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ENDANGERED ANIMAL RHINOCEROS

ENDANGERED ANIMAL RHINOCEROS. A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY ANANT JAIN. Rhinos – Under Danger. The Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros or the Asian One-horned Rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicorns ) is a large mammal primarily found in north-eastern India and Nepal.

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ENDANGERED ANIMAL RHINOCEROS

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  1. ENDANGERED ANIMALRHINOCEROS A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY ANANT JAIN

  2. Rhinos – Under Danger

  3. The Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros or the Asian One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicorns) is a large mammal primarily found in north-eastern India and Nepal

  4. The beautiful rhino's are getting extinct ! • The world rhino population has fallen by more than 90 percent in the past 30 years.

  5. DO YOU KNOW ?? • The Indian Rhinoceros can run at speeds of up to 25 mph (40 km/h) for short periods of time and is also an excellent swimmer. • It has excellent senses of hearing and smell, but relatively poor eyesight

  6. MORE ABOUT RHINO • Today, about 3,000 Indian Rhinos live in the wild, 1,800 of which are found in India's Assam alone. • Rhino is a major success of conservation. Only 100 remained in the early 1900s; a century later, their population has increased to about 2500 again, but even so the species is still endangered. • The Indian rhino is illegally poached for its horn

  7. SOME MORE INTERESTING FACTS • Better conservation efforts during past years had led to an increase in the rhino population from about 1,550 in 1999 to 1,850 in 2006. • 25 RHINOSKilled in Assam in the past 13 months, 20 in Kaziranga • 81 RHINOSDied of natural causes in the same period • $35,000The price of a rhino horn in the international market, mainly in China, where it’s considered an aphrodisiac

  8. THANK YOU ANANT JAIN V-E /WING-B

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