The rhinos we have and the ones we lost.
In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.
In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.
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And within the surviving rhinos, the Sumatran rhinoceros is the only one left of the tribe Dicerorhinini that once included Stephanorhinus and Coelodonta. Alarmingly, the Sumatran rhino is down to less than a hundred animals.
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