ENDANGERED ANIMAL : RHINOCEROS
Do you know about rhinoceros? Do you have
heard about this animal? And did you know that this animal is listed in
endangered animal in the world? Let’s together we explore about this animal.
The rhinoceros is in a family of
Rhinocerotidae. It is include in some of the largest living land mammal. The
rhinoceros mostly living at Africa and Asia. There are type of rhinoceros based
on their habitat. In Africa, there have two different rhinoceros, it is black
and white rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis ). Meanwhile, in Asia, the
rhinoceros called the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros
unicornis),
Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) and Javan rhinoceros(Rhinoceros
sondaicus). Today
, the amount of population all the rhinoceros species combined is probably less
than 25,000 species.
Basically, the rhino have one
or two horns on the
upper surface of the snout, these horns are not true but are composed of
keratin, a fibrous protein found in hair. Rhinoceroses have thick skin, which
forms plate like folds especially at the shoulders and thighs. All rhinos are grey
or brown in colour but different with the white rhinoceros, which it skin paler
than others. Besides, most rhinoceros are solitary, it is individuals avoid
each other. Not only that, they also have poor eyesight but acute of hearing
and smell. The rhinos also the largest of perisodactyls (Greek language, means
a mammal of the order Perissodatyla such as horse and rhinoceros) and one of
the features of very large body size in mammals is a low reproductive rate.
What is the Africa
rhinos and the Asia rhinos? Let’s take a look one by one.
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| African's People |
The African have two species of
rhinos it is black rhino and white rhino. Both of this species are coming
extinction because of illegal rhino horn, especially the white rhinos. What is
the difference between this two rhinos are the black rhinos has a pointed upper
lip and the white rhinos has squared lip. The difference in lip shape is
related to the rhinos diet. So, the black are browsers that get most of their
sustenance from eating trees and bushes so that their use their lips to pluck
leaves and fruits from the branches. Meanwhile, the white rhinos likes to
gather in group of as dozen individuals and they mostly live on Africa’s grassy
plains. They like to lying in the shade under the hot Africa sun. the white
rhino have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. It is grow up
to five feet (1.5 meters) longs. For the female rhino the horns are use to
protect their young but to male rhino, it is use to battle the attackers. As
addition, the white rhino are roamed much of sub-Saharan Africa but today is on
the verse of extinction due to poaching.
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| Rhino in Africa |
The number of rhinos poached in
South Africa has increased by 90% since 2007-from 13 to a record 1,215 in 2015.
The illegal poaching keep increased and they use sophisticated method such as
use night vision equipment to track the rhinos. This is because they use the
powdered horn as a traditional Asia medicine to cure the fever and even cancer.
Meanwhile, in Asian there have
three species of rhinos that brink of extinction. It is the greater one-horned
rhino which is originally from Pakistan, all the way through India, Nepal,
Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar. In 1975, it just only 600 species remained but
in mid-2015 about 3,555 species and were reclassification from endangered to
vulnerable.
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| Rhinoceros unicornis in Chitwan National Park, Nepal |
Then, the Javan rhinos, it is
critically endangered and rarest larges mammal species in the world. Also known
as lesser one-horned rhino. Live at north-eastern India through Myanmar,
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Today, the Javan rhinos are
60 species left in wild.
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| Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulun National Park, Indonesia |
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| Rhino mating in Thailand |
And the last, Sumatran rhinos
which the smallest rhino species and the only Asian rhino with two horns. The
Sumatran rhino live at Indo-China, Malaysia and Indonesia. Today, the estimated
at fewer than 100 individuals, located in a few small pocket in Sumatra and
Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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| Rhino in India |
The ways to prevents
Mostly, the rhinos were
extinction because of the uncontrollable illegal poaching through of benefit on
the rhinos horns. So, to prevent this illegal poaching, we need to stopping the
poachers, reducing customer demand for rhino horns also we support the
translocation of rhinos to create new and secure populations. Also, government
should compound people whose found guilty about their action lead to extinction
of rhinoceros. More of it, government should do program associate with
rhinoceros such as extinction of animal to school. This thing implant
development of bad thing and good thing to children at school and so on for the
better future. Furthermore, the WWF has created The World Rhino Day for
celebrated the habitat of rhinos that coming extinction. Although, all people
around the world must take procedure to ensure the rhinoceros have better
future so that kid in future will see this animal. So, together we support the
ways to prevent the rhinos from keep extinction.
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| Translocated the rhino from Royal |
