Indian Rhinoceros

Beauty Of Animal | Indian Rhinoceros | The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is also called one-horned rhinoceros greater one-horned rhinoceros and Asian and belongs to the family Rhinocerotidae. . This species is also heavily built the second largest living rhinoceros, behind only the White Rhinoceros. Males average head and body length of 368-380 cm (12.07 to 12.5 ft) with a shoulder height of 170-185 cm (5.6 to 6.07 feet) while women have an average head and body length of 310-340 cm (10.2 to 11.2 feet) and have a shoulder height of 147-173 cm (4.82 to 5.68 feet). Females weigh about 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) on average, men and normally weigh 2000-2130 kg (4400-4700 lb). Rhino horn is present in individual men and women, but not on newborn young. . Males develop a thick neck-folds

This huge rhinoceros is found in the Terai at the foot of the Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhotan.The Indian rhinoceros forms a variety of social groups. Only adult males in general, except for mating and fighting. Mainly adult females without calves only when, Subadult males and females form groups consistent as well. Young women are a little less social than males. Groups of up to 10 Rhinos gather in wallows-typically with a dominant male and female calves, but no subadult males.

The Indian rhinoceros makes a wide variety of vocalizations. Like all Rhinos, the Indian rhinoceros often defecates near other large leaf piles. The Indian Rhino has pedal scent glands are used to mark their presence on the rhino latrines. In totals, Indian Rhinos are often friendly. . Unlike African Rhinos, the Indian Rhino fights with his incisors, rather than horns.

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Black Rhinoceros

 

Beauty Of Animal | Black Rhinoceros | The name black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is chosen to distinguish this species from the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). This can be confusing, because the two species actually differ according to color. There are four subspecies of black rhino: South-central (Diceros bicornis minor), the most numerous, which once ranged from central Tanzania south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to northern and eastern South Africa, South west (Diceros bicornis bicornis) which are better adapted to arid and semi-arid savannas of Namibia, southern Angola, western Botswana and western South Africa, East African (Diceros bicornis michaeli), mainly in Tanzania ; and West African (Diceros bicornis longipes) which was declared extinct in November 2011. The native name Keitloa Tswanan be used to describe the diversity of South African black rhino in the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.

The adult black rhinoceros stands 150-175 cm (59-69 in) high at the shoulder and from 3.5 to 3.9 m (11-13 ft) long. An adult weighs from 850 to 1600 kg (1,900 to 3,500 lb), exceptionally to 1800 kg (4,000 lb), with women less than men. Two horns on the skull are made of keratin with the larger front horn typically 50 cm long, exceptionally up to 140 cm. Sometimes, the third smaller horn may develop. The black rhino is much smaller than the white rhino, and has a pointed mouth, which they use to grasp leaves and twigs when feeding. During the second half of the 20th century their numbers are severely reduced from an estimated 70 000 in the late 1960s to 2410 only in 1995

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White Rhinoceros

Beauty Of Animal | White Rhinoceros | The white or square-lipped rhinoceros rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of five species of rhinoceros that still exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhino includes two subspecies: the southern white rhino, with an estimated 17,460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 (IUCN 2008), and rarer northern white rhino lot. The northern subspecies has a very small remnant, all in captivity

The white rhinoceros is the largest of the five species of rhinoceros and the world's largest land mammals after the three species of elephant. [16] It has a massive body and large head, short neck and broad chest. The head and body length is 3.7 to 4 m (12-13 ft) in men and from 3.4 to 3.65 m (11 to 12.0 feet) in women, with the tail adding another 70 cm (28 in.) and shoulder height is 1.7 to 1.85 m (5 ft 7 in to 6 ft 0.8) are in men and from 1.6 to 1.77 (5 ft 3 in to 5 ft 10 in) in the female. The animals ranged in weight from 1360 to 3630 typically kg (3,000 to 8,000 pounds).

The male, with an average of 2,300 kg (5,100 lb) heavier than females, averaging 1,700 kg (3,700 lb). The largest recorded white rhinoceros was about 4,500 kg (9900 pounds). On its snout it has two horn-like growths, one behind the other. These are made of keratin solid, they differ from the horns of bovids (cows and their relatives), who keratin with a bony core, antlers and of solid bone. The front horn is larger and averages 90 cm (35 in.) long, reaching as much as 150 cm (59 in).

The white rhinoceros also includes prominent hump on the back of his neck. Each of the four feet Stumpy has three toes. The body color ranges from yellowish brown to slate gray. His hair is just the ears and tail edges hedge. White rhinos have distinctive wide, straight mouth that is used for grazing. Ears can move independently to raise sounds but it depends above all on smell. The olfactory passages which are responsible for the smell more than the whole brain. The white rhinoceros the nostrils set on the widest of any land animal.

White rhinoceroses are found in grassland and savannah habitat. Grass herbivore browsers, preferring the shortest grains, the white rhinoceros is one of the most pure browsers. Drinking water twice a day if available, but if dry conditions can live four or five days without water. He spends about half the day eating, one third resting, and the rest of the day doing various other things. White rhinoceroses, as all species of rhino, love wallowing in mudholes to cool down.White rhinoceroses produce sounds that include contact blown call, grunts and snorts during courtship, squeals of distress, and deep bellows or growls when threatened. Threat displays (in males mostly) include dried corn on the ground and his head low posture with ears back, along with snarl threats and shrieking if attacked. The white rhinoceros is fast and agile and can run 50 km / h (31 mph).

 

White rhinoceroses live in accidents or up to 14 herds of animals (usually mostly female). Sub-adult males will congregate, often in conjunction with an adult female. Bulls Most adults only. Bulls dominant marking their territory with urine and faeces. The leaves are placed in well defined piles. It can be between 20 and 30 of these piles to alert passing rhinoceroses it its territory. Another way of marking their territory in their horns on bushes or dry ground and scrapes with its feet before urine spraying. They do this about 10 times an hour while patrolling territory. The same ritual as urine marking except without spraying is also commonly used. The territorial male will scrape-mark every 30 m (98 ft) or less around its territory boundary. Subordinate Legislation men do not identify territory. The most serious fights break out over mating rights relating to a female. Female territory is overlapped extensively and are not protected.

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Hippopotamus

Beauty Of Animal | Hippopotamus | The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus.) After the elephant, the hippotamus is the largest land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl, despite being considerably shorter than the giraffe.

 

The hippopotamus is semi-aquatic, inhabiting rivers, lakes and West African mangrove swamps  where territorial bulls preside over a stretch of river and groups of 5 to 30 females and young. During the day they remain cool by staying in the water or mud; reproduction and childbirth both occur in water. They emerge at dusk to graze on grass. While hippopotamuses rest near each other in the water, grazing is a solitary activity and hippos are not territorial on land.Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about 55 million years ago. The common ancestor of whales and hippos split from other even-toed ungulates around 60 million years ago. The earliest known hippopotamus fossils, belonging to the genus Kenyapotamus in Africa, date to around 16 million years ago.

The hippopotamus is recognizable by its barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth and teeth, nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size. It is the third largest land mammal by weight (between 1½ and 3 tonnes), behind the white rhinoceros (1½ to 3½ tonnes) and the three species of elephant (3 to 9 tonnes). The hippopotamus is one of the largest quadrupeds (four legged mammals). Despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human. Hippos have been clocked at 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances. The hippopotamus is one of the most aggressive creatures in the world and is often regarded as one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. There are an estimated 125,000 to 150,000 hippos throughout Sub-Saharan Africa; Zambia (40,000) and Tanzania (20,000–30,000) possess the largest populations. They are still threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their meat and ivory canine teeth.

 

 

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