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"i HOPE THESE ANIMALS DON'T GET WIPED OUT I FILL SO SORRY FOR THE ANIMALS AND THE PEOPLE THAT CARE FOR THEM"
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Javan Rhinoceros
Rare, mysterious, and highly threatened
Common Name: Javan rhinoceros, lesser one-horned rhino; Rhinocéros de la Sonde (Fr); Rinoceronte de Java(Sp) ...
The Javan rhinoceros ("rhino") weighs 1500 - 2000 kg (3200 - 4400 lb). It has one horn and prominent folds in the skin, similar to the . The Javan rhino prefers tall grass and reed beds in lowland rain forests.
The Javan rhinoceros inhabits dense rainforests with mud wallows and plenty of water, showing a preference for low-lying sites (2).
Biology – Javan rhinoceros ...
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No more than 60 of these swamp-dwelling Asian rhinos exist
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Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
Sumatran rhino
The Critically Endangered Sumatran rhino is the smallest rhino species and the only Asian rhino with two horns. ...
- Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus). of danger; or by beating him out of the jungle with a line of elephants, the guns being stationed at the points where he is most likely to break cover.
The skin of the Javan Rhinoceros forms heavy folds, and looks a bit like armour. Males have one horn, about 25cm long, and females have a small horn or none at all. The Javan Rhinoceros is about 165 cm tall and weighs about 900-2,000 kilos.
sondaicus the Javan rhinoceros
Dicerohinus the two or double-horned Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerohinus sumatrensis
Ceratotherium the white or square-lipped rhinoceros with two subspecies
C. simum simum the southern white rhinoceros
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The armour-like hide is thick and tough with many folds, and large, raised bumps on the neck, shoulders and flanks - a characteristic which differentiates it from the closely related Javan rhinoceros.
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March 2009... Time and space are running out for the Javan rhinoceros, possibly the most endangered mammal in the world... more ...
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.
Both African species and the Sumatran Rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan Rhinoceros have a single horn. Rhinoceros have acute hearing and sense of smell, but poor eyesight. Most live to be about 60 years old or more.
The solitary and smaller Javan rhinoceros, R. sondaicus, is nearly extinct. The Sumatran rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, also critically endangered, is the only rhinoceros with a hairy coat and the only Asian species with two horns.
 See also: Rhinoceros, Rhino, Indian Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Black rhinoceros
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