Now I think this sounds fishy - surely the inscription would mention a detail like that? - but that's just me. Is this too fringe? Glynis Ridley, in Clara's Grand Tour, theorizes that the woodcut is an accurate depiction - of the Rhino in modified horse armour! She thinks the beast was suited up as part of the presentation to the Pope, and that Dürer actually got a look at it. I've seen multiple sources including this one stressing the importance of Conrad_Gesner's republishing-slash-plagiarism of the woodcut, by way of it becoming so well known. 2 I can't figure out how to add this, maybe someone else could.
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