rhinoceros
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Visitors can take photos of rhinoceros with the office towers and apartment buildings of downtown Nairobi visible in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
Shelly had said that most of the regular customers were so heavy into the gambling that a rhinoceros could get loose on board and they wouldn’t care.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
Elephants and rhinoceroses lived alongside bison, aurochs, horses, and deer.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026
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
Indeed, not only is there enough diversity to allow rhinoceroses to be reproduced through cloning, but the samples from northern white rhinoceroses are actually more diverse than those of the southern white rhinoceroses.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas to cooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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