The world rhinoceros is taken from Latin from the Ancient
Greek. The word consist two word rhino means ‘nose’ and keras means ‘horn’. In this
way rhinoceros means ‘nose-horned’. Two of extant species are found in Africa and
other three in Southern Asia. This big animal is very strong animal and has power
to defeat its enemy.
The Indian rhinoceros has one nose on its nose and therefore
it is known as the great one-rhinoceros. The Asian rhinoceros is the species
that is small in body structure and native to most part of India and Nepal. In past
the Indian rhinoceros has found across Northern India but today because of
excessive hunting its range has been reduced. Today its range has been confined
only to the tall grassland and the forest, surround the Himalayas Mountain
range.
This big animal has 1.7m to 2m size and 2200kg
to 3800kg weight. It runs 42km/h at its top speed. Its life span is about
45 to 50 years. Its lifestyle is full of happiness but solitary. It has very
thick skin and leather type skin and grass is its favourite food.
The one horned Indian rhinoceros is very interesting animal
and has beautifully caught in camera. We have wonderful collection of pictures
of this big different looking animal. It is good to put the rhinoceros’ picture
as wallpaper. So select any one according to your interest and set as a back
ground picture of your computer or laptop.
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