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  2. Black rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    The species was first named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema naturae in 1758. The name means "double-horned rhinoceros". There is some confusion about what exactly Linnaeus conceived under this name as this species was probably based upon the skull of a single-horned Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), with a second horn artificially added by the ...

  3. Western black rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    The western black rhino emerged about seven to eight million years ago. It was a sub-species of the black rhino. For much of the 20th century, its population was the highest out of all of the rhino species, at almost 850,000 individuals. There was a 96% population decline in black rhinos, including the western black rhino, between 1970 and 1992.

  4. Transparency (graphic) - Wikipedia

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    GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...

  5. South-central black rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    The south-central black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis minor), also known as the south-central hook-lipped rhinoceros or the lesser black rhino, is a subspecies of the black rhinoceros. In keeping with the rules of zoological nomenclature, the south-central black rhinoceros should be known as Diceros bicornis keitloa (Smith, 1836), a nomen novum. [3]

  6. Dynastinae - Wikipedia

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    Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – include Hercules beetles , unicorn beetles or horn beetles .

  7. Eastern black rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    As the black rhinoceros population is extirpated in most of these areas, the status of the latter subspecies is unclear. Some animals of the Kenyan population may belong to it. These black rhinos were examined by Benson and others through the Kenya Wildlife Service and had an article published by the African Journal of Ecology (Benson, 1, 791).

  8. Gyrostigma rhinocerontis - Wikipedia

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    Gyrostigma rhinocerontis (also known as the Rhinoceros stomach botfly) is the largest fly species known in Africa. It is a parasite of the black rhinoceros and the white rhinoceros . Because the fly depends on the rhinoceros for reproduction, its numbers declined steeply as the black and white rhinos faced extinction.

  9. Digital Geometric Kernel - Wikipedia

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    Pure geometric functions can be used in background without creating a window. Samples include C#, Visual Basic (.NET), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), C++, and Pascal (Delphi) versions. The application programming interface is based on an interface (abstract class) hierarchy. DG Kernel relies on three major third party components: