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Rhinoceros are endangered species with fewer than 30,000 living in the wild today. At the start of the 20th century, there were more than 500,000. Three species of rhino – black, Javan and ...
For most of the 20th century the continental black rhino was the most numerous of all rhino species. Around 1900 there were probably several hundred thousand [ 1 ] living in Africa. During the latter half of the 20th century their numbers were severely reduced from an estimated 70,000 [ 61 ] in the late 1960s to only 10,000 to 15,000 in 1981.
The southern black rhinoceros, southern hook-lipped rhinoceros or Cape rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis bicornis) is an extinct subspecies of the black rhinoceros that was once abundant in South Africa from the Cape Province to Transvaal, southern Namibia, and possibly also Lesotho and southern Botswana.
The south-central black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis minor), also known as the south-central hook-lipped rhinoceros or the lesser black rhino, is a subspecies of the black rhinoceros. In keeping with the rules of zoological nomenclature, the south-central black rhinoceros should be known as Diceros bicornis keitloa (Smith, 1836), a nomen novum. [3]
Corey Knowlton won a very expensive permit to hunt and kill an endangered animal and has now used it to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia.
As the black rhinoceros population is extirpated in most of these areas, the status of the latter subspecies is unclear. Some animals of the Kenyan population may belong to it. These black rhinos were examined by Benson and others through the Kenya Wildlife Service and had an article published by the African Journal of Ecology (Benson, 1, 791).
The eastern black rhinoceros is a critically endangered species, with only about 740 remaining in the wild. Black rhino baby, a critically endangered species, is born New Year’s Eve at KC Zoo ...
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