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Rhinoceros Short Essay

There are five types of rhinoceros that live in Africa and Southern Asia, including the Sumatran, Indian, Javan, white, and black rhinoceros. Rhinoceroses have thick skin, are very powerful, and have one or two large horns on their nose from which they derive their name. They are becoming extinct due to poaching for their horns, which are used to make traditional medicines and tools.

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Rhinoceros Short Essay

There are five types of rhinoceros that live in Africa and Southern Asia, including the Sumatran, Indian, Javan, white, and black rhinoceros. Rhinoceroses have thick skin, are very powerful, and have one or two large horns on their nose from which they derive their name. They are becoming extinct due to poaching for their horns, which are used to make traditional medicines and tools.

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Appendix 1

Rhinoceros

Have you ever seen a rhinoceros? You might have seen one at a zoo or you might have
seen a picture of one. They are unusual animals. They have thick skin (up to two inches
thick) and are very powerful. It is a rhinoceros feels that its babies are in danger, it will
even charge at an elephant.

The rhinoceros gets its name from rhino, which means nose, and ceros, which means
horn. The rhinoceros has a big horn in the middle of its nose, some have twho horns
instead of one, so you can see how the name fits! Rhinoceroses (also called rhinos) live
in Africa and Southern Asia.

There are five types of rhinos. Sumatran, Indian, and Javan Rhinos live in Asia. White
Rhinos and Black Rhinos live in Africa. There used to be many more rhinos in other
parts of the world, too (including one kind called a Gaint Unicorn), but the rhino is
becoming extinct. People hunt rhinos for their horns. The horns are used to make tools
and some traditional medicines.

The rhinoceros is a mammal. This means that it has babies (not eggs) that it feeds with
its own milk. It is a herbivore. This means it only eats plants.

Rhinos can weigh around 3000 to 5000 pounds, and they can live up to fifty years old.

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