HOME: Forests with open clearings, scrub, and forested savannas, always near water, in Africa 

LIFE SPAN: 50 years 

LOOKS: THe adult black rhino is 10 to 12 feet long, about the size of a large station wagon! It's weight can be up to 2500 pounds. Two horns, which are really tightly packed hairs, are close together on their nose. Their eyesight is so bad that rhinos run into bushes and trees. They have excellent hearing and good sense of smell. 

FOOD: Shoots and twigs of mimosa and other woody, thorny bushes. 

HABITS: Rhinos are unpredictable and unsocialable. When the rhino sees a stranger they charge, running up to 20 to 35 miles an hour. They will then lower their heads and strike with their horns. During the hottest time of day they stretch out on one side or they will bathe in cooling swamps. When they cover their bodies with mud it keeps parasites away. Poachers hunt the black rhino for their horns, which are used for Oriental folk medicine to cure sickness, or they use them to make handles for daggers. The Black Rhino is an endangered species. 

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