I heard the twigs snap and the boughs swish aside before the heavy tread of the Horse-rhinoceros upon my right.
Your brains must be one fossiliferous deposit, in which gaur and sambur, hog and tiger, rhinoceros and elephant, lie heaped together, as the old ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs are heaped in the lias rocks at Lyme.
Northwards of Hitchin a flint flake has been found in the gravel of the Ouse at Hartford,[2506] near Huntingdon, together with remains of Elephas primigenius and Rhinoceros tichorhinus.
Pleistocene fauna, including Rhinoceros hemitœchus, a number of implements of distinctly palæolithic forms made of felstone and chert, as well as one of flint.
With it was found a molar tooth ofRhinoceros tichorhinus.
It lay with an unworn molar of Rhinoceros tichorhinus.
On seeing Rustem the rhinoceros retreated, and the elephant was led back.
The traditional antipathy of the rhinoceros to the elephant seems to be mythical.
The most familiar is the Rhinoceros unicornis, commonly found in the Brahmaputra valley.
A rhinoceros charging a ball of thistledown or a soap-bubble, and causing it to float away with the wind it created, would not have been a more Iudicrous spectacle.
A strange quarry for men whose paeliolithic progenitors hunted the woolly mastodon and many-horned rhinoceros and sabre-toothed tiger!
He didn’t mind if there were a rhinoceroson the doorstep.
We found that he was very severely hit, and having followed the spoor for about a mile through very dense thorn cover, he suddenly rustled out of the bushes close ahead of us, accompanied by a whole host of rhinoceros birds.
At this moment a cow rhinocerosof the same species, with her calf, charged out of some wait-a-bit thorn cover, and stood right in my path.
Next day, at an early hour, I rode out with Ruyter to hunt, my camp being entirely without flesh, and we having been rationed upon very tough old rhinoceros for several days past.
Rhinoceros Daun did play his Leo a bad prank more than once; and this of barring him out from Olmutz was one of them, perhaps the worst after Kolin.
A rhinoceros when once started is a difficult beast to stop, though a shot from a heavy rifle will generally turn it.
I flattered myself, as if the shooting a rhinoceros was a matter of supreme indifference to me in those days, and walked to my own waggon.
Selous has proved beyond a doubt that there is only one species of the so-called black rhinoceros (R.
There can be no doubt that the range of this beast extends from the Soudan to South Africa, and that there is only one distinct species of prehensile-lipped rhinoceros known throughout Africa.
All these add very considerably to the charm of a shooting trip, and afford a pleasant change from the rifle to the shot-gun, besides agreeably altering the monotonous menu of antelope venison or tough rhinoceros or buffalo steak.
The only instance I have ever heard of in which a rhinoceros renewed the attack under any circumstances (i.
As he turns the curve in the winding path he sees that a rhinoceros or buffalo is coming down to drink.
In some points their squeamishness resembles that of the Somal: he, for instance, who tastes the Rhinoceros Simus is at once dubbed "Om Fogazan" or outcast.
The herds were attended by an immense number of the invariable rhinoceros birds, which on observing me did their best to spread alarm throughout the hippopotami.
It attains to ten or eleven feet in length, and to five feet, or more, in height, being the next largest animal to the rhinoceros and the elephant.
The Rhinoceros is found in both Asia and Africa, and is classified by Dr.
Of these the Indian Rhinoceros, the Rhinoceros of Sumatra, and the Mahoohoo of South and Central Africa are representatives.
During the day the rhinoceros will be found lying asleep or standing indolently in some retired part of the forest, or under the base of the mountains, sheltered from the power of the sun by some friendly grove of umbrella-topped mimosas.
The eyes of the rhinocerosare small and sparkling and do not readily observe the hunter, provided he keep to leeward of them.
The rhinoceros is supposed by many, and by myself among the rest, to be the animal alluded to by Job, Chap.
The rhinoceros is said to live for a hundred years.
Both varieties of the black rhinoceros are extremely fierce and dangerous, and rush headlong and unprovoked upon any object which attracts their attention.
Presently a rhinoceros came that way, and the monkey begged him to extricate him.
But the rhinocerosremarked that he was hungry and thirsty and on his way home to dinner, and went his way.
Yet a rhinoceros is a simpler creature than a German, and does not trouble our thought by conforming, on occasion, to civilized standards and humane conditions.
Who has ever fathomed the mind of a rhinoceros; or has remembered, while he faces the beast, that a good rhinoceros is a pleasant member of the community in which his life is passed?
So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside.
Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on.
It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin.
Illustration: THIS is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his palm-tree and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach of the Altogether Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his skin.
The Parsee's name was Pestonjee Bomonjee, and the Rhinoceros was called Strorks, because he breathed through his mouth instead of his nose.
But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners.
The Parsee took off his hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe.
Rhinoceros Zisca was on the Weissenberg, or a still nearer Hill of Prag since called ZISCA-BERG (Zisca Hill): and none durst whisper of it to the King.
Poor soul, he came to the Kaisership too early; was a thin violent creature, sensible to the charms and horrors of created objects; and had terrible rhinoceros Ziscas and unruly horned-cattle to drive.
Bremen now came up to say that they had discovered a rhinoceros close to the river-side, concealed in the bushes underneath a clump of acacia.
They then made hiding-places of thick bushes by a pool, where they knew the elephant and rhinoceros would come to drink.
By the track which was marked by the blood of the rhinoceros, the hyena must have followed the animal for many miles, until the rhinoceros was in such pain that it could proceed no further.
A rhinoceros will destroy the elephant; the lion can make no impression on him, and flies before him like a cat.
I have killed the rhinoceros and elephant, and now I must have the giraffe; they can kill the two first animals in India, but the other is only to be had in this country.
The vision of the rhinoceros is so limited," observed Swinton, "that it is not difficult to get out of his way on his first charge; but at his second he is generally prepared for your maneuver.
The rhinoceros watched his fall, and running up to him trod upon him and pounded him to a mummy.
The rhinoceros started up again, and singling out the unfortunate man who had got down and fired at it, roaring and snorting with rage, thundered after him.
The Major and Alexander having declared their intention of immediately going in pursuit, Swinton advised them to be cautious, as the charge of a rhinoceros was a very awkward affair, if they did not get out of the way.
The rhinoceros missed him and passed on in full speed, and before the brute could recover himself and change his course, the whole of us had climbed up into trees.
The barking of the dogs, which commenced as soon as they entered the bushes, did not continue more than a minute, when a female rhinoceros of the black variety burst out of the thicket in pursuit of the retreating dogs.
Great length of life has been assigned to the rhinoceros, but the longest actual record is that of an Indian rhinoceros which lived for thirty-seven years in the London Zoological Gardens.
Just imagine the great rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens taking it into its head, with that little eye, target hide, and bulky bones, and other items about it, to fondle its keeper!
Thus Oryctes nasicornis, a rhinoceros beetle common on the Continent, is a full month before it reaches the surface of the earth, after quitting its puparium.
In the fermenting bark in which the instinct of the rhinoceros beetles (Oryctes nasicornis &c.
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