World Rhino Day | Dazzling and cute big head, and watching "rhinos"

It grows in African grasslands and is huge in size and is known as the world's second continental mammalian. It seems bulky, but once it runs, it will throw people who can't dodge to the ground, causing unpredictable losses.

A best -selling book "Gray Rhino" allows rhinos to enter more people's vision, and many people have determined that "rhinos are gray." But is rhino really gray?

Video production reporter Shi Chengcheng

Gray rhino? White rhino!

Rhino is the "permanent population" of Ningbo Wild Zoo. Since opening the park in 2004, they have lived here for nearly 20 years.

At first glance, rhinoceros is really gray. But look at the popular science bar next to it, but it reads "white rhinos". "White rhinos refer to them belong to the genus of Rhinocean, but their skin is indeed gray." Said the staff of Ningbo Wildlife Park.

If you feel that the gray skin color is not good enough, the white rhinos can also "change color": especially when the weather is hot, they like to roll in the quagmire, which can "sunscreen", regulate body temperature, but also drive mosquitoes. The skin color is also along with The color of the mud changes.

Only the rhinoceros has a thick rhino horns? The mother is also fine!

The two white rhinos of the Ningbo Wild Zoo are one male and one mother, and "Fang Ling" is 25 years old. Generally speaking, rhino life is about 35 years old. These two have entered the middle and elderly people.

For nearly 20 years, two white rhinos have still enjoyed the "two -person world" so far. Compared with the tedious childcare and babies, they obviously prefer the "Buddhist life" of daze, grass, and sleeping.

Under the appearance of gray, how to distinguish them "who is who"?

In addition to the size of the body, the staff of the Ningbo Wild Zoo also revealed a tips: the rhino horns on the head, the rhino horns are thick and long, the mother rhinos; the rhino horns are relatively "inconspicuous", which is the male rhino.

"This is also the characteristic of our male rhino. Generally speaking, the corner of the male rhino will be bigger and more sharp." The staff said.

The mother of Ningbo Wild Zoo has a thick rhino horns. Reporter Shi Chengcheng

The bulky "big guy"? It can also be very flexible

Adult rhino weighing can reach 2 to 3 tons, second only to the elephant.

In many people's impression, such a huge rhino should be a dumb, clumsy guy. "In fact, they can also run up." Said the staff of Ningbo Wild Zoo.

It's like to prove that he is a "flexible fat man", and the mother really trot a few steps around the venue.

"When they are happy, they will run, and they will run when they are unhappy or nervous." The staff said that when they were happy, they would shake their heads and shake their heads; when they are nervous, they will stare at the direction.

However, most of the time, rhinos are "emotional stability", and it is also difficult to see them running.

Bladder is proportional to the formation? The peacocks that occasionally break in can scare them

"It's much better now. Occasionally, there were occasional peacocks to break through their territory. There was nothing about the peacocks, but they were scared to be frightened." Said the staff of Ningbo Wild Zoo.

Sometimes, if a stranger passes or disturbed or slightly disturbed by their cage, they will not dare to return the cage. The breeder can only accompany them silently until they go back voluntarily.

Perhaps because they are inherently timid, their daily behavior is very cautious.

When you stay next to the exhibition area, you will find that their two ears have been "turning". The staff says that they are said to have a good vision, so their hearing is very sensitive, just like radar, "where the sound comes from, their ears will look at."

After living in Ningbo Wild Zoo for so many years, they have become accustomed to the days when they were watched by tourists. They dared to eat grass in front of tourists, rather than before, and slowly stomped into the distance when they found that someone approached.

Are they common in the zoo? Look at the "rhino"

Although my country does not produce rhinos, rhinos have a little mysterious color in history.

There are ancient books that a rhinocer is called Tiantian Rhino, which is regarded as a kind of spiritual thing, so it is also called "spirit rhino".The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin even left the eternal famous sentence of "there is no colorful phoenix flying wing, and the heart has a little rhinoceros"; the folk will also use the beasts of the flood to be called "Zhenshui Rhino".However, in real life, especially in the wild, rhino life is unsatisfactory.

It is said that only more than 25,000 rhinos in the world live in the wild in Africa and Asia.

In addition to the white rhinos, there are also black rhinos, Sumatra rhino, Java rhino, and Indian rhino, which are all included in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Nature Conservation Alliance", two of which are on the edge of nearly extinct, and the remaining three are also on the end of it.Threat state.

Reporter Shi Chengcheng

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