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Javan rhinoceros
photo: Alain Compost |
Asian Rhinos
Three of the world's five rhino species are found in Asia. The greater one-horned rhino inhabits floodplain grasslands and was once found across the entire northern part of the Indian subcontinent. Currently the species survives in a few populations in the borderlands of northeast India, Bhutan and Nepal.
Once widespread throughout Southeast Asia, the Javan rhino inhabits lowland tropical rainforests. Its principal population is located on the Ujung Kulon peninsula in Indonesia, with a second small population in Cat Loc Nature Reserve in Vietnam.
The Sumatran rhino inhabits dense tropical forest and once occurred widely from the foothills of the Himalayas in Bhutan and eastern India south through the Malay Peninsula to the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Current populations are scattered in the forests of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.
Asian rhinos
Greater one-horned (Indian)
Javan
Sumatran
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