The white rhinoceros is the biggest galloping mammal alive today, typically weighing in at around three tons. Ī three-week-old Sumatran rhinoceros at Cincinnati Zoo in 2004. The Pope's Rhinoceros By Lawrence Norfolk. Last year, Rhinoceros Post provided data transfer and color correction for a number of scenes in the Academy Award-nominated Michael Moore documentary 'Bowling for Columbine'. Rhinoceros was a well-planned but poorly executed supergroup whose roots were based in a set of musicians collected by Elektra Records and called Project Supergroup.

On World Rhino Day, people across the globe celebrate the rhinoceros and raise awareness to save all five species. The typical genus of Rhinocerotidæ, containing all the living and some of the extinct forms. The two-horned species include the Sumatran or Malaccan rhinoceros, R. javanus, distinct from the Indian species, inhabiting Java, the Malay peninsula, etc. unicornis, which inhabits the warmer parts of Asia, attains a height of 5 feet, and has the horn short and stout the Javan rhinoceros, R. Of the existing one-horned species are the Indian rhinoceros, R. tichorhinus, the woolly rhinoceros, which formerly ranged over Europe, including the British Isles. The best-known of the extinct species is R.

The living species are now confined to the warmer parts of Africa and Asia, and are hairless or nearly so but these animals formerly had a much more extensive range, not only in the Old World, but also in America. Rhinoceroses live mainly in marshy places, in thick or rank vegetation, and subsist entirely upon vegetable food. When two horns are present they are one behind the other in the median line, and the hinder one rests over the frontal bone, the front one being in any case borne upon the nasal bones. The head is especially long in the nasal region, and there are usually one or two massive upright horns, without any bony core, the substance of the horn being epidermal only. The tail is short the ears are high and rather large the head is very large and unshapely, supported upon a thick stocky neck the muzzle is blunt, and the upper lip freely movable. The legs are short, stout, and clumsy, with odd-toed feet, whose three digits are incased in separate hoofs. They are huge ungainly quadrupeds, having an extremely thick and tough or hard skin, thrown into various buckler-like plates and folds. There are several living as well as many fossil species. A large pachydermatous perissodactyl mammal with a horn on the nose any member of the genus Rhinoceros or family Rhinocerotidæ.

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