Tuesday, May 21, 2013

What I Have Learned About The Black Rhino

            The Black Rhino or black rhinoceros
(Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and central Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Angola. Although the rhinoceros is referred to as black, its colors vary from brown to gray.
Black rhinoceros or
Hook-lipped rhinoceros[1]
Black rhinoceros at the St. Louis Zoo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Diceros
Gray, 1821
Species: D. bicornis
Binomial name
Diceros bicornis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
Diceros bicornis bicornis
Diceros bicornis brucii
Diceros bicornis chobiensis
Diceros bicornis ladoensis
Diceros bicornis longipes
Diceros bicornis michaeli
Diceros bicornis minor
Diceros bicornis occidentalis
Historical black rhinoceros range (ca. 1700 A.D.).[3] Hatched: Possible historical range in West Africa.[4]
Current black rhinoceros range
  native   reintroduced   introduced   possibly extinct   extinct



 Well Why Does The Rhino Need Us

Because Poachers in West Africa on the picture above
They mostly need help because those Poachers in West Africa, They dont kill for harm they kill for their horns,
the Horns are used for medicine and they give to the Africans. But the billion question is 
                                                                   WHY KILL THEM?
I dont understand!Why dont they find another way to cure the sickness!
BUT tonght ill find the way!

1 comment:

  1. Hello Aaryanna,

    I really love this post. This post have some great scientific information about the black rhino. It would be great if you can edit the bottom portion of the post. Check your spelling and rephrase it to make it clearer.

    Mr. Ronelus

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