Javan Rhinoceros Endangered Animal Indonesia

Javan rhino or rhinoceros known by one or also more accurately Sunda rhinoceros, in scientific language called Rhinoceros sondaicus which is a family of Rhinocerotidae, rhinoceros is one of the five extant. Rhino is the same as the Indian rhinoceros genus that has skin like armor.

Characteristics

The rhino has a length of 3.1 to 3.2 meters in height reaches 1.4 to 1.7. The rhino is smaller than the Indian rhinoceros and almost as big body with a black rhino. his horn about 20 cm smaller than the other rhino horn.

The rhino is not only on the island just spread, and this is one of the rhino rhino most widely spread in Asia, throughout Southeast Asia, the Indian and Chinese. So the rhino is not only on the island of Java alone. according to some sources this rhino is able to live up to 30-45 years in the wild. Rhinos live in wet lowland forests and in forest great flood, these animals avoid humans and when they feel disturbed, they will attack.

Javan Rhino has a small horn of the rhino, horns not used for fighting, and its horn is used as the transfer of mud and grass towing for example food and opening the way for the path. This animal has a long and upper lip length used to take food, and had long teeth are used to fight and chew food. Like other rhino Javan rhino has a hearing and a keen sense of smell and bad eye sight.

Javan rhinos are herbivores that eat their crops, plants, twigs and leaves. which is preferred by these animals is a plant that grows in areas exposed to direct sunlight as in the area of ​​land clearing, bushes and other vegetation types without trees.

Rhinos are quiet animals and they throng to find puddles, they do not dig in the mud puddle-mud puddle but uses the results of other animals or even puddles that occurs by itself and magnify by using culannya. It's like other rhinos they silt up to maintain body temperature and keeping of the parasite.