The gestation period is 15 – 16 months the single calf weighs about 35 – 50 kg at birth, and can follow its mother around after just three days. Mating does not have a seasonal pattern but births tend to be towards the end of the rainy season in drier environments. The adults are solitary in nature, coming together only for mating. Black Rhinoceros also do not have a distinguishing shoulder hump like the White Rhinoceros. The Black Rhinoceros can also be recognized from the White Rhinoceros by its smaller skull and ears and its more pronounced forehead. White Rhinoceros have square lips used for grazing grass. The Black Rhinoceros is much smaller than the White Rhinoceros, and has a pointed, prehensile upper lip, which they use to grasp leaves and twigs when feeding.
WHERE DOES BLACK RHINOCEROS LIVE SKIN
Skin color depends more on local soil conditions and their wallowing behavior than anything else, so many black rhinos are typically not truly black in colour. Occasionally, a third smaller horn may develop. Two horns on the skull are made of keratin with the larger front horn typically 50 cm long, exceptionally up to 140 cm. An adult weighs from 800 to 1400 kg (1,760 to 3,080 lb), exceptionally to 1820 kg (4,000 lb), with the females being smaller than the males. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) announced on 7 July 2006 that the West African Black Rhinoceros subspecies ( Diceros bicornis longipes) has been tentatively declared as extinct.Īn adult Black Rhinoceros stands 143 – 160 cm (56-63 inches) high at the shoulder and is 2.86-3.05 m (9.3-10 feet) in length. The word "White" in the name "White Rhinoceros" deriving from the Afrikaans word for "wide" rather than the colour white. This is very misleading, as those two species are not really distinguishable by colour. The name of the species was chosen to distinguish it from the White Rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum). A poaching wave in the 1970's and 1980's wiped out over 96% of the Black Rhino populations across Africa.
Contrary to popular opinion, only small amounts of the horns are consumed as an aphrodisiac. Like all species of rhinoceros, it is on the endangered species list due to excessive poaching for their horns, which are mostly used in dagger handles as a symbol of wealth in many countries, and as a febrifuge in Chinese traditional medicine.
Although the Rhino is referred to as a "Black" creature, it is actually more of a grey-white colour in appearance. The Black Rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis also colloquially Black Rhino is a mammal in the order Perissodactyla, native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
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