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Type the sidebar content. A sidebar is a standalone supplement to the main document. It is often aligned on the left or right of the page, or located at the top or bottom. Use the Drawing Tools tab to change the formatting of the sidebar text box.] • Rhinoceros There are three species of Asian rhinoceros which are quite distinct from the African types. The population of Indian, or greater one-horned, rhinoceroses left in India and Nepal has shrunk to about 1,700. The Sumatran rhino (also called the hairy rhino) with an average height of 1.4m and weight of 1,000kg, currently numbers about 500, and it is widely dispersed in the forests of Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and, possibly, Kampuchea, Laos, and Vietnam. Though rhinoceros have extraordinary muscle structure which gives them the ability to turn and change directions incredibly fast, yet their vision is extremely poor. The Indian rhinoceros are a ferocious species with thick, folded skin overlain with tubercles which resembles iron rivets; this gives them an impression of being clad with metal armour. At the moment, we may need not to worry about the Indian rhino species for their numbers are increasing (from about 970 in 1975 to 1,600 today) not only in the Chitawan Park but also in Kaziranga Park in Assam, India. There are another hundred or so outside the two parks. But the other two Asian species—the Javan and the Sumatran—present special difficulties for there is no record of either of these in any zoo in the world today, let alone a breeding pair. Despite the efforts of the World Wildlife, there are probably only about 65 live Javan rhinos in free range today. Today, there are more Sumatran rhinos than Javan rhinos with some 500, which are too widely separated to survive. Essentially, poaching for their hides and horns and habitat loss endangered these animals. The fear here is that humans should not exploit the few extant rhinoceros into extinction just like the baluchitherium (a large extinct rhinoceros that ranged in Asia during the Oligocene epoch). 
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