{"id":15676,"date":"2023-10-09T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:31:56","slug":"javan-rhinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/javan-rhinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Javan Rhinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Javan Rhino<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Javan rhino, also known as the <strong>lesser-one-horned rhino<\/strong>, is the <strong>most threatened of the five rhino species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: <\/strong><i><strong>Rhinoceros sondaicus<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>once lived throughout northeast India and Southeast Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Today<\/strong>, the <strong>entire population<\/strong> of the Javan rhinos <strong>is found in the Ujung Kulon National Park<\/strong> on the very western tip of <strong>Java, Indonesia<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: They inhabit <strong>forests, marshy areas<\/strong>, and <strong>regions of thick bush and bamboo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population<\/strong>: In 2020, park managers, relying on camera trap data to identify and track the animals, estimated that no more than <strong>68\u201374 surviving individuals<\/strong> remained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>smaller and lighter relative of the greater one-horned rhino<\/strong>. They can reach a <strong>height of 1.7 m<\/strong> (5.6 ft) and <strong>weigh up to 2,300 kg <\/strong>(5,070 lb).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>grey or grey-brown skin<\/strong>, almost <strong>black when wet<\/strong>, with <strong>pink colouring in the folds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Similar to the Indian rhino, the <strong>Javan rhinoceros has a single horn<\/strong>, unlike the other three species of rhinos, which have two.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has the <strong>smallest of horns for all species <\/strong>of rhinoceros measuring less than <strong>20 cm (7.9 in) in length.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifespan<\/strong>: <strong>30 to 45 years<\/strong> in the wild.<\/li>\n<li>They\u2019re <strong>herbivorous<\/strong>, only eating plants.<\/li>\n<li>They\u2019re <strong>solitary animals<\/strong>, except for mating pairs and mothers with young.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the world\u2019s most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species. Open to all, it is used by governmental bodies, non-profit organisations, businesses and individuals.It provides information about species\u2019 range, population size, habitats and ecology, use and trade, threats, and conservation actions that help inform conservation decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2023\/10\/javan-rhino-calf-endangered-species-ujung-kulon-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indonesia reports a new Javan rhino calf, but population doubts persist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Javan rhino, also known as the lesser-one-horned rhino, is the most threatened of the five rhino species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}