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When looking for a new residence, rhinos will tend to look for somewhere with a healthy supply of shrubs and woody herb and plant-life occur, and also a place with a nearby water source and mineral licks, that is within at least a 5-10 mile radius. Habitat: black rhino can occur in a range of habitats where there are sufficient resources to support them.Location: black rhino occur throughout southern and eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.The most distinguishable characteristic between a black and a white rhino is that black rhinos have a hooked lip, as opposed to a flat-based lip, which is related to their eating habits They also have a smaller head, as unlike the white rhino, they are browsers, so eat from higher bushes or trees, requiring less muscle strength around their necks than white rhinos. Distinctive characteristics: black rhinos are smaller than white rhinos, and have less of a pronounced hump on the back of their necks.The front (anterior) horn is longer than the rear (posterior) horn, averaging at around 50 cm long The horn is comprised of thousands of compressed hair-like strands of keratin (like hair and fingernail fibres), making it extremely hard and tough, but it can be broken or split during fighting. The shape of the horn also differs between sexes: with males tending to have thicker horns, and the females often longer and thinner ones.
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Rhinos from different areas can have horns of different shapes and sizes also vary.
#Western black rhinoceros skin
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