about 1500
Total about 200
50
Total 3500
Of the current total White rhino population numbering 4500-5000, approximately 4700 are found in South Africa, with isolated populations in Zimbabwe and Garamba National Park, Zaire.
This forest-dweller uses its prehensile upper lip to browse in a manner similar to the African Black rhino.
none have survived.
Makoko is one of the group of five Black rhino recently purchased by Dale Parker at the Natal Parks Board game auction. Realising she was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, Makoko was therefore the first rhino to be released from the holding pen into Lapalala Wilderness to give her ample time to adapt to her new surroundings. But on 11 July 1992, just over a week later, she gave birth to a 21 kilogram bull calf. Returning from a morning game drive, a manager and his group of guests came across the tiny rhino on a steep dirt road, apparently alone and abandoned. When no trace was found of his mother, the starving and dehydrated baby rhino was immediately taken back to camp for safekeeping. Everyone sprang into action to save the little rhino, aptly christened Bwana Tshiwana-`Mr Orphan.' Karen and Roy Trendier from the Animal Rehabilitation Centre (ARC), together with a vet and an emergency supply of colostrum, met little Bwana and his entourage from Lapalala at Nylstroom. Colostrum, a substance found only in mother's milk, is vital in the first few hours of life to enable new born babies to build some internal.resistance to disease and infection. By 6.00 pm that evening the small rhino had safely arrived at .the Onderstepoort Veterinary facility. Little Bwana was believed to be at least a month premature and, as with many premature births, there was no lack of complications - the umbilical cord had not been properly severed and an infection developed, nearly leading to his death in the few weeks which followed. The rhino calf also contracted a bactericial infection which severely affects joints and had to be treated with strong drugs to ease pain and stiffness.
At the turn of the 20th century, when there were thought to be less than 100 White rhino left in South Africa, the Natal parks authorities intervened.
this rhino is predominantly a grazer but can gather tall grass using its prehensile lip, normally tucked out of the way for cropping-short grass.
The Javan rhino has a scaly skin with a mosaic appearance, folds on the neck and folds on the shoulders which are joined in the midline of the back giving the body a segmented look, rather like a scaly anteater.
The skin is knobbly giving the animal a tough, 'riveted' appearance, yet still as soft and penetrable as any other hide.
The Javan rhino has a scaly skin with a mosaic appearance, folds on the neck and folds on the shoulders which are joined in the midline of the back giving the body a segmented look, rather like a scaly anteater.
The skin is knobbly giving the animal a tough, 'riveted' appearance, yet still as soft and penetrable as any other hide.
A small horn is found exclusively in males while females have only a small knob.
this rhino is predominantly a grazer but can gather tall grass using its prehensile lip, normally tucked out of the way for cropping-short grass.
This forest-dweller uses its prehensile upper lip to browse in a manner similar to the African Black rhino.
A small horn is found exclusively in males while females have only a small knob.
Although the different species of rhino look similar and originally descended from a single common ancestor, they represent two evolutionary lines which split tens of millions of years ago. One line led to the one-horned rhino, seen today as the primitive Javan rhino and the more advanced Indian species. The second led to the two-horned type, the Sumatran rhino being a true descendant, but about 10 million years ago, a branch found its way to Africa and eventually separated into the Black and White rhino. Both African rhinos evolved to feed without cutting teeth - present in all three Asian species-while their long, sharp horns became important for defence.
