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- The smallest rhino is 6 ft high and 12 ft long
- The largest rhino can weigh over 3 tons
- The weakest of senses rhinos have, is probably its sense of sight
- Rhinos have teeth that are flat because they only eat plants
- Rhinos have either strait or curve tails
- Rhinos have no predators
- A black rhino is not black
- Baby rhinos weigh 35 lbs as newborns most of the time weigh 40 lbs
- Rhinos can run up to
11 mph.
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| Rhinoceros front foot |
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- There are 15,000 Rhinos in Africa and 3,000 Rhinos in Asia
- People try to save Rhinos
- If feels in danger, if you or another animal trespasses on it's land
- Depending on the species, Rhinos live between 30 and 50 years
- The worlds Rhino population has decreased 90% since 1970 due to poaching
- Rhinos use dung poop to communicate with other Rhinos
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- Rhinos have only 1 baby at a time
- The black, or hooked lipped rhino, along with all other Rhino species, is an odd toed ungulate (three toes on each foot
- A black rhino is pregnant usually between 419 and 478 days or 15 to 16 months
- Approx two meters wide three meters long
- Most baby rhinos weigh between 88 and 140 pounds on average depending on the specific sub-species
- Rhinos are endangered - pouching is the biggest threat to rhinos in the wild
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