Black Rhinoceros Male Horns

Description

Black Rhinoceros Male Horns Replicas are museum quality polyurethane cast. Black Rhinoceros Male Horns measure 34.6 in. and 13.3 in. Made in USA. Cast of original California Academy of Sciences specimen. Our precise horns can be used as a teaching tool, museum horns exhibit, home décor horns, or office décor horns. Shipping weight is 30 lbs. due to length.

The Black rhinoceros, Hook-lipped Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and southern Africa including Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although the rhinoceros is referred to as black, its colors vary from brown to grey.

The Black Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis can also be distinguished from the white rhinoceros by its size, smaller skull, and ears; and by the position of the head, which is held higher than the white rhinoceros, since the Black Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis is a browser and not a grazer.

This key differentiation is further illustrated by the shape of the two species mouths (lips): the “square” lip of the white rhinoceros is an adaptation for grazing, and the “hooked” lip of the black rhinoceros is an adaptation to help browsing.

The Black Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis species overall is classified as critically endangered (even though the south-western black rhinoceros is classified as near threatened). Three subspecies have been declared extinct, including the western Black Rhinoceros, which was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2011.

The Black Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis species was first named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema naturae in 1758. The name means “double-horned rhinoceros”.

There is some confusion about what exactly Linnaeus conceived under this name as this species was probably based upon the skull of a single-horned Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), with a second horn artificially added by the collector. Such a skull is known to have existed and Linnaeus even mentioned India as origin of this species.

Black Rhinoceros Facts:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Diceros
Species: D. bicornis
Binomial name: Diceros bicornis
Conservation status: Critically Endangered

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