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rhinoceros

rahy no suh ruhs

  • n  massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout

  • Lumpy-hided, gargoyle-headed, hideously monstrous, the single-horned Indian rhinoceros is fine to look at in a zoo but no creature to have around a palace.
  • As unicorn expert (yes, they do exist), Odell Shepard explained in The Lore of the Unicorn, Ctesias most likely fused details of multiple creatures, including the Indian rhinoceros .
  • Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the So Paulo zoo, whose .
News & Articles

  • Power plays
    Theatre Rhinoceros presents the Bay Area premiere of Caryl Churchill's 'Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?'
    June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Bay Guardian
  • Drone & New UMD Tech Help Protect Wildlife from Poachers
    A series of "flawless" test flights have shown that unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, combined with anti-poaching computer software can successfully protect rhinoceros from poachers in the ...
    June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
  • Terrapin Drone Gives Rhino Poachers Reason to Fear the Turtle
    COLLEGE PARK, MD --(Marketwired - June 11, 2013) - Guided by computer modeling developed by a University of Maryland visiting scholar, the first unmanned aerial vehicle flights of their kind have successfully protected wild rhinoceros in a South African rhino poaching hot spot.
    June 11, 2013 - Marketwire
Quotes

  • Ian Paisley in BBC News
    When asked about his future, Mr Paisley told one journalist: "I have a fairly hard rhinoceros skin - and I think I will not be skinned by you or the likes of you."
  • Edward Norton in NBC New York
    It literally is lions and elephants and giraffes and rhinoceros and things like that there,Norton said, according to the Daily News. "So if there's any ecosystem that's under threat on the planet that everybody has a sense of connection...
  • Jack Hanna in Earthtimes (press release)
    I'm a long-time user of Zicam Cold Remedy and an avid rhinoceros conservationist, so when they called me about this campaign, I knew it was the right partnership,said Jack Hanna , Director Emeritus, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. "Since 1970,...

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