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The black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species o rhinoceros, hamelt in eastren an central Africae includin Kenyae, Tanzanie, Cameroon, Sooth Africae, Namibie, Zimbabwe, an Angolae. Altho the rhinoceros is referred tae as black, its colours vary frae broun tae gray.
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Black rhinoceros or huik-lippit rhinoceros[1] | |
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Male sooth-wastren black rhinoceros in Etosha Naitional Pairk. | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Faimily: | Rhinocerotidae |
Genus: | Diceros Gray, 1821 |
Species: | D. bicornis |
Binomial name | |
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Subspecies | |
Diceros bicornis bicornis † | |
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Historical black rhinoceros range (ca. 1700 A.D.).[3] Hatched: Possible historical range in Wast Africae.[4] | |
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Current black rhinoceros range native reintroduced introduced possibly extinct extinct | |
Synonyms | |
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The ither African rhinoceros is the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The wird "white" in the name "white rhinoceros" is a misinterpretation o the Afrikaans wird wyd, itself derived frae the Dutch wird wijd for wide, referrin tae its square upper lip, as opponed tae the pyntit or huiked lip o the black rhinoceros. These species are nou whiles referred tae as the square-lipped (for white) or huik-lipped (for black) rhinoceros.[5]
The species oweraw is classifee'd as critically endangered, an ane subspecies, the wastren black rhinoceros, wis declared extinct bi the IUCN in 2011.[6][7]
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