#Rhinos

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Pholidota. This order is made up of the pangolin, the only mammal to have keratin scales.

Perissodactyla. This order is also known as the odd-toed ungulates because they (mostly) have hooves and bear weight on one or three toes. It is made up of equines, rhinos, and tapirs.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #pangolins #mammals #tetrapods #horses #donkeys #rhinos #tapirs #Pholidota #Perissodactyla #0x60v0x9f #animal tournament #Animal Tournament Round 1

[clawmarks]

De Rhinocerote. Cosmographey : oder Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschafftenn und fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens - Sebastian Münster - c.1588 - via e-rara

#Illustration #rhinos

[nobrashfestivity]

A day like any other day where Salvador Dali tries to get a Rhino to attack a Vermeer painting with a crust of bread balanced on his head.

#Salvador Dali #johannes vermeer #rhinos #photography

[antiqueanimals]

Drawing Animals. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1964.

Internet Archive

#mammals #pachyderms #rhinos #Maurice Wilson

[mapsontheweb]

Where do Rhinos live?

by geography_worldmaps

#maps #geography_worldmaps #igsourced #rhinos

[thatsbelievable]

#What to do if the Bill is More Than You Expected #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #rhino #rhinos #rhinoceros #don’t ever skip out on the bill folks #unreality

[mindblowingscience]

A Sumatran rhino has been born in western Indonesia, officials said Monday, a rare sanctuary birth for the critically endangered animal with only several dozen believed to be left in the world. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimate the population of Sumatran rhinos to number less than 80 on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. A female rhino named Delilah gave birth to a yet-to-be-named male calf weighing 25 kilograms (55 pounds) at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, fathered by a rhino called Harapan. It was the fifth calf born under a semi-wild breeding program at the park, Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said in a statement. The new addition to the Sumatran rhino herd at Way Kambas, which numbers 10, comes after another baby Sumatran rhino was born there in September.

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#Science #Ecology #Conservation #Sumatran Rhino #Rhinoceros #Rhinos

[wachinyeya]

#good news #science #nature #environmentalism #environment #animals #conservation #rhinos #white rhino #africa #african white rhino

[feather-bone]

White rhino! The second largest land animal after the elephant, at up to 5000lbs! White and black rhinos are both grey-ish, but can be distinguished by their lips - white rhinos have a squarish upper lip while black rhinos have a distinctively pointed upper lip.

[ID: an illustration of a rhine facing left, with its head dipped low. It is on a simple grassland background with mountains in the background. End.]

#rhino #rhinos #rhinoceros #white rhino #animals #daily creature

[snototter]

A white rhinocerous (Ceratotherium simum) in Kruger National Park, South Africa

by Gary Faulkner

#white rhinocerous #white rhino #rhinos #ceratotherium simum #ceratotherium #Rhinocerotidae #perissodactyla #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: south africa #wildlife: africa

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Caniformia. This suborder of Carnivora contains dogs, foxes, bears, otters, badgers, raccoons, skunks, seals, and walruses.

Perissodactyla. This order is also known as the odd-toed ungulates because they (mostly) have hooves and bear weight on one or three toes. It is made up of equines, rhinos, and tapirs.

#pitting two bad bitches against each other #or; bad bitches against bad mares #animals #biology #polls #zoology #dogs #foxes #bears #raccoons #skunks #seals #mammals #tetrapods #horses #donkeys #rhinos #Caniformia #Perissodactyla #0x1fv0x60

[clawmarks]

Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere - G. H. Schubert - 1889 - via Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

#scientific illustration #elephants #rhinos

[nobrashfestivity]

François-Xavier Lalanne, Rhinocrétaire I, original made in 1967

© François-Xavier Lalanne, ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2023

#decorative arts #rhinos #François-Xavier Lalanne #sculpture

[antiqueanimals]

Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

#mammals #pachyderms #rhinos #indian rhinoceros #Cuthbert Edmund Swan

[rebeccathenaturalist]

There are under 16,000 white rhinos left in the wild; the northern subspecies is functionally extinct, with only two older females left in the world. So all that remain are a few thousands southern white rhinos, to include those in captivity.

The guy who owned this white rhino ranch lobbied to have the South African ban on rhino horn sales lifted, even though there are international bans still in place such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. He had cut the horns of his rhinos to keep them from being poached, and stored them away. In spite of having hundreds of millions of dollars worth of horns in his possession, he wasn't able to continue buying feed for 2,000 rhinoceroses, hence the sale.

I don't know whether that sale includes the detached horns or not. It's maddening that as we approach 2024 there are still people who will pay exorbitant fees for rhino horns as a medication even though there's zero evidence it has any effectiveness, and there are likely collectors who want one simply to have it due to their rarity. I don't know enough about the potential for legalizing trade in horns cut off of living rhinos with the aim of making poaching less lucrative to have an opinion either way, but having seen how much misrepresentation and outright lying can happen in the global trade of animal remains I'm not feeling optimistic about this as a solution.

I am, however, grateful that this massive herd of highly endangered animals--about 15% of the world population of white rhinos--are now in the hands of those who are going to get them back out into the wild, albeit in protected areas. Here's hoping that these rescued rhinos will be able to add more genetic diversity back into the wild populations and strengthen them for the future.

#rhinoceros #rhinos #ungulates #perissodactyla #mammals #wildlife #endangered species #endangered animals #extinction #nature #animals #conservation #environment #animal welfare #scicomm #charismatic megafauna #megafauna #rewilding #habitat restoration

[acti-veg]

How big a deal for conservation is 2,000 rhinos? “The opportunity is endless. They have massive ecological value, the ability to maintain and shape landscapes … as well as economic value, for tourism, and community value. It’s a massive undertaking for conservation, but the end vision is a massive win.”

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