The Javan Rhino is the most threatened rhino out of the five rhino species. There are only sixty currently in the wild, all living in the Ujung Kulung National Park in Jara, Indonesia.
This rhino has a dusky grey color, and their skin has loose folds so that it almost looks like armor plating. They have one horn about ten inches long. The Javan Rhino is 4.6 to 5.8 feet tall, and are 10 to 10.5 feet long. They usually weigh somewhere between 3000 and 5000 pounds.
The Javan Rhino is a herbivore. It eats a wide variety of plants, especially their shoots, twigs, and fallen fruit.
During colonial times, Javan Rhinos were hunted by trophy hunters, and were also killed as pests, and for their horn, highly prized in traditional Asian medicine. But poaching remained a threat, and it wiped out a subspecies scientists found in Vietnam in 2010. The Javan Rhino population neither declines nor increases due to disease, natural disasters, and invasive species.
DISEASE
Many rhinos in Ujung Kulung, especially females have died from disease because they are exposed to wild cattle inside the park, which passes along a deadly disease to the rhinos that does not affect the cattle.
NATURAL DISASTERS
Ujung Kulung National Park frequently gets small tsunamis, and is bordered by the Anak Krakata volcano, which at any time could erupt and kill the creatures within a five-mile radius.
INVASIVE SPECIES
A lot of the park has been taken over by the Arrenga Palm, an invasive species that leaves the area barren for the rhinos.
Sincerely,
The Poacher Poacher
