Indian Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros unicornis
Creating folds that look like armor, the skin of the Indian rhinoceros is a brownish-gray hue with raised wart-like bumps on the neck, shoulders, and legs.
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Indian rhinoceros
Taxonomy Rhinoceros unicornis [Linnaeus, 1758]. Citation: Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56. Type locality: India, Assam Terai.
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Indian Rhinoceroses are vulnerable to sunburn.By wallowing in mud, they protect their skin from the sun.
The first weeks after giving birth, mother rhinos produce 5 - 7 gallons of milk daily.
Indian Rhinoceros Range
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Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: 40 years Size: Length, 12.
The Indian rhinoceros is a success story in rhino conservation. Indian rhinoceroses numbered fewer than 200 animals in the early part of the 1900s. With strict protection from Indian and Nepalese governments, the number has climbed over 2 000.
Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoceroses have a formidable appearance. The folded skin looks like a suit of armour enhanced by a single half metre horn on its nose. Courtships are aggressive with chasing and fighting common.
Greater Indian Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros unicornis
Also Called: Greater Asian Rhinoceros
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The Indian rhinoceros has one horn (both male and female), and its skin has loose folds and rivet-like knobs which make it appear armored. A female Indian rhino weighs about 1600 kg (3500 lb), while a male weighs about 2200 kg (4800 lb).
Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is the largest of the Asian rhinos. It has a single horn, which can be as long as 53... More 22 Images 13 Videos ...
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Habitat: Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Location: Southern Asia, northern margin of the Indian subcontinent adjacent to the southern slope of the Himalayas ...
Great Indian rhinoceros
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Vulnerable; CITES: Appendix l
Himalayan tahr ...
Indian Rhinoceros (R. unicornis) Â- Javan Rhinoceros (R. sondaicus)
Dicerorhinus
Sumatran Rhinoceros (D. sumatrensis) ...
The Indian Rhinoceros is about 1.7 metres tall and about 3.5 m long. Although it can be taller than the African White Rhinoceros, it is not as heavy. An Indian Rhinoceros weighs up to about 2,500 kg. It has one horn, about 30 centimetres long.
Young Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis); Royal Chitwan National Park, Terai Arc Landscape, Nepal.
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The Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, is the second largest rhinoceros and can weigh over 2 tons (1,820 kg).
unicornis the Indian rhinoceros
Rhinoceros the single-horned rhinoceros with two species
R. unicornis the Indian rhinoceros
R. sondaicus the Javan rhinoceros
Dicerohinus the two or double-horned Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerohinus sumatrensis ...
Indian Rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicornis )
Jaguar ( Penthera onca )
Killer Whale ( Orcinus orca )
Koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus )
Lasser Panda ( Ailurus fulgens )
Leopard ( Panthera pardus )
Lion ( Panthera Leo )
Llama ( Lama glama ) ...
Indian Rhinoceros (Asia) (Rhinoceros unicornis)
Population: 2,500 Status: Vulnerable Species
Sumatran Rhinoceros (Southeast Asia; Indonesia) (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
Population: 300 or fewer. Status: Critically Endangered Species ...
Confrontations with Indian rhinoceros probably very rare in wild, but have occurred with domestic elephants that have been ridden into rhino's territory
Mutualistic relationship with some species of birds, such as egrets and piapiac.
The common hippopotamus is the second largest living land animal, only rivalled by the great Indian rhinoceros (the elephant is the largest). Its name means 'river horse' and the hippo spends most of its time in water.
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Tribe two - Rhinocerotini: There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the endangered Indian Rhinoceros and the critically endangered Javan Rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about
10 million years ago.
From Megatherium these animals, which rivalled the Indian rhinoceros in bulk, differ in the shape of their cheek-teeth; these (five above and four below) being much smaller, with an ovate section, and a cupped instead of a ridged crown-surface, ...
In rare cases tigers attack Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus), Indian elephants (Elephas maximus), and young Indian rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis).
 See also: Rhinoceros, Rhino, Javan rhinoceros, Elephant, Tiger
  
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