Rhino calves stay with their mother and don’t leave home until they are about 3 years old. Like most mothers, they are also very protective of their calves. Rhino moms are very protective of their babies.Ī rhino Mom is pregnant for around 15 to 16 months and is very nurturing and caring. Okay, maybe the greater one-horned/Indian and Javan rhinos aren’t really knights in shining armor, but both could be rhinos in shining armor. In fact, the nickname of the greater one-horned or Indian rhino is the unicorn rhino. I’m sure you’ve seen this slogan on many t-shirts and other promotional items to help save the rhino – Save The Chubby Unicorn! While there’s no real explanation to the origin of its name, white rhino is thought to be either the Afrikaans word wyd or the Dutch word(s) wijd/whyde, or weit which all mean “wide.” The chubbiest rhino is also called a unicorn and is built like a knight in shining armor. Black rhinos are gray, white rhinos aren’t really white, and Sumatran rhinos are reddish-brown.ĭespite its name, the white rhino is the same color as the black rhino. If a rhino survives a poacher’s attack on its horn, a new one will grow back. Unlike elephant tusks (which are made out of ivory) rhino horns are solid and not hollow and continue to grow throughout the rhino’s lifetime. It’s the same thing that our fingernails are made from. The horn or horns of a rhino is/are not bone and is not attached to the Rhino’s skull. Some Javan Rhino females have no horn at all! The Black, White, and Sumatran Rhinos have two horns. The longest known horn on record was 5 1/2 feet (1.7 meters) long! White Rhinos usually have the longest horns. Both humans and rhinos have keratin in their bodies. The “skinniest” is the again the Sumatran weighing in at a 1,500 lbs (700 kg).
The rhino weighs more than an SUV (sports utility vehicle)! The heaviest rhino is the Indian/greater-one-horned rhino. Standing slightly taller than a mailbox along the side of a road, the shortest rhino is the Sumatran rhino, which stands at 4’3” (1.3 meters). The average height for rhinos is around 6 ft.
Rhinos come in variety of shapes and sizes. Here are 20 interesting facts about rhinos – one of nature’s oldest animals. These are the Black rhinoceros and the white rhinoceros, both of which live in Africa. While the greater one-horned or Indian rhinoceros, Javan rhinoceros, and Sumatran rhinoceros all live in Asia. Today, there are five different kinds of Rhino. The first rhinoceros to roam the planet was the Woolly Rhino that lived on earth over 50 million years ago! Now rhinos can only be found in Asia and Africa.
The word rhinoceros means “horned nose” and they once roamed and made their homes in North America and Europe.
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