Rhinoceros have been on earth for more than 50 milion
years!
There are 5 species of rhinoceros: Black, White, Sumatran, Jave, India.
The world population is declining, and was estimated at 14,000 animals in
1997. Is the Rhinocéros dangerous ?
Clic to listen the Rhinoceros
No not really, but it can be dangerous in some particular
situations.
A Black Rhino can weigh more than 1000kg and a White Rhino,
with two horns, as much as 2,000 kg. If such heavy animals crash
into you running at 40kmh they can do a lot of damage !
Personally I am not afraid of the rhino but I am afraid
of the Buffalo !
Here are Black Rhinoceros" Diceros Bicornis " Diceros in Greek = lip narrowed or narrow
bicornis in Latin = two horns
Population in Kenya = approximately 424 in Kenya and 46 in Tanzania in 1997
the female is mature between the age from 5 to 7 years and can have a calf
cup each
3 to 4 years on average. The male, rather solitary, is mature between 7 to
10 years.
Black Rhino nourished of on grass and young shrubs can reach
a weight from 850 to 1350 kg.
Rhinocéros lives on average between 40 and 60 years.
Here at the edge of the lake Nakuru in Kenya, the Rhino
mom and her "baby"
The lake Nakuru is a magic place where there are present more than one million
Flamingoes, when the level of water is not too low, if not they go on the
lake Bogoria, a few kilometers further. Small Rhinoceros arenot apprehensive
and rather easily in its environment accepts us.
The gestation of the Rhino mom lasts from 15 to 16
month.
The starling also is not afraid of the rhino and walks on their backs,
or beside the rhinos which spend most of their time grazing
on the grass and small shrubs of the savanna.
The legend of the name of Rhinoceros White or
Blacks ?
Since the top of the page, all pictures have been of
black Rhinoceros
and those which follow are white !
Here of Rhinoceros White " Ceratotherium Simum
" Cerato into Greek = Horn
therium into Greek = Wild beast
Simum into Greek = flat Nose
Population in Kenya = approximately 137 in Kenya and 0 in Tanzania in 1997
the female is mature between the age from 6 to 7 years and can have a calf
each
2 to 3 years on average. The male, rather solitary, is mature between 10 to
12 years
Rhinoceros lives on average between 40 and 60 years
white Rhinoceros is much larger than the black since it can
reach 2200 kg. It eats only grass.
The legend of the name of Rhinoceros
There is very a long time Rhinoceros was called mouth
weit, in English
" stops broad " who became with the wire of the time "wide" which
is a synonym, and
then " White " by deformation, which wants to say " White " and here how all
Rhinos
became of the " Rhinos white " where as they are gray dark. When one discovered
a small difference on the level of the upper lip which is broader on White
for it grazes only grass, one decided to call that with narrow lip " Black
" for
the color of his ground, but also to make a distinction with white Rhinoceros.
Personally, with the color, I do not make the distinction between the Black
and White
I look at only if the upper lip is broad.
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