The name “white rhino” is not as accurate as we think and is actually derived from the wordwyd(wide), describing their square lips. This is the largest rhino species and isnative to Africa. While the Southern white rhino has managed to rebound from the brink of extinction, theNorthern wh...
The Sumatran rhino(Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)is a critically endangered rhino species. Like other rhinos, the Sumatran rhinoceros emerges at dusk and also in the morning. The rhino is a regular browser and the animal seems to rely on a variety of tropical forest plant life. Scientists have st...
US President Theodore Roosevelt with a rhino in Africa, 1911. (Public Domain) Today, every species of rhino bar the white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) isthreatened by habitat loss and hunting. Africa's Black rhino (Diceros bicornis), the Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus), and the Suma...
Javan rhino colloquium briefing, 1997, p. 15Foead N. 1997. Faecal DNA analysis: what does it offer to save Javan rhino? In: Foose TJ and van Strien NJ, editors, Javan Rhino Colloquium: agenda and briefing book. Editorial Committee, Bogor. p. 15....
Dürer/other rhino art image and info. Darwin was famed for collecting beetles when he should have been studying theology at Cambridge as a youth, and here is some of his collection. Dang. Darwin’s finches! Darwin kicked off some of his meticulous work with volumes on barnacles; specimens ...
The rarest animal in the world is the vaquita (Phocoena sinus). It is a kind of critically endangered porpoise that only lives in the furthest north-western
The rhino(犀牛) horn is a highly prized item for Asian medicine. This has led to the animal being hunted in its natural habitat. Once widespread in Africa, Europe and Asia, most rhinos now live in protected natural parks and reserves. Their numbers have rapidly decreased in the last 50 ye...
The last 100 years has seen a 95% reduction in the numbers of remaining tigers to between 5000 and 7000 and The Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers are already extinct. The South China tiger is precariously close to disappearing, with only 20 to 30 still alive. Like the Rhino horn, tigers’...
The relative silence here has partly been due to me giving myself some nice holiday time w/family in L.A., then having surgery to fix my right shoulder, then recovering from that and some complications (still underway, but the fact that I am doing this post is itself evidence of ...