![]() ![]() While eating aquatic plants they submerge there entire head and tear the plant out by its roots! My particular Rhino has a long lip that it uses a little like an elephant uses its trunk. Western Black Rhinos are herbivores meaning that they eat only plants so there diet consists of grass, fruit ,leaves, branches, aquatic plants, and farmers crops. Also the dry season stretches from April through October. The rainy season starts in November and goes until March. It gets especially cold at night with temperatures dropping to almost 0 Fahrenheit. June is the coolest month in eastern and southern Africa. Western Black Rhinos Horns actually have two horns a bigger horn close to there snout and a smaller one a little farther back.ĥ CLIMATE Western Black Rhinos live in a climate that varies from 70 degrees to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. ![]() They have no other markings and are usually solid grey. Even though the Western Black Rhino’s name suggests that its skin color is black but it is not it is actually grey. ![]() ![]() In other words about 2 and ½ tons of rhinoceros. The Western Black Rhino is about 4.5 to 6 feet high and weigh about 1,760 to 3,080 pounds. Humans have definitely impacted my animal: there are not even one rhino in captivity. People in China prize the ivory for its supposed medical uses. There horn is considered a very valuable kind of ivory and is worth twice the amount of gold. Poachers (people who kill animals illegally) shot the Western Black Rhino and only took the horn! Also wealthy business men some times take trips to Africa and go on hunting trips just to shoot this huge beast and mount its head on a wall in there house! Disgusting but true. The Western Black Rhinoceros (Diceros Bicornis Longipes) are native to eastern and southern Africa, or they used to because humans killed them off. My animal is a fairly hardy and is not an animal that lives 10 weeks and dies it lives to be very old. My power point report on western black rhinoceros ByĢ Introduction My Power Point is on a mammal called the Western Black Rhino it is a very interesting animal and I picked it because, well I tell about that on the next slide. I'm hoping it's not true, but hearing rumors that the Western Black Rhino has been declared extinct due to horn poachers. It makes our rhino keepers’ job much easier.Presentation on theme: "My power point report on western black rhinoceros"- Presentation transcript:ġ My power point report on western black rhinoceros Rhinos choose a spot and always poo there, much like a toilet. The gestation period, or pregnancy, of a rhino is 15 to 16 months.Ī midden is a pile of rhino poo. Three of these are critically endangered – the black rhino, the Sumatran and the Javan.īlack rhinos live in grassland, scrubland and bushes. Indian rhino (also known as the greater one-horned rhino).They are listed below in order of size, starting with the biggest: Baby rhinos make squealing and screeching sounds. Rhinos make grunting and sniffing noises. It’s possible the word ‘white’ in white rhino was wrongly translated from the Dutch word for wide (‘wijd’), describing its mouth. The front horn is the largest at about 50cm long, but some have reached up to 140cm.īlack rhinos, white rhinos, it doesn’t matter. The black, white and Sumatran rhino has two horns. Black rhino can be very aggressive and will charge at anything that scares them.Īn adult black rhino weighs between 8 kilograms. They eat leafy plants, branches, shoots, bushes and fruit. Black rhinos are the third biggest of the five types of rhino.As the saying goes, rhinos do have thick skin, but they can still get sun burnt.Black rhinos have a ‘prehensile’, meaning hooked, lip for pulling leaves off branches.‘Rhino’ means ‘nose’ and ‘ceros’ means ‘horn’. The biggest danger to rhinos is poaching, or being killed for their horn. You can find out more about how we’re helping black rhino conservation and find out about our new baby boy born in January 2020. The Eastern black rhino is seriously at risk of becoming extinct. They love rolling in the mud and charging around. They live in our Kifaru Reserve enclosure. They usually live between 35 and 50 years, and most black rhinos live in East Africa, in Tanzania. They also have a strong sense of smell and this is what they use most to make sense of what’s around them. They can swivel their cone shaped ears to pick up on the tiniest of sounds. Black rhinos have bad eyesight but they have excellent hearing. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |