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Black rhinoceros (Diceros “Bicornis), which is exclusive to Africa, is the second largest land animal (700-1,400 kg in weight) surpased by elephant ir bulk and weight. It has thick skin forming / flexible plates over the shoulder, haunches, sides forehead and checks. Naturally, Black rhinoceros has grey skin colour. However, during the dry season the natural colour of its hide is discolored due to mudwallowing and rolling in dust and ash. The head has a short forehead with two horns and a very muscular, mobile mouth ending in sharply pointed upper lip.
Black rhinoceros is a browser, which favors edges of thickets and savannah with areas of short woody regrowth and numerous shrubs and herbs. The horns are, occasionally, used to loosen soil around roots or to breakdown branches above lips reach. A young black rhino is born after a gestation of 15-16 month and matures at 4 or 5 years old in spite of a life spanning more than 40 years, it has the slowest recruitment rate.
Despite their various uses in the livelihood of the animal, rhino’s horns are the main causes for the decline of its population. Human pride, a superstition and greed have combined to ensure astronomical prices for horn in the form of dagger handles, cups, supposed medicine and aphrodistac. As a result of this, the population of black rhino in Africa has been reduced from 70,000 in 1960 to only 3,300 in 1990. Thus, it is listed as Appendix 1 (CITES2 ) Endangered species (IUCN3).
In Ethiopia, despite the recent promising information about its existence from Somalia regional state, Black rhino is critically endangered and it is on the verge of extinctions. This fact initiates to give special attention for this critical endangered species of the country.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Wild Animals Development and Conservation Department
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