Black Rhinoceros An Endangered Mammal By Will Grade 5 • January 30, 2014
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Table of Contents Introduction
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Names
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Description
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Habitat
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Range and Population
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Threats
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Solutions
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Introduction What charges at 35 miles per hour, with two long horns that can puncture holes in metal, and also weighs one and a half tons? This animal charges at basically everything that moves and blocks it from moving forward. This animal is endangered, But It has basically only one predator: Humans. This animal is so powerful sometimes it kills the people trying to kill it! There are just a few types of guns that are powerful enough to kill this huge animal with one shot.
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Names This creature s common name is black rhinoceros (often shortened to black rhino). Its scientiďŹ c name is diceros bicornis, which means rhinoceros two-horn. The Black Rhinoceros is also called the hooklipped rhinoceros.
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Description The black rhinoceros has two horns on its nose. The one http://petkaria.com/black-rhino/10/african-black-rhino-wallpaper/
closest to the nostrils is the longest horn. It can grow from two feet to four feet long. The longest black rhinoceros horn ever recorded was 4.9 feet long. The black rhinoceros has a triangular shaped pair of lips which it uses to curl around its food and bring it into the mouth. Its ears, look like small radar dishes with hair on the ends. The black rhinoceros name makes it sound like it should be black. It is actually grey with a little brown hair and a little black on the feet. The black rhinoceros can grow to 2,860 pounds. A closely related species is the white rhinoceros. The Black Rhinoceros has three toes. The gestation period is about one year and four months (sixteen months). The black rhinoceros can be born during any season. A calf has to be born in a certain place where there is shelter and cover (ideally a cave). When born, a calf is on its feet within minutes of birth. Then it stays with its mother for about 3 years While it grows a horn so it can live out in the wild.
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Habitat A black rhinoceros needs home ranges, two horns, food, water, and sleep for survival. A black rhinoceros can take a lot of heat because it sleeps for the hot parts of the day. A home range is the area in a circle that they urinate around. The black rhinoceros has a basic appetite of wood (from living trees) and branches. It eats ďŹ fty (50) pounds a day! Then it sleeps in the mud for the hot part of the day.
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Range and Population The black rhinoceros lives mostly in eastern Africa. There are almost no black rhinoceros living in jungles. They live more closely to edges of wooded areas and bush. There are fewer than one thousand nine-hundred (1,900) black rhinoceros living today.
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Threats The black rhinoceros is poached for its horn for use as medicine or dagger handles. The body is hunted for the meat. A pound of Black Rhinoceros meat in the black market can cost (in United States currency) thirteen thousand dollars ($13,000)! That is more than a pound of gold! The medicine that the horn is made into is made for a fever, but it does not even take the fever away. It simply brings the temperature down.
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Solutions One way for the black rhinoceros coming back is associations hiring more game wardens. Governments can send police through towns to see if there are any people secretly selling Black Rhino products. Or reserve more areas that nobody can destroy.
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Conclusion From reading this report you should probably know that the black rhinoceros is an endangered species, but just because it is endangered does not mean that it is doomed and will become extinct. There is hope. This is what could happen: The associations could kick in the after-burners and the black rhinoceros could come back and stop being endangered. The worst that could happen is that the poachers would kill Black Rhinoceros to extinction. A middle path that could happen is that they could make a small comeback and there could be a sustainable amount (about 5,000 black rhinoceros). another bad possibility that could happen is that the Black Rhinoceros gets a very small population number and it could be easy for a decease to bring them to extinction in a few months (the small population number would be around 500). So now you know some of the possibilities that could happen. Which do you think will happen?
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