Black rhinoceros

Black rhinoceros

Black rhinoceros is one of the most famous rhinoceros species. The rhinoceros is mainly found in the continent of Africa, and although the name is black on the rhinoceros, its color is often gray.

The black rhinoceros lives on the continent of Africa, particularly in Central and Eastern Africa, in countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Despite the number of countries, the rhinoceros is very few and far apart.

Black rhinoceros is the largest species of rhinoceros with a height of 1.5 meters and a length of 3.3 - 3.6 meters and a black rhino weight of 800-1400 kg. The black rhinoceros has two horns of strong keratin that help to defend itself and cut The branches and plants and one of these centuries longer than the other up to 60 cm or more and those centuries used in ancient treatment of some diseases, and the color of the skin of the rhinoceros is often gray, and has a high lip pointed and rough to help in carrying and eating branches and leaves, The average age of Rhino ranges from 45 to 50 years.

The rhinoceros is a herbaceous animal that never changes its diet. The rhinoceros lives near the densely populated areas where it feeds on leaves, flowers, buds, fruits, berries and roots. The rhinoceros starts eating at night and within hours. The first day of the day because of the heat of the hot sun during the day, where the rhino is looking for a suitable water hole where the skin is stained with mud, which is a coating of his skin against the strong sun.

Rhino is a solitary animal that loves to live alone and does not exist in pairs except at the time of reproduction, which has no specific date during the year. A female rhino gives birth to one calf each time after a gestation period of more than one year. For about two years so he can rely on himself in life and often remain with his small child until he gives birth to another calf and then starts to rely on himself, and reaches the female black rhinoceros to the stage of sexual maturity after about 5 - 7 years and give birth once in the period between 2 - 4 years .

The black rhinoceros has a relatively weak view and therefore relies heavily on the senses of hearing and smell to detect what is happening around it, especially predators.

Due to the size of the large rhinoceros, there are many life-threatening threats only from the predatory lion that attacks the tiny rhinoceros and the physically weak rhinoceros, and humans pose the greatest threat to the black rhinoceros.

Black rhinoceros is now an endangered animal and there are only a few in the wild, but reports suggest that the numbers of the rhinoceros have begun to increase as a result of continued conservation efforts.