The vulnerable greater one-horned rhino's population growth rate is really a success story in the Indian sub-continent. MONOJ GOGOI The greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) also known as Indian rhino is one of the largest herbivore mammals and on the planet. This one-horned rhinoceros is also the second heaviest, weighs 4,000-6,000 pounds, among the rhino species in the world while the heaviest rhinoceros is white rhino of Africa. The height of this dense protective skinned pachyderm is 5.75-6.5 feet and the length is 10-12.5 feet. Due to the loss of habitats, such as fragmentation of forests, tropical and sub-tropical grasslands, riverside forests, Savannah, decreasing of swamps, excessive poaching for it's horns, the population of the greater Indian rhino once declined sharply and restricted to only some foothill areas of the Himalayas, particularly in India and Nepal. And some rhino populated areas in these regions are still not secure from poachers; and i...
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