Black rhinoceros
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The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), is a species of rhinoceros. It lives in eastern and central Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Angola. The black rhinoceros is not actually black, but dark. It is a browser, with lips that help eating from low branches.
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Genus: | Diceros Gray, 1821 |
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Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Historical black rhinoceros range (c 1700 AD) |
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