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header: Indian Rhinoceros

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The Great Indian Rhinoceros has a single black horn, and a grey brown hide with skin folds, which gives it an armoured appearance. It is the largest of the three Asian Rhinoceros with a head-body length of 310-380 cm, and a shoulder height of 148-186 cm. Solitary by nature rhinos show no true territoriality, although breeding males occupy loose territorial ranges of 2 to 8 km. Temporary associations of a few sub-adults or adult males sometimes form at wallows or on grazing grounds. The Indian Rhino originally occurred mainly in alluvial plain grasslands, where the grass can grow up to 8 metres tall, but was also found in the adjacent swamps and forest . . .

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