AMOROUS RHINO HEADS FOR HAREM.Byline: Daily News The first rhinoceros rhinoceros, massive hoofed mammal of Africa, India, and SE Asia, characterized by a snout with one or two horns. The rhinoceros family, along with the horse and tapir families, forms the order of odd-toed hoofed mammals. born in captivity in a century will soon be shipped back to its native land by the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. . Andalas, a 6-year-old male Sumatran rhinoceros The Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is the smallest extant rhinoceros species, as well as the one with the most fur, which allows it to survive at very high altitudes in Borneo and Sumatra. weighing at least 1,300 pounds, will be transported to Indonesia this week to breed with other rhinos. "Andalas' journey to Indonesia is vital to the future of Sumatran rhinos," said John Lewis, the zoo's general manager, in a statement. "The breeding program is just one example of the extent zoos will go to in order to save a species from extinction." Andalas, born at the Cincinnati Zoo from a female rhino on loan from L.A., was the first rhino born in captivity since an 1889 zoo birth in Calcutta, India. He will join two female rhinos at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park Way Kambas National Park is a large national park covering 1,300 square kilometres in Lampung province, southern Sumatra, Indonesia. Way Kambas consists of swamp forest and lowland rain forest, but was extensively logged before becoming a reserve in 1972 so there is little on the island of Sumatra. Considered the most endangered of all rhino species, Sumatran rhinos are thought to number less than 300 in isolated pockets of Malaysia and Indonesia. In the past 20 years, 70 percent of Sumatran rhinos have been decimated by poaching poaching: see cooking. , mostly for their valuable horns. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Andalas, a 6-year-old male Sumatran rhinoceros weighing at least 1,300 pounds, will be transported to Indonesia this week to breed. Los Angeles Zoo |
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