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Today there are only five species of rhinoceroses remaining in the wild: the black (2600 left), the white (8400 left), the Sumatran (300 left), Indian (2500 left), and Javan (60 left). The rhino can charge at thirty miles per hour.
Black Rhinoceroses mainly live in grassland-forest transition zones and savanna but they have been found in deserts.
The black rhinoceros' hooked upper lip is specially designed for browsing (feeding on trees and shrubs) and is one of its most distinguishing characteristics.
The rhino is endangered because of loss habitat and because it has been poached for its ivory horn.
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The Black Rhinoceros isn't really black (just like the white rhinoceros isn't really white) and was probably named for the color of the soil it wallowed in. It has two horns and it looks as if it's dressed in a ancient suit of armor. The horns of the rhinoceros are made out of keratin (the same material that finger nails are made of). They are about ten feet long and about five feet tall. They weigh 2,000 to 3,000 pounds. Rhinoceroses live about forty years. The black rhinoceros also has three toes on its feet.
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