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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Rhinoceros unicornis

Rhinoceros unicornis is one of the huge animal. It belongs to the order perrisodactyla of class mammalia. This is the huge bodied mammal. Its distribution is in African continent as well as in the Asian continent. In Asia this animal is found in the countries like India, Nepal and Nepal. It is also found to be distributed in the south east countries like Indonesia , Sumatra etc.
Rhinoceros has the huge body with tons of weight. Its body is divisible into head, neck. trunk and tail. Head hinregion consists of special horn which is epidermal in origin. The name Rhinoceros unicornis signifies to the presence off single horn in its head region. Some rhinoceros have two horns in the head region. They are known as Rhinoceros bicornis. Rhinoceros bicornis or two horned Rhino are found to be distributed in a the African continent but not in Asian continent. But single horned Rhino is distributed in Asian continent but not in Africa.
Single horned Rhino which is distributed in Asia is found mainly in the dense forests of the tropical countries like Nepal.

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