Archive for September, 2010

history of the rhino can be traced back 45 million years.
Baluchitherium, an ancestor of the Indian rhino, was the largest land mammal that ever lived. It was 18 feet high and 36 feet long. He lived more than 20,000,000 years.
Fortunately, the rhino on the way back through the efforts of fans and volunteers.

The problem The problem of the Rhino was her beauty, the horn. It is composed of keratin, a substance found in hair and nails of man. Rhino horn powder was often used in traditional medicine in Asia and ornamental dagger handles in Yemen. The demand is so great that the dealers willing to pay huge sums of poachers kill rhinos for their horns.
Because of this, the Rhinos faced mass murder. To stop these abuses and government agencies such as Save the Rhino team together to end violence. Thank you to them, the general decline in the rhino has been halted, and the people in Africa begin to stabilize.

LUPE …..
The rhino belongs to the family Rhinoceroteridae. They are 5 species in 4 genera found.
Three of these species in south-central Asia can be found and the other two live in Africa />
The African species living in more open areas than the Asian species.
Their habitat usually has access to water. Usually drink each day.
Their horns are made callosities originally compressed keratin. Usually they are 1-2 horns. The two front legs and back have 3 points with a small hoof. They are known for poor eyesight, have heard but strong and smell. Hardware and wrinkled skin has very few scattered hairs. The tail ends with stiff hair. BREEDING

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rhino females give birth every 2 years on a single calf, which is active from birth.
The calf is born with his mother until the next offspring.
pregnancy is 420-570 days. Sexual maturity is reached at 7-10 years for bulls and 4-6 years for cows.They a life of up to 50 years.

Note that the rhino in Africa are more aggressive than Asian species.
discard their horns and their use to attack enemies.
This can be especially dangerous and can kill immediately assailant.
African rhinos have a preference of feeding low open ground, while the black rhino is usually some of the leaves and tend to remain hidden /> Rhinos wallow in both standing and sleeping positions and with love in the muddy pools and beds of sand. They penetrate dense thickets by shear force, often leaving a trail that other animals later use. Rhinos run with a cumbersome motion, reaching top speed at a gallop. You can, however, at speeds up to 45 km per hour for short distances.Basically black rhino solitary and territorial, except for mother-child unit.
groups of cows and bulls are sometimes formed bachelor, however, and during the mating season pairs of rhinos may stay together for up to four months.
Rhinos mark their territories with urine and feces by dropping her in well-defined piles that reach up to 1 m high. Often, they wander the areas around these piles with their horns and batteries even more.
The black rhino has a wide vocal range and can possibly communicate like an elephant,
of frequencies below the range of human hearing. Breathing is an important element of communication.
In contrast to the white rhino-calf, the black rhino calf normally runs behind his mother.

CURRENT SITUATION ..
were about 20,000 black rhinos in Kenya in the 1970s.
In 1982 the population was reduced to less than 400. Since then their numbers />

Since 1984 the Kenyan government has devoted an active program, the Recreation />


Rhino population in custody on private land (Solio Ranch) and parts />
(including re-introduction of animals in a sanctuary electric fence of Tsavo West and Meru National Parks KWS term). The private sector plays an important role in the conservation of rhinos in Kenya and currently supplies most of the animals used in restocking State Parks.

Kenya is currently the stronghold of the Eastern African subspecies Diceros bicornis Michaeli of
a house about 88% of the population in 1995. When South Africa and Namibia, Kenya translocation is intended to ensure new populations during that donor populations remain productive to establish
. The fate of the public black rhino has attracted support from many different areas. Today, scientists are formulating a method of “fingerprint” of rhino horn based on the nutrient content of each specific rhino conservation area. So they came to the area a rhino, to identify his family group, and even his favorite food. It is also an important step in removing the poaching, the scientists be able to determine where a rhino was when he was killed.