Indian One horned Rhinoceros - Central Zoo Authority

Mating in rhino is initiated by female which runs around the potential breeding male by
making loud sounds and frequently squirting urine and occasionally pushing the male.
The male rhino then takes over and chases female rhino for hours till the female rhino
gets exhausted and stays in one place and mating then takes place.
Distribution
The earliest recorded historical distribution of One horned rhinoceros in the Indian
subcontinent was along the flood
plains from northwestern Burma,
across the Gangetic Plain, to the
Indus River Valley in northern
Pakistan. From the nineteenth
century onwards land clearings
fragmented their habitat and hunting
reduced the populations. A
consequence of this was the
elimination of the species from all
areas except the Chitwan Valley,
lowland Bhutan, the Teesta Valley,
West Bengal, and the Brahmaputra
Valley in Assam.
The species is presently distributed
in several pockets with large
populations occurring in Kaziranga
National Park, India and Chitwan
National Park, Nepal and much
smaller populations occurring in
Pobitora, Orang, Jaldapara,
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