Javan rhinoceros
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is a herbivorous browser that belongs to the order of the Perissodactyla and is one of the three species of rhino native to Asia. Scientists think about 60 are alive.[1]
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| Species: | R. sondaicus
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822
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Javan Rhinoceros Media
The Indian rhinoceros pictured here is the species most closely related to the Javan rhinoceros; they are the two members of the type genus Rhinoceros.
Java's Ujung Kulon National Park is the home of all remaining Javan rhinos.
A museum specimen of a juvenile R. s. sondaicus
A painting from 1861 depicts the hunting of R. s. sondaicus
A Dutch hunter with a dead R. s. sondaicus in Ujung Kulon, 1895
Head of a male R. s. annamiticus shot in Perak on the Malay Peninsula
Rhino tormenting the damned in the "heaven and hell" gallery at Angkor Wat (12th century)
References
- ↑ Setiawan, R.; Gerber, B. D.; Rahmat, U. M.; Daryan, D.; Firdaus, A. Y.; Haryono, M.; Khairani, K. O.; Kurniawan, Y.; Long, B.; Lyet, A.; Muhiban, M. (2018). "Preventing Global Extinction of the Javan Rhino: Tsunami Risk and Future Conservation Direction". Conservation Letters. 11 (1): e12366. doi:10.1111/conl.12366.