Rhino blog

16/06/2022

The island of Sumatra was inhabited by rare Sumatran rhinos, which differ from their African relatives in that their body is covered with hair. In 2019, the last of them who lived in the wild died in the wild.

16/06/2022

They have very fine hearing, and their sense of smell, too, but their eyesight is very weak. But, as they say, with their size, this is not their problem.

15/06/2022

Paleontologists have found that in past epochs there were 57 different species of rhinos on Earth, which are now considered extinct.

15/06/2022

The arrangement of the legs of these animals is very interesting. They have fingers, three on each limb, and each finger has a separate hoof.

14/06/2022

In some species of rhinoceros, which became extinct around the 10th millennium BC, the horns reached a length of 2 meters.

14/06/2022

Rhinos just seem clumsy. They are capable of speeds up to 60 km / h, so it is impossible to escape from them. However, from such a gallop they quickly run out of steam.

13/06/2022

The male and female of these animals sometimes fight among themselves before mating. The reasons for this behavior are unknown.

13/06/2022

Some extinct species of rhinoceros had no horns at all, however, they still belonged to this particular animal species.

12/06/2022

Woolly rhinoceroses once existed on earth, now extinct. They lived in cold regions, next to mammoths.

12/06/2022

Rhinoceroses are the second largest among all modern land mammals. Only elephants are bigger than them.

12/06/2022

Rhino horn in its chemical composition is quite close to human hair or nails. Much closer than, for example, to the bones. The horn consists mainly of keratin.

10/06/2022