Black Rhinoceros Or Hook-lipped Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)

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Black Rhinoceros Or Hook-lipped Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
Black Rhinoceros Or Hook-lipped Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)

Lewa Downs
Kenya
East Africa

From small to large.

Black rhinos are browsers that get most of their sustenance from eating trees and bushes. They use their lips to pluck leaves and fruit from the branches.

Except for females and their offspring, black rhinos are solitary. Females reproduce only every two and a half to five years. Their single calf does not live on its own until it is about three years old.

Black rhinos feed at night and during the gloaming hours of dawn and dusk. Under the hot African sun, they take cover by lying in the shade. Rhinos are also wallowers. They often find a suitable water hole and roll in its mud, coating their skin with a natural bug repellent and sun block. Rhinos have sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell.

Black rhinos boast two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches (eight centimeters) a year and have been known to grow up to five feet (one and a half meters) long. Females use their horns to protect their young, while males use them to battle attackers.

The black rhino once roamed most of sub-Saharan Africa but today is on the verge of extinction due to poaching fueled by commercial demand.

The black rhinoceros is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List and is listed on Appendix I of CITES. More than 6,400 black rhinos are left. For conservancies, national and private reserves that hold any rhino, the key to ensuring the survival of their populations is the provision of adequate security. – Wikipedia

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Taken on: January 14, 2015
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