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A rhinoceros (/ r aɪ ˈ n ɒ s ər ə s / ry-NOSS-ə-rəss; from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose' and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; [1] pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family ...
The Javan rhino is the most endangered of the five species. It is also one of the rarest large mammals in the world . Javan rhinos live in dense jungles and tend to be shy of humans.
It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 16,803 wild-living animals, [3] and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left ...
Rhinoceros is a genus comprising one-horned rhinoceroses. This scientific name was proposed by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. [ 1 ] The genus contains two species, the Indian rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicornis ) and the Javan rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros sondaicus ).
Three perissodactyl species (clockwise from left): plains zebra (Equus quagga), Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Perissodactyla is an order of placental mammals composed of odd-toed ungulates – hooved animals which bear weight on one or three of their five toes with the other toes either ...
Rhinoceros are endangered species with fewer than 30,000 living in the wild today. At the start of the 20th century, there were more than 500,000. Three species of rhino – black, Javan and ...
Pregnancy of the female rhinos was monitored weekly. [22] Rhinoceros gestation takes 16 to 18 months, [23] so in January 2014 the Conservancy considered Najin not pregnant, and a male southern white rhino from Lewa Wildlife Conservancy was put to Najin and Fatu enclosure in Ol Pejeta to at least intercross the subspecies. To achieve this, both ...
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species ...