Hey guys welcome back to Shelby on Safari! I hope you're well and ready to celebrate world rhino day
because we are going to learn five things that you need to know about these amazing animals!
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see all the new content! Now let's get started! Rhinos have been around for quite some time ...
pretty much about 50 million years! So no big deal! And you think rhinos nowadays are big well
meet their ancestor Paraceratherium. They were the largest land mammal to ever live! Standing 5
meters tall at the shoulder and weighing up to 20 tons! And this rhino was found from eastern Europe
to now what is china. There even used to be species of rhino in North America.
There have been up to 30 different species of rhino but most of them now are extinct because
of poaching and deforestation. Nowadays only five major species of rhino remain
and within that 11 subspecies. Two of the main species of rhino are found in Africa
they are the black rhino and the white rhino. The other three species are: the greater one-horned
rhino, javan rhino and sumatran rhino. And they are found in parts of Asia. And while three species of
rhino the Black, Javan and Sumatran are critically endangered there have been some conservation
success stories within rhino populations for example the greater one-horned rhino also known
as the Indian rhino had about 200 individuals in their population at the turn of the 20th century
however due to conservation efforts across the world they now have a population over 3 700 rhinos!
rhinos are very special in many different ways and obviously i'm a bit biased however they are
one of the few mega herbivores left on earth that means they are plant eaters that weigh
more than 2 000 pounds they have a very important role within their ecosystem of really cutting the
grass and keeping it tidy and while that may seem silly if the rhinos do disappear savannas and
forests that they inhabit will become a distinctly different place if they're gone and that could
have devastating consequences on the rest of the animals that inhabit that particular ecosystem
the sumatran rhino is often considered the most primitive rhino species
for they are the closest living relative to the famous
woolly rhinoceros that lived in the frigid lands of europe and asia during the ice age
the javan rhino is probably the most mysterious
by the time the first naturalists ventured into the southeast asian forest these guys
were already very rare and not much is known about its behavior and ecology
the greater one-horned rhino are very good at swimming they can dive and feed underwater
and to help them feed they have a prehensile
upper lip which is similar to that of the black rhino which helps them in foraging
don't let the black rhino size deceive you even though they weigh up to 13
kilograms they can move fast up to 55 kilometers per hour
there is no actual color difference between the black and the white rhino species however
there is a size difference the white rhino is the larger of the two african species
and it has a bigger head due to the muscles that support its neck this is because they feed
from the ground and their head is lower for much of the day thank you so much for joining me for
world rhino day if you learned something new why not give this video a thumbs up and let me
know in the comments below what your favorite species of rhino is i'll catch you later bye