Javan Rhinoceros

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Javan Rhinoceros | status = Conservation status: Critical | image = JavanRhinoceros2.jpg | image_width = 240px | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Perissodactyla | familia = Rhinocerotidae | genus = Rhinoceros | species = R. sondaicus | binomial = Rhinoceros sondaicus | binomial_authority = Desmarest, 1822 | range_map = Rhinoceros sondaicus distribution map.jpeg | range_map_width = 240px }} The Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is one of the rarest and most endangered large mammals anywhere in the world. According to 2002 estimates, only about 60 remain alive, in Indonesia and Vietnam. Even these tiny populations are still being poached and the outlook for the species is grim.

The Javan Rhinoceros occupied lowland rainforests through much of South-east Asia. It is grey in color, hairless, and adults typically weigh up to 1.4 tonnes. Like the closely related larger Indian Rhinoceros, it has only one horn, and in common with the almost equally endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros it is exclusively a browser on leaves rather than a grazer on grasses. Favoured feeding strategies include knocking down saplings to reach the leaves and shoots, and gathering fruit.

There are two subspecies:

Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) (Vietnam only 2 - 7 animals left)
Indonesian Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus) (Java 50 - 60 animals left)

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