Where do rhinos live? Detailed answer

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Where do rhinoceroses live?

Today, there are five different types of rhinoceros, of which two - white rhinoceros and black - live in Africa. Both species have two horns. The remaining three species are found in Asia. The Indian and Javanese rhinos have one horn each. A rhinoceros from Sumatra has two.

The bodies of rhinos are powerful, heavy, they usually move very slowly. They pay very little attention to what is happening around them, because they do not perceive other animals as potential food. They feed only on grass and other green plants. These powerful creatures are usually very calm and unsociable. But being forced to defend itself, the rhinoceros becomes very ferocious and dangerous. He can reach speeds of up to fifty kilometers per hour when he attacks the enemy, tilting forward his terrible head with pointed crooked horns.

The smallest rhinoceros, the Sumatran, usually weighs less than a ton and is about one meter tall at the shoulder. The largest rhinoceros, the white African, weighs three and a half tons or more, and is about two meters tall. The massive body of the rhinoceros rests on four relatively short legs. Each foot has three toes. These are ungulates that are relatives of horses.

The horn of some species of rhinoceros is very long: the largest of those that could be measured was more than one and a half meters. There are one or two horns, depending on the type of animal. The first horn is located above or slightly behind the nostrils, the second - just behind the first, somewhere at eye level. The horn in its structure is a bun and strongly compressed hard hair. The rest of the body, except for the area near the ears and the tip of the tail, is hairless. Rhino skin is tough and thick.

Rhinos usually roam the savannah and feed on their own, but sometimes you can meet a rhinoceros family. The female gives birth to only one cub at a time. The cub is born about eighteen months after the mating season and is under the care of the mother for several years. In captivity, rhinos live up to about fifty years of age.

Author: Likum A.

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