The Descriptive Text of One-Horned Rhinoceros

One-horned rhinoceros or often referred to as the Indonesian Javan rhinoceros is one type of mammal
beast that figures with special features of a horn above the head, its body is covered by a skin that
resembles a mosaic like a steel suit. This one-sided feather is very small and invisible, this gray or brown
gray feather wraps almost all of its shoulders, back and buttocks. But for the neck the wrapper looks a bit
small compared to other rhinos and still forms like a saddle on the shoulders.

one-horned rhinoceros dan habitat

Size of this single-horned rhinoceros ranged between 3.1 – 3.2 meters and height reached between 1.4 -
1.7 meters. And the survey has reached there is a single-horned rhinoceros that weighs 900-2300 kg. really
big and powerful this one horned rhinoceros.

one-horned rhinoceros in the river

From the name, we can already draw the conclusion that this type of rhinoceros has a horn at the top of
its head, although its size is small but it grows perfectly. Lips owned by this one-horned rhino Looks long,
it is useful to help him in taking food or prey. The rhinoceros of a single rhinoceros series have a long and
sharp shape for the defense against the enemy. Then, at the back of the incisors are six fairly long molar
teeth used for the hard, rough and bulky food mastication process.

one-horned rhinoceros and other habitats

God gives the next uniqueness, this one-horned rhino has an incredible sense of smell and hearing but for
its impaired sense of vision. With such body consumption, one-horned rhinoceros can survive between
30 -45 years.

one-horned rhinoceros in the zoo

One-tiered rhinos are classified in calm animals, not berate we can approach as we please, we still have
to be careful. He will form a group consisting of several rhinos with the aim of finding minerals and mud
puddles. Wallowing in the lumbar is one of the habits to maintain body temperature and help prevent
diseases and parasites that may be on the skin. They made a puddle with their horns first by digging,
puddles that appear with the natural or the former from the puddles of other animals.

This horned rhinoceros is very fond of inhabiting lowland rainforest as its habitat, because of alang -alang
plants in the river, or wet areas with surrounding mud puddles. This one-horned rhino can be found in
Ujung Kulon National Park, Banten, and Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam.

This one-horned rhinoceros is a herbivore animal that only makes plants as food, they prefer buds, buds,
young leaves and fallen fruits. Plants that serve delicious food are plants that live in sun-exposed areas
such as plants in forest openings, shrubs, and other vegetation-type plants without large trees.

The habit of a one-horned rhino before enjoying the plant (eat) he will drop or knock the young plants
and then take it with his long mouth. Daily, one-horned body can menghabiskn as much as 50 kg of food
in a day. Although he is not in the sea, he desperately needs salt in the process of eating it is used to
complement the nutrients. And sometimes Looks of one-horned rhino that takes or drinks sea water.

one-horned rhinoceros is eating

one horned rhinoceros is classified in vivivar animals or animals that breed by childbirth. His difficulty in
the sexual season makes this one-horned rhino very difficult to breed. For a female rhinoceros, she will
reach her sexual maturity when she reaches 3-4 years while for male rhino reaches maturity period when
he is 6 years old. In the breeding season, couples will live together even though they live solitary, though
they will spend each other together for 3-4 months. After a pregnant female rhinoceros, she will pass her
pregnancy for 510-550 days and unfortunately her pregnancy can only give birth to a rhino baby. And for
the next pregnancy she has to wait for 4-6 years.

Its very rare existence makes the government dock for breeding in National Parks or Zoos. Currently
recorded there are only about 50-60 rhinos spread throughout the world. They are protected in Cat Tien
National Park in Vietnam and Ujung Kulon Banteng National Park.

Humans are again eager to get by using animals for their lives, including with one-horned rhinoceros. They
hunted wildly to take their horns, and for the Chinese people they believed that by eating their body meat
they would have a healthy body, in China they valued Rp.300.000.000 per kilo. And the existence of war
between rhinoceros, making the population becomes less and less.