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Black Rhino

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This photograph was created in the South African bush, by a public health field investigator, and depicts a young grazing black rhinoceros, a species studied using conservation endocrinology, with its two-horned snout, and leathery, wrinkled skin. Overall, the black rhino, Diceros bicornis, is classified as critically endangered, with three of the subspecies having been declared extinct in 2011, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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CDC/ Jessie Blount

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