Black Rhinoceros
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Scientific name: Diceros bicornis
Family: RHINOCEROTIDAE
Order: PERISSODACTYLA
Class: MAMMALIA ...
Black Rhinoceros
Black rhinoceros, viewed head-on
Geographical Range
Africa, from Kenya to the Cape
Habitat
Mountain rain forests to arid scrublands
Scientific Name
Diceros bicornis
Conservation Status
Critically endangered ...
Black Rhinoceros
Diceros bicornis
Description - Other Names - Distribution - Taxonomy ...
Black Rhinoceros Facts
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Black Rhinoceros - Diceros bicornis.
The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), also known as the hooked-lipped rhinoceros, is one of five living species of rhinos.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Size: Height at shoulder, 4.
Black rhinoceros
Black rhinoceroses are about the same height at the shoulder as African buffalos. However, they are twice as heavy. Despite their weight, they are nimble on their feet, and can run at 50kph and make sharp turns at a gallop.
Eastern black rhinoceroses stand up to 12 feet long and five feet high at the shoulder. They weigh up to 3,000 pounds. This species posses two horns made up of fibrous keratin. The forward is horn larger—up to 28 inches.
Animal Info - Black Rhinoceros
(Other Names: Browse Rhinoceros, Hooked-lipped Rhinoceros, Kifaru, Prehensile-lipped Rhinoceros, Rhinocéros Noir, Rinoceronte Negro)
Diceros bicornis ...
Schenkel R. and L. Schenkel-Halliger. Mammalia depicta: Ecology and Behavior of the Black Rhinoceros. Berlin: Verlag, Paul, and Parey, 1969.
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Black Rhinoceros
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Habitat: Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Location: Eastern, central, western and southern Africa
Population: Approximately 3,725 individuals ...
Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
The black rhinoceros is the most well known of the five living rhinoceros species, with its aggressive reputation and highly publicised... More 27 Images 12 Videos ...
Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
The black rhinoceros is classified as a member of the order Perissodactyla (Odd-Toed Hoofed Mammals) and is a member of the family Rhinocerotidae.
Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
White rhino
Also known as the square-lipped rhinoceros, white rhinos have a squared (not pointed) upper lip and almost no hair. ...
Black Rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis
White Rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum
Indian Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis
Javan Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus
Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ...
The black rhinoceros is a herbivorous browser that eats leafy plants, branches, shoots, thorny wood bushes and fruit. Their diet helps to reduce the amount of woody plants which results in more grasses growing for the benefit of other animals.
The Black Rhinoceros is smaller than the White Rhinoceros. It is a browser, which means it eats leaves of trees and shrubs.
Probably called Black Rhinoceros to differentiate it from the White Rhinoceros. It is likely that "white" is a misunderstanding of the Afrikaans word "weit" (wide, as in "wide-lipped"). Skin coloration between the two species is the same.
The black rhinoceros (Rhinoceros (Diceros) bicornis) is the smaller of the two, and has a pointed prehensile upper lip.
Factors influencing the population performance of the black rhinoceros in Zululand: towards improved management on a national basis. Unpubl. Mimeograph.
Emslie, R & Brooks, M, 1999. African Rhino. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan.
The black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, of E and S Africa, has declined in numbers from about 65,000 in 1970 to 3,600 in 2004 (a total that represents an increase from the mid-1990s low of 2,400); ...
We lucked upon a pair of black rhinoceros also (one is mostly hidden behind bushes on the right). They took one look at us and dashed away, unlike the white rhinos that had strolled by apparently oblivious to our presence.
2011 was also the year when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared one of four black rhinoceros subspecies-the western black rhinoceros-to have gone extinct in West Africa.
Tribe three - African species: The two African species, the White Rhinoceros and the Black Rhinoceros, diverged during the early Pliocene ...
This is one of the main distinguishing characteristics between white rhinoceroses from black rhinoceroses. Black rhinoceroses have a pointed lip, while white rhinoceros have a broad and wide lip used for grazing.
The African species are the white and black rhinoceroses. Both species have two horns. Asian rhinos include the Indian (or great one-horned rhinoceros) and the Javan, each with one horn, and the Sumatran, which has two.
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 See also: Rhinoceros, Rhino, White Rhinoceros, Elephant, Ceratotherium
  
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