What made of rhinoceros horn?

Horn of rhinoceros horn is not veshtestvo.Toy a tightly packed clumps of keratin nishki.Keratinat is a protein that is found in hair and nails of humans and animals in the feathers of birds in the spines of hedgehogs and bumpers and a bonenostsite turtles.

Horned rhinos are the only animal whose horn is built entirely by keratin.Za Unlike cows, sheep, antelopes and giraffes their horn no bone sartsevina.Po skull dead rhinoceros no trace that he had his nose og; horn is attached on the rough surface on the skull over the nasal bone.

Horn of rhinoceros is most often raznishva if damaged or cut, but young rhinos can completely restore any damage to rog.Funktsiite of this horn are not fully known, as a female rhinoceros horn removed ceased to care for kids.

Rhinoceros is an endangered species mainly due to strong demand for their rogove.Rogat of many African rhinoceros has long been used in the Middle East, particularly in Yemen, for medicine and for making handles sabi.Sled 1970. over 67,000 kg of rhinoceros horns were imported into Yemen.Tay such as a horn on average 3 kg, this means that over 22,000 iziti rhinos.

A widespread fallacy is that rhinoceros horn to serve as afrodiziak.Kitayskite herbalists say that this is not true-it has more cooling than warming effect and is used in treating fevers and high blood pressure.

There are five species of rhinoceros: black, white, Indian, Java and Java sumatriyski.Ot nosoi are only about 60 copies koetooznachava that this is the fourth endangered animal in the world after the Vancouver marmot, Seychelles pokritoopashat rat and the South China tiger.

White rhinos are not beli.Imeto them comes from distortion of the South African word wyd, what does it mean shirok.Tova osnasyalo the mouth of the rhinoceros, not for his tour and white rhinos have mobile upper lip of the black with which they help each other when Chania from tree branches.

Nosotozite have an excellent sense of smell and hearing, but zreniyato plachevno.Te they are mostly single animals and is collected only for mating.

When surprised, rhinos meet with intenzivnino urine output and fekalii.Aziatskite nosorizi bite when attacked, only African nosotozi stitches with horns si.Vapreki short legs black nosotog can develop skoost of 55 km / h.