When used, the horn is shaved or ground into a powder, before being dissolved in boiling water and consumed. There are five species of rhinoceros and, with the exception of one subspecies of African White rhino, all are in danger of being hunted to extinction for their horns.
Rhinos, as we know them, have been around for millions of years, but Dr H. Spaiens has created a predicament from which they might never recover. There is a belief in Western countries that rhino horn is used as an aphrodisiac and sexual stimulant, but this is not correct and seems to have been misunderstood or misinterpreted by Western media. However, research has shown that people in Viet Nam are starting to believe this rumour as they are consuming it for new reasons.
Even without aphrodisiacal properties, however, rhino horn is one of the mainstays of Traditional Chinese Medicines, and its collection has been responsible for the death of tens of thousands of rhinos around the world. Make no mistake: those people using rhino horn to cure medical ailments really believe it works. There has been a recent surge in demand for rhino horn in Viet Nam. A survey, carried out by TRAFFIC in , identified that the motivation for consumers buying rhino horn is the emotional benefit rather than medicinal, as it reaffirms their social status among their peers.
Image and status are important to these consumers, as they tend to be highly educated and successful people who have a powerful social network and no affinity to wildlife. Rhino horns are sometimes bought for the sole purpose of being gifted to others; to family members, business colleagues or people in positions of authority.
You can read their report here. In South Africa it is possible to trade rhino horn domestically within the country , after a legal battle to overturn the ban took place in Sumatran and Javan rhinos are found only in small areas of Malaysian and Indonesian swamps and rain forests.
Rhinos spend their days and nights grazing and only sleep during the hottest parts of the day. During the rare times when they aren't eating, they can be found enjoying a cooling mud soak. These soaks also help to protect the animals from bugs, and the mud is a natural sunblock, according to National Geographic. Though rhinos are often solitary, they do occasionally form groups. Called crashes, these groups are made up of a female and her offspring.
A dominant male rules over an area of land. The male will allow some sub-dominate males to live on his territory. Females roam freely around several different territories. Rhinoceroses are herbivores, which means they eat only vegetation. The type of vegetation they eat varies by species. This is because their snouts are different shapes to accommodate different types of food, according to National Geographic.
For example, the black rhino eats trees or bushes because its long lips allow it to pick leaves and fruit from up high. The white rhino has a flat-shaped snout that lets it get closer to the ground for eating grass. Every two and a half to five years, a female rhino will reproduce. Female rhinos carry their young for a gestation period of 15 to 16 months. They usually only have one baby at a time, though they do sometimes have twins. At birth, baby rhinos, which are called calves, are still quite big, at 88 to lbs.
Though rhinos don't often hang out with each other, they do hang out with birds. The oxpecker will sit on a rhino's back and eat the bugs that crawl on the rhino's skin. That's not the only thing this bird is good for. When danger approaches, the bird will call out, warning the rhino. Black rhinos are not actually black, according to the International Rhino Foundation.
They probably got that name from the dark, muddy soil they like to wallow in or to distinguish them from white rhinos. Poachers also value rhino horns for making ornamental dagger handles called jambiyas, according to Save the Rhino. This type of handle became a status symbol in Yemen in the s and '80s, fueled by the oil boom, when more people could afford luxury items. Two horned rhino is a rare and typical species of rhinoceros. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes hair and nails.
Both African and Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while Indian and Javanese rhinoceros have one horn. Sumatra rhinoceros, also known as hairy rhinoceros or Asian bi-horned rhinoceros Decarrhinus sumatranensis , is a rare member of the rhinoceros family and one of the five species of rhinoceros, the only extant species of Decarhinus. It is still the smallest rhinoceros, though it is still a large mammal; It measures cm 3.
Weights of the two horned rhino have been reported to average kg 1,—1, lbs , ranging from to one thousand kg 1, to 2, lbs , although it has a sample of one thousand records 4, lbs. Like both African species, two horned rhino has two horns; Larger nasal horn, usually cm 5. A coat of reddish brown hair covers most parts of Sumatra rhinoceros.
Members of the two horned rhino species once lived in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and rain forests, water bodies and cloud forests in China. At times, they lived in southwestern China, especially in Sichuan. Two horned rhino is now critically endangered, with only five populations in the wild: four in Sumatra and one in Borneo because their numbers are difficult to determine because they are lonely creatures that expand throughout their range, but their numbers are estimated to be less than Researchers announced on 23 May that the Bornean rhino had disappeared from the northern part of Borneo Sabah, Malaysia ; However, a small population was discovered in East Kalimantan in early Sumatran two horned rhino is mostly solitary creatures without solitude and offspring.
It identifies the most vocal rhinoceros species and the soil with its legs, contacting the plants by turning them into patterns and leaving excreta. Due to a program that captured 40 Sumatran rhinos with the goal of conserving the species, some of the much-needed Javanese rhinoceros is far more studied. There was little or no information about the mechanisms that would help reproduce natural conditions of the two horned rhino. Although several rhinos were killed at various destinations at one time and no children were born for almost 20 years, rhinoceroses soon vanished in their logged forests.
In March , a Sumatra rhino subspecies of a rhino rhino was spotted in Indonesian Borneo. The latest male Sumatra rhino in Malaysia named Tam passed away on May 27, There are three subspecies of two horned rhino:. Sumatrensis , known as western Sumatra rhino, has only 75 to 85 rhinos. Horsemeni , also known as the Bornean rhinoceros or the eastern Sumatra rhinoceros, was once prevalent throughout Borneo; Now only 15 people are estimated to survive.
Laciotis , known as the rhinoceros of North Sumatra or the Chittagong rhinoceros, who once roamed India and Bangladesh, were declared extinct in these countries. A mature Sumatra rhinoceros weighs cm 8. Pound is known as the weight [it has two horns similar to the two African species.
Larger nasal horns, usually cm 5. The posterior horn is much shorter, usually less than 10 cm 3. Something more than a knot. The large nasal horn is also known as the anterior horn; The short horn is known as the front horn.
The horns are dark gray or black. Men have larger horns than wives, although the breed is not otherwise sexual. The Sumatran rhinoceros survives approximately years in the wild, with record time in captivity is a woman de Laciotis, who died 32 years 8 months before she died at the London Zoo in Two thick folds of skin surround the body before the front and back legs.
The rhinoceros has a small layer of skin on the neck. The skin itself is thin, 10—16 mm 0. The hair may be thicker the thickest hair of the young calf than the rarest, and it is usually reddish brown. In the wild, these hairs are hard to observe because rhinoceroses are often covered in mud.
In captivity, however, the hair grows larger and becomes much sharper, probably due to less friction when walking through the vegetation. There is a patch of long hair around the rhinoceros ear and a thick hairpin at the end of the tail. Like all rhinoceros, their vision is very bad. Sumatra rhinoceroses are fast and agile; It rises easily in the mountains and easily crosses the steep and river banks. The Sumatra rhino lives in rain forests, wetlands and cloud forests between both lowland and highland areas.
It lives in hilly areas close to the water, especially to increase the authentic upper valleys. The Sumatran rhinoceros once lived in uninhabited borders to northern Burma, eastern India and Bangladesh.
Unsupported reports put it in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam as well.
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