Indian rhinoceros  (Rhinoceros unicornis)

Range

Previously found throughout the northern Indian sub-continent. Scattered populations now occur only in northeast India, Bhutan and Nepal (1).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

These rhinos preferentially inhabit floodplain grasslands and adjacent swamps and forests but recent habitat loss has forced them into more cultivated land (2).

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