Sometimes hunters shoot rhinoceroses and kill them, and then eat part of them, which they say is very good, just like beef.
Some rhinoceroses have two horns on their nose and some only one.
Individual Elephants vary in temperament far more than do rhinoceroses or hippopotami, and the variations are wide.
Roosevelt became convinced, that most of the alleged "charging" of rhinoceroses was due to curiosity and poor vision, and the desire of rhinos to investigate at close range.
For half a century African hunters wrote of the assaults of African rhinoceroses on caravans and hunting parties; and those accounts actually established for that animal a reputation for pugnacity.
The Iguanodon, however, and some others lived on vegetable food, and probably played a part in the forests of the chalk period similar to that of the unwieldy but smaller elephants, hippopotami, and rhinoceroses of the present day.
There were a few rhinoceroses too, a great rarity at Rome; and some enormous crocodiles, which excited the astonishment and curiosity of the maritime populace.
In the modern seas many forms of life thrive best and grow to the greatest size in the colder seas; and in the later tertiary period there were elephants and rhinoceroses sufficiently hardy to endure the rigours of an Arctic climate.
If elephants and rhinoceroses perished from the land, countless herds of walruses and seals took their places.
Suddenly tworhinoceroses came to their feet some fifty yards to our left out in the high grass, and stood looking uncertainly in our direction.
Note that this was downwind for him, and that rhinoceroses usually escape upwind.
Rhinoceroses conceal themselves most cannily, and have a deceitful habit of leaping from a nap into their swiftest stride.
A herd or so of eland also liked this covered country; and there were always a few waterbuck and rhinoceroses about.
Those rhinoceroses looked to me like two Dreadnaughts.
And there were also the rhinoceroses to be carefully espied and avoided.
Thus we never had our safari scattered by rhinoceroses in the former district, while in the latter the boys were up trees six times in the course of one morning!
Menagerie rhinoceroses had been of the smaller Indian variety; and in any case most menagerie beasts are more or less stunted.
Therefore it had been agreed that the advance of the battle line was to cease only when those rhinoceroses loomed up reasonably large in the finder.
They were not natural gorges, but had evidently been made by heavy animals, such as rhinoceroses and others, that were in the habit of coming either to drink or ford the river at this point.
On the contrary, it was just as either of the black rhinoceroses would have acted.
In other words, the white rhinoceroses of South Africa are in point of magnitude, after the elephant, the largest quadrupeds in the world.
All eyes were instantly turned in the direction whence came the "skreek" of the bird, and there, sure enough, were a brace of rhinoceroses of the biggest kind.
Rhinoceroses disappeared comparatively early from the New World, and never reached South America.
But wolves and rhinoceroses are not to be driven off with cocoa-nuts, and again the foe pressed forward.
In the form and length of their neck, the set of their ears, and other respects, the black rhinocerosesdiffer materially from the white ones.
The black rhinoceroses are much smaller--scarce half the size of the others, and they differ from them in the length and set of their horns, as well as in other particulars.
Right in my path stood two rhinoceroses of the white variety, and to these the dogs instantly gave chase.
We had not gone far when two wild boars, with enormous tusks, stood within thirty yards of me: but this was no time to fire: and a little after a pair of whiterhinoceroses stood directly in our path.
I think there can be little doubt that when rhinoceroses do fight, it is in a most determined and dogged manner, though it is highly improbable that they ever kill each other.
It is occasionally used in the most determined way by rhinoceroses who have mutual differences to adjust.
Adult rhinoceroses are to be found in East Africa (and perhaps there is no place where they exist in greater numbers at the present day), varying in size, temperament, and in the length and shape of their horns.
Two or three times I have shot rhinoceroses with only one ear, the other one most probably having been bitten off in a fight.
Next morning at breakfast my friend offered to show me where the rhinoceroses lived.
In spite of the fact that buffaloes are generally considered the most dangerous of all big game, rhinoceroses will test the nerve of a beginner more perhaps than any other big beast.
If not accompanied by these birds, there would be no difficulty in approaching sleeping rhinoceroses to within a few yards; in fact, if so inclined, I believe one might kick them up.
These birds follow therhinoceroses for the sake of the ticks which are always plentiful on them.
One great hunter tells us that although many rhinoceroses have advanced toward him to within twenty or thirty yards, they always ran away if he threw stones at them, or even if he waved his arms and shouted.
The African rhinoceroses are without the folds of skin which are found in the Indian species, and have two horns on the head instead of one.
THE HYRAX Oddly enough, one of the animals most closely related to the rhinoceroses is much more like a rabbit, and actually lives in burrows in the ground.
If there were rhinoceroses in Papua, they must have got there by an overland route.
Therefore, being later in point of time than the separation, they could no more get over to Australia than the elephants and tigers and rhinoceroses could.
Parsons has taken the trouble to draw this animal himself in three different views, before, behind, and in profile; and particular parts from other rhinoceroses which are preserved in the cabinets of Natural History.
Allamand we may consider as a confirmation of our former observation, that the rhinoceroses with two horns form a variety in the species, and may be equally found in Asia and Africa.
The rhinoceroses do not herd together, nor march in troops like the elephants; they are more wild and solitary, and perhaps more difficult to hunt and subdue.
It seems that the rhinoceroses with one horn have it bigger and longer than those who have two.
Lions will no more greet elephants, the buffaloes will be shy, the rhinoceroses will live apart, and man when he comes within the shadows will think of nothing else than his terrors, and he will fancy an enemy in every shadow.
When it was ended the lions roared, the rhinoceroses snorted, the buffaloes bellowed, the hyenas laughed, and the shrill trumpetings of the elephants announced that the meeting was over.
Remember this was five-and-thirty years ago, before the settlers had driven the lions and rhinoceroses away.
There are not many lions orrhinoceroses or elephants in those parts, no doubt; you seldom or never meet with them about there in these days.
Tandoi bore down hundreds of carcasses of rhinoceroses and buffaloes, and swept away more than one hundred men and women from a multitude assembled on its banks to celebrate a festival.
Thus as soon as he got to Africa, he witnessed a vicious encounter between black rhinoceroses and elephants, which would have done credit to Mayne Reid; exactly as Colonel X.
In one of these thickets we ran on to three black rhinoceroses (R.
Selous now went to the Se-whoi-whoi river, where two years previously he killed the last two white rhinoceroses he was destined to see.
Two black and two white rhinoceroseshad made their appearance, but, scared by the smell of the blood, they soon made off.
Mr. Cumming thus describes his encounter with some rhinoceroses and an eland, in the country of the Bechuanas.
A little afterwards two black rhinoceroses and two white ones came to the waterside.
Spurring my horse, I followed through some thorny bushes as best I might, and emerging on an open glade, I beheld two huge white rhinoceroses trotting along before me.
Rhinoceroses charged the caravan and both Lucy and Roger had narrow escapes of being tossed on their horns, while Lucy was twice flung from her donkey when it bolted with terror at a tangent from the unexpected rush of the squealing monster.
Lions and rhinoceroses were distinctly a danger to be reckoned with.
Stas did not like this method of hunting; so he began to ask what other game there was in the Wahima country and they conversed further about antelopes, ostriches, giraffes, and rhinoceroses until the roar of a waterfall reached them.
Perhaps a pair of rhinoceroses seeking an exit from the ravine?
The only chance in the race was to hold the pace until the rhinoceroses should begin.
We were close to the dense thorns, and the rhinoceroses broke into a trot; they were done!
As I drew near I discovered two rhinoceroses asleep beneath a thick mass of bushes.
The two rhinoceroses were running neck and neck, like a pair of horses in harness, but bounding along at tremendous speed within ten yards of the leading Hamran.
At the foot of this incline was thick thorny nabbuk jungle, for which impenetrable covert the rhinoceroses pressed at their utmost speed.
We neared the jungle, and the rhinocerosesbegan to show signs of flagging, as the dust puffed up before their nostrils, and, with noses close to the ground, they snorted as they still galloped on.
Senhor Silva said he had heard of rhinoceroses with three horns, but he had never seen them, and rather doubted their existence.
I saw at once that it would be impossible to catch up the horsemen; besides which, I should have run a great chance of being gored to death by the rhinoceroses or buffaloes.
As the sun rose higher and grew hotter, the buffaloes and rhinocerosesretired to their coverts, as did many of the other animals, the zebras and giraffes alone defying the sun's rays.
It was like the former one, formed, I concluded, by elephants orrhinoceroses to reach their evening drinking-place.
I have run a narrow chance of being killed a score of times by lions and elephants, not to speak of rhinoceroses and buffaloes, hyenas and snakes, and I do not know what other creatures.
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