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Males are relatively larger than females. An adult black rhinoceros reaches 55 to 71 inches in height at the shoulder and typically weighs 1760 to 3090 pounds.brucii): this is an extinct subspecies that used to wander in central Sudan, Eritrea, northern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and northern and southeastern Somalia.

bicornis): this is an extinct subspecies that was once abundant in the Cape of Good Hope to Transvaal, South Africa and was labeled as the largest of all the subspecies.

Southern black rhinoceros or Cape black rhinoceros ( D.

The most accepted number of intraspecific variations of the black rhinoceros considers seven or eight subspecies, of which three reached extinction in ancient times and one is about to become extinct.

The species was initially named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in his 10th edition of Systema naturae in 1758 he referred to it as a “double-horned rhinoceros”.

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Effective conservation projects have seen black rhino numbers inch upward in the last few years however, they still remain critically endangered, with poaching for their horns causing a grave threat to their survival.

The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), also known as the hook-lipped rhinoceros, is the smaller of the two African rhino species.

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