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SpeciesPerissodactylaRhinocerotidae
Mammals

🦏Indian rhinoceros

Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus, 1758

Intiansarvikuono (Rhinoceros unicornis) on Intiassa ja Nepalissa elävä vaarantunut sarvikuonolaji.

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Measurements
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≈ 26× your weight
Also called
Great Indian Rhinoceros, Greater Indian Rhinoceros, Greater One-horned Rhino, Greater One-horned Rhinoceros, Indian One-horned Rhinoceros
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1,600 kg
Body length
3.77 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
49 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian rhinoceros

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1,600 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1,602 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
3.77 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
49 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 44 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
19 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
5.7 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
1.3 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.3 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
4.23 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
6.08 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1,600 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Indian rhinoceros yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the Indian rhinoceros

Closest relative on this site
🦏 Javan rhinoceros — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.9 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants80%
fruit20%
In other languages
Panzernashorn (de), Rhinoceros unicornis (es), Rhinocéros indien (fr), nosorożec indyjski (pl), Rinoceronte-indiano (pt), 印度犀牛 (zh) … and 27 more languages

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