Like all extinct tundra animals, it requires a glacier in its exhibit to be fully comfortable. The woolly rhinoceros is a Tundra animal, although it will also tolerate Alpine and Boreal Forest. In Campaign and Challenge mode, it is available for adoption once a zoo reaches a rating of 3.5 stars.
The woolly rhinoceros is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon 2 and was added as part of the Extinct Animals expansion pack.
Like many large Ice Age animals, it is believed that a combination of climate change and overhunting by humans led to the woolly rhino's extinction. The woolly rhinoceros was common across Europe and Asia, featuring in many cave paintings. Along with intraspecific combat and defense, it is possible they used their horns - the front one reaching over a meter in length - to move deep snow in order to uncover vegetation. Woolly rhinos, like modern rhinos, were herbivorous, feeding mainly on grasses and sedges that grew on the steppes using their wide upper lips to pluck the vegetation. Its thick hairy coat, known to be a reddish-brown color, and large fatty shoulder hump were both adaptations to the cold climates in which it lived. It was similar in size to a modern day White Rhinoceros, but may have been heavier, with a maximum weight of 2700kg (6000lb) being estimated. The remains of plants, insects and small vertebrates found together with the Starunia rhino have helped to elucidate the environment and climate of the Pleistocene in the foothills of the Carpathians.The Woolly Rhinoceros is a species of rhinoceros that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch. The silhouette of the rhino was quickly adopted as the logo of the Museum. Woolly rhinoceros, either of two extinct species of rhinoceros found in fossil deposits of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (5.3 million to 11700 years. Unfortunately the hooves and horns of the rhino have not endured, and its hair has persevered only on small fragments of skin.
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Jan Stach in 1929, using the authentic skin of the animal prepared from the carcass. The reconstruction of the rhino was performed according to the concept of prof. The specimen is a young female that died about 30 thousand years ago. As the last and most derived member of the Pleistocene rhinoceros lineage. The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna. The genus name Coelodonta means 'cavity tooth'. The discovery was made in 1929 in a village in contemporary Ukraine, about 100 km to the southeast of Lvov. The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia1 during the Pleistocene epoch and survived the last glacial period. Up to now, the specimen from Starunia is the only completely preserved specimen in the world, including organs and soft tissues. The Museum houses the mounted skin of the woolly rhino, a reconstruction of its skeleton prepared by Jan Stach, as well as a gypsum cast showing the original position of the animal at the Starunia site.įrom the middle of the XVIII only several, usually small fragments of woolly rhinoceros bodies have been unearthed. The preservation of the body of the rhino was possible because of the brine deposits and mineral wax (ozokerite) occurring at the site. Sebastian Street one of the most valuable specimens in the world.
The exceptional state of preservation of the woolly rhinoceros from Starunia, complete with internal organs and soft tissues, makes the specimen housed in the Natural History Museum of the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences on St. The head, narrowing towards the front, was equipped with two huge horns. Dense fur and thick, long hair on the body protected these animals from heat loss during the severe winters of the glaciations. Adults were about 2 meters in height, 5 meters in length and weighed approximately 3.5 tons. The woolly rhinoceros consumed mostly grasses and lichens. Aside from the woolly mammoth, it was the largest herbivore of the ice ages. The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct mammal species from the Late Pleistocene that occurred throughout Eurasia, from the Pyrenees to Siberia. The woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis from Starunia