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Rhino beetle.

This beetle is one of the most large and interesting. In addition, it is rare and listed in the Red book.

Rhino beetle and really looks like its big namesake. He also has one horn on the nose, he's just as slow and clumsy, so encased in a shell chitin, Rhino in a thick skin.

But only Rhino-insect, unlike mammal rhinoceros, flies. He prefers to rise into the air in the dark, so to see the flight of a large beetle size of up to 7 centimeters not so easy.

Paws Rhino beetle well digging, and it eats contaminated plant food: rubbish trees or woody juice, do not hesitate and manure.

The rhinoceros-females on the nose only a small mound, and size it smaller. Interestingly, both male and female look like Rhino's only a small part of his life. Just about a year they beetles, and up to 4 years larva grows and develops. It grows even more than the Rhino beetle - to 8 centimeters.

Zhukov-rhinos are becoming fewer, and the factors influencing the changes in the populations of the rhinoceros, not investigated. People collect rare beetles except for collections, but in places where beetle protect, and throughout it.