Biography of the Javanese rhino
They are considered one of the most endangered species in the world. The Javanese rhino live in only one place, the national park of the Udzhung Park at the western tip of Java. The Javanese rhino lives in dense, lowlands of tropical forests, meadows and reed thickets with abundant amounts of rivers, large floodplains or moist places where they are lying in mud. Size: Javanese rhino less Indian rhinos, and is close in size to a black rhino.
This is the largest animal living on the island of Java, and the second largest animal in Indonesia after the Asian elephant. The body length of the Javanese rhino can be from 2 to 4 m 6.6 to 13.1 feet, and reach a height of 1, 7 m 4. Adults weigh from and to kg and pounds, although the exact measurements of animals have never been carried out, and is not a priority.
There is no significant difference between the size between the sexes, but females can be slightly larger. Roosoros in Vietnam were significantly less than on the island of Java, based on photographs and measurement of their traces. Description: Like the Indian rhino, the Javanese rhino has one horn. Its horn is the smallest of all existing rhinos, as a rule, less than 20 cm 7.9 inches, the maximum length is 27 cm 11 inches.
Only males have horns. Females of the Javanese rhino are the only surviving rhinos that are thrown back in adulthood, although they can leave a small growth of one or two inches in height. The Javanese rhino does not often use their horns to fight, but instead uses it to clean the dirt, clean the path through thick vegetation. Like other types of rhinos of black, Sumatransky and Indian, the Javanese rhino has long, pointed upper lips that help in the seizure of food.
The lower incisors are long and sharp, it uses these teeth. The skin of the spotted is gray or gray-brown enters the folds on the shoulder, back and cereal. The skin has natural mosaic, which gives the rhino an armored look. The folds of the nasor neck are smaller than that of the Indian rhino, but still form the saddle shape over the shoulder. Character: The Javanese rhino is a single animal, with the exception of nesting couples and mothers with cubs.
They sometimes gather in small groups lay in the mud. Wrying in mud is ordinary behavior for all rhinos; Activities allows them to maintain cool body temperature and helps prevent diseases and infection with parasites.
The Javanese rhino usually does not dig his own dirt, preferring to use other animals or natural pits, which he will use his horns to increase them. Salt is also very important, due to the necessary nutrients, the rhino gets from salt. The ranges of the male territory are larger, on km 7. The male territories overlap each other less than that of females. It is not known if there are territorial battles.
Males mark their territories with dung heaps and urine. Classes made by legs on the ground are used for communication. Members of other types of rhinos have a kind of habit of defecating in the massive dung piles of the rhino, and then cleansing them back with their feet in manure. Content: feeding: Java's rhino is grassy, feeds on various species of plants, especially their shoots, branches, young foliage and fallen fruits.
Most of the plants that are powdered in sunny areas in forest glades, shrubs and other types of vegetation without any large trees. The rhino knocks the seedlings to reach the foliage and grabs it with the tenure of the upper lip. The rhino eats about 50 kg of pounds of food per day. Needs salt. Propagation: Life expectancy for about years in the wild. Additional information: Javan Rhinoceros, Sunda Rhinoceros, Lesser One-Horned Rhinoceros subspecies:.