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RHINOS!(:(Rhinoceros)

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Kingdom- Animalia

Phylum- Chordata

Class- Mammalia

Order- Perissodactyla

Family- Rhinocerotidae

I Got This From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros

Physical Characteristics

• The white rhino's name is from the Dutch "weit," meaning wide square muzzle adapted for grazing.

• The white rhino, which is actually gray, has a big obvious hump on the neck and a long face.

• The black, or hooked-lipped, rhino, along with all other rhino species, have three toes on each foot.

• It has thick, hairless, gray skin.

• Both the black and white rhino have two horns.

Habitat

• Black rhinos have all kinds of habitats, but mostly areas that have dense, woody vegetation.

• White rhinos live in savannas with water holes, mud wallows and shady trees.

Behavior

• Rhinos live in homes that sometimes overlap each other.

• Feeding grounds, water holes and wallows are sometimes shared.

• The black rhino is usually kept alone.

• The white rhino is more social.

• Rhinos are ill-tempered and becomes even more ill-tempered in areas where they are constantly disturbed.

• Their eyesight is poor, which is why they'll  charge at you for no reason, their sense of smell and hearing is very good.

• They have a big "vocabulary" of growls, grunts, squeaks, snorts and bellows.

• When the rhino attacks at you, they lower their head, snort, break into a gallop reaching a speed of 30 miles per hour, and strike powerful blows with their horns.

• The rhino is very well-coordinated and can quickly turn.

• The rhino has a great relationship with tick birds. 

• In Swahili, the tick bird is called "askari wa kifaru," meaning "the rhino's guard."

• The bird likes to eat ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns them of danger.

• Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino's skin and helps it heal, the rhinos tolerate them.

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Diet

• The black rhino is a browser(meaning they like to browse), with a triangular-shaped upper lip.

•  It eats a large variety of vegetation, including leaves, buds, shoots of plants, bushes and trees.

• The white rhino, on the other hand, feeds on growing grass.

Caring for the Young

• The closest rhino relationship is between a female and her baby, lasting for 2 to 4 years.

• As the older babies(calves) mature, they leave their mothers and join other females and their young, where they are tolerated for living on their own.

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Predators

• People are the cause of the death of the rhinos.

• In the wild, the black or white rhino has no natural predators and, despite its size and unfriendly reputation, it is extremely easy for people to kill them. 

• Rhinos usually go to water holes daily, where they are easily ambushed.

• The dramatic decline in rhino numbers are very unfortunate in an era of increasing conservation and wildlife awareness, but efforts save the rhinos from extinction.

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I Got This Information From http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engrhino.html?zenden=2&subsoort_id=1&bestemming_id=1

This is a link to another Wiki about Black Rhinos.(: