The low number of positive cases and localized paucibacillary lesions support the hypothesis that white
rhinoceroses, although susceptible to infection, are able to limit disease progression (10).
Since there is no reproductive barrier in African black
rhinoceroses, the genetic diversity improvement will involve pilot outbreeding programs among the fragmented populations across the ecological range [5, 27, 29].
Prehistoric and fossil
rhinoceroses from the Malay Archipelago and India.
As per an official notice board on the outskirts of the park, Kaziranga has 1,552 Great One-horned
Rhinoceroses, 1,432 Asiatic Water Buffalos, 468 Eastern Swamp Deer, 1,048 Asiatic Elephants and 478 species of bird species.
So convincing was Durer's fanciful creation that for the next 300 years, European illustrators borrowed from his woodcut--even after they had seen living
rhinoceroses without plates and scales." (britishmuseum.org)
A World Heritage Site, the park hosts two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned
Rhinoceroses.
The diversity of Siwalik
rhinoceroses is clearly dependant on climatic conditions.
All of these scholars work primarily from tax and tribute records of the Tang dynasty to establish where
rhinoceroses might have been found; pharmacopoeias also provide some information.
But staff at the 110-acre zoo are hoping this won't deter the three-year-old greater one-horned
rhinoceroses from hitting it off so that they eventually hear the pitter-patter of rhino feet.
In his play Rhinoceros, for instance, he depicts a small, provincial town whose citizens turn into a huge herd of conforming, unfeeling, and unthinking
rhinoceroses. The one exception is Berenger, a kind of everyman character.
There's evidence of ancient monkeys, pigs, antelopes,
rhinoceroses, elephants, horses, giraffes, and mole rats.
With a staggering 60 percent population decline in the last 10 years, Sumatran
rhinoceroses number fewer than 300 today.
Some 2,500 Indian
rhinoceroses live in the wild in India and Nepal.
Nepal said Tuesday it will donate a pair of
rhinoceroses to Japan as symbols of friendship between the two countries, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said.
The earliest reference which links rhinoceros horn to wine drinking goes back to Confucius himself which dates back to around 500 BC at the time
rhinoceroses were still to be found within the borders of China.
