rhinoceros
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In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“It’s also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you’re the CEO of Apple,” he wrote in the essay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
"I've got three favourites, the rhinoceros, tigers and red pandas," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Now though I had great admiration for Peak, I had never thought of a rhinoceros as a light bulb.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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The animals said to have been featured in various Roman spectacles include hippopotamuses, elephants, rhinoceroses, bears, ostriches and big cats like lions and tigers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
The southern white rhinoceroses, which is currently the most abundant rhinoceros species in the world, had been culled down to a population of merely 50 to 200 individuals in the early 20th century.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
For the larger Southeast Asian region, the focus expands to include species such as tigers, orangutans, elephants, rhinoceroses and other endangered large mammals.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
Nhamo had found no evidence of lions or hyenas, buffalo or rhinoceroses.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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