still before not far too long time rhinoceros held the pointed-lip-rhinoceros for the most frequent one and therefore didn't endanger. Unfortunately, one has the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses with all the efforts to obtain the protection of the other representatives of the rhinoceroses one little from the eye lost and the animals not it them actually proper protection gives, so that today also the black rhinoceros as has to be valid from the extinction of threatened type of animal. The animals are poached in particular, because pulverizes its horns in southeast-Asia as aphrodisiac (love-strengthener) is valid and is paid very dearly.
Shape With a shoulder-height of 1,50-1,60 m, a length of 3-3,75 m and the pointed-lip-rhinoceros belongs to the colossuses of the wildlife to a weight of up to 2000 kg. It possesses two, in rare exceptions even three nose-horns, of which the fore one can reach up to over 1,30 m of length, in both sexes. Normally, it will essentially not exceed 50-80 cm, however. Like the tank-rhinoceros, the pointed-lip-rhinoceros possesses a finger-nicely extended waiter-lip, that eases the seizing the food. The skin is bare and smooth as far as on the ear-edges and the tail-top and possesses lying skin folds at the flank in the height of the chest to the body-longitudinal-axis crosswise.
The name "Black Rhinoceros" is "white rhinoceros" like the name for the width-lip-rhinoceros as well misleading. Because the coloring of the skin is only a proof also with the black rhinoceros for the type of the ground, in which the sand and Schlammsuhlen of the animals are. So, there is white, red also with them and just also black "whitewashed" types, ever after, in which area the animals are exactly. The bare skin always is middle-gray.
Habitat Pointed-lip-rhinoceroses live in even bigger area of east and South Africa. its total-continuance in the wild is estimated thousand individuals on only little. A not insignificant number of animals, who live in the zoological gardens of the world, comes to it because the pointed-lip-rhinoceros should be this at the the most frequently shown rhinoceros.
Way of life In areas, in which the animals enjoy extensive protection, we find it over on the way the whole day. However, this changes in areas with stronger threat. There, the activity-top transfers to the night more and more. As habitat, the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses prefer the dry steppe, however also bush-savanna and semi-desert. They go on that occasion as far as in heights of 2700 m. Although the animals love waters in its proximity and like to oversleep the hot midday in Schlammsuhlen, however, they avoid muggy areas. In big community-territories, larger groups of rhinoceroses live relatively location-faithfully without claiming however solid own-districts. Within these big territories, the animals wander much and celebrate solid changes, that lead to the pasture-places and roosts from the bath and Suhlplätzen, on that occasion like all rhinoceroses. In newer time, one also observed that several animals also disappear completely from the community-territories at times.
Within these areas, one sees the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses usually individually or in small groups, that consist of the rule from a mother with its calf or a pair situated in Brunft. More rarely once, also two or three bulls join together. The pairs separate usually immediately after the heat. It was however also observed already that they still were together after it up to four months. The young remain approximately up to the 3. Year of life with the mother.
Although the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses don't claim any own-districts, one can register certain forms of marking-behavior. So, the females urinate when committing the changes in regular distances on the ground without pausing in the run. Also the bulls splash urine against bushes and shrubs to the back. The excrement-depositing takes place on solid excrement-storage space-places mostly. After the dung-depositing, the rhinoceroses scratch the excrement with the rear-feet apart. Only rarely once, the dung is given away also on the changes. One assumes that these types of markings are not rather the smell-like contact of the individuals so very much among each other conducive for the territorial-name is.
Pointed-lip-rhinoceroses are good runners, that usually put back up to 10 km in the leisurely walk to the troughs daily. If they have it more hastily, the animals of a strolling, immensely elegantly working trot serve themselves or even the also very fluently running out gallop. Like all rhinoceroses swims and wallows the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses very gladly and extensively, can swim extremely badly, however. they are very short-sighted, hear and smell marked, however. The consequences of its extreme short-sightedness often were lent these animals as maliciousness and aggressiveness. So, they often suddenly are from pointed-lip-rhinoceroses and fast executed "attacks" on foreign objects nothing else but reconnaissance-ventures, that make possible for them recognizing an animal or an object exactly. The animals turn away for this reason normally also directly before the auszukundschaftenden object.
This behavior indeed already very often now turned the gray ream into the undoing, because so "found out" people usually don't protect the nerves the human weather until the rhinoceros picked up and withdraws voluntarily. they shoot the animal normally before the alleged attack could become dangerous for them. However it cannot be withheld in this context that however, real attacks on people and cars, that then have very serious consequences mostly, now and then are recited exactly by pointed-lip-rhinoceroses. It almost always is about animals hurt in any form of the human being in such cases, however.
Opposite other types, pointed-lip-rhinoceroses are extremely peaceful. they hardly have enemies and acknowledge the elephant as superior. A lion can merely the young occasionally or at the water-places also once a river-horse or crocodile dangerous becomes.
The pointed tapered waiter-lip expels the pointed-lip-rhinoceroses already as specialized herbivores, who eat especially gladly fresh branches, foliage and young shoots. They take also longer grass-tuft and occasionally the excrement of other animals beside it, so for example from the gnu.
Reproduction Pointed-lip-rhinoceroses don't have any solid heat-times, d. h., Combinations can the whole year over takes place. The heat-duration of the female amounts to 3 - 4 days in the average. If a cow is brünstig, a bull usually immediately joins her. The animals frequently face themselves and sniff the mouth, with what they let strange throttle-lutes sound, for itself. Usually, the fight-game, with which the cow often rams its partner strongly severely into the flank the horn of drangsaliert and it, then occurs. Add a second bull on top of this, it is not attacked by the first, but the female only decides which male it prefers. The combination even takes place in the form usual for the rhinoceroses (tank-rhinoceros) and lasts up to 22 minutes. After a Tragzeit of 419-476 days, the female brings to the world normally 1 well developed young. It is suckled for 11/2-2 years and stays with the mother approximately 3 years. The sexually mature steps with females with 41/2, with bulls with 6-7 years one. The maximum-age is in human-care with 46 years.
Protection The pointed-lip-rhinoceros is presented in the appendix II of the Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommens. The trade with these animals is subject to strict rules, that are hurt by Wilderei and black market again and again, however.
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