Some of the unique animals found there are gerenuk, warthog, impala, bush buck and black rhino. |
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The African rhino species have two horns, one behind the other, and have smooth, gray skin. |
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We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep. |
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He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him. |
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Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part. |
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It must be dissolved slowly in water, over several days and then filtered to remove traces of Acacia tree bark, elephant hide and rhino horn. |
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In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas. |
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The same is true for the cost of rhino horn, but the whole story is even a bit more complicated. |
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One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn. |
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We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens. |
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Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium. |
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It is home to some of the last wild black rhino and the biggest packs of wild dog. |
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Some other interesting wildlife here includes giraffe, leopard, cheetah, jackal, blue wildebeest, gemsbok and black rhino. |
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One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans. |
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Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena. |
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Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. |
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While some of the animals are kept in zoos, the Sumatran rhino is difficult to breed in captivity. |
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The list of the critically endangered include the black rhino and Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard of Asia. |
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That's because, left unchecked, black rhino populations can grow to the point where females are competing with other rhinos for food. |
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Mopeds carrying live ducks, roadsides littered with dead snakes, a leopard, an elephant and a rhino were just some of the more unusual sights. |
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The Indian rhino has well-developed incisor teeth and two long canine teeth in its lower jaw. |
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When was the last time you saw a giraffe or a rhino proudly prodding a charred chunk of wildebeest round a barbeque? |
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We forbid the sale of goods made from endangered species such as elephants and rhino. |
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Teeth from a woolly rhino were also found, with a reindeer antler and a deer bone that had been split to extract the marrow. |
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Anyway, at the safari park in Dallas I got to scrape some rhino tusk and feed a giraffe. |
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The 2000 birth of a healthy calf to a rhino called Emi at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio was the first successful captive delivery in 112 years. |
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There have been cases of young translocated elephants goring rhino and attacking cars. |
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You are guaranteed to tick off the full roster of the big five lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino and elephant. |
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One species that has fared particularly poorly is the black rhinoceros, the browsing species of rhino that is listed as critically endangered. |
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The first rhino, a vociferous young female named Thandukhala, was to be the first to experience the world outside the boma last night. |
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Kampala was born prematurely in the rhino bomas at the Kruger National Park, while Thandi was born at Addo. |
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The black rhino is known for its aggressiveness and its nimble upper lip, which it uses to grasp and browse on shrubs. |
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The guy had a hide as thick as a rhino, loved his politics and he didn't have a mean bone in his body. |
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All carnivores would be in one zone, and a miniature savannah with deer, rhino, elephant, giraffe and hippo forming another. |
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The wildlife to see here includes buffalo, hippo, black rhino, lion and wild dog. |
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Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus! |
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To give it character, the cheekpiece features a carved rhino with silver inlaid horns. |
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The Sumatran rhinoceros is a member of the rhino family, Rhinoceridae in the Mammalian Order of Perissodactyla. |
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There is one species of rhino in Borneo, commonly called the Sumatran rhinoceros, with the scientific name Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. |
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Then of course there were redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino and de-ticking as only oxpeckers know how. |
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In fact you could make paper from all kinds of fibrous material, including elephant and rhino dung. |
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With the push of the northeast monsoon, their dhows brought ironware, glassware, textiles, and took home rhino horn, ivory and slaves. |
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Therefore, the wear rate of rhino teeth, in terms of crown height, may decrease exponentially with age. |
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Two horses were euthanized at Bay Meadows earlier this week apparently after contracting equine rhino tracheitis virus. |
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She talked about her work on rhino and elephant conservation in East Africa and the development of conservancies and anti-poaching initiatives there. |
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From ceviche marinade to pickled sheep eyeballs to ground rhino horns, here are the craziest hangover cures from around the globe. |
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Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw. |
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All of the common herbivores and their main predators are found here along with black faced impala, Damara dik-dik, roan antelope, red hartebeest and black rhino. |
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During a canned rhino hunt, the animal is kept in a small enclosure, preventing it from running off and, in most cases, it is so tame that it makes an easy prey in any case. |
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No meat had been taken, only the rhino horns and elephant tusks. |
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Throw a tax cut their way, the argument goes, and like lovers haplessly lost to the aphrodisiacal effects of ground rhino horn, they'll be putty in your hands. |
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They have already introduced thousands of head of game including black rhino, elephant, disease-free buffalo, zebra, giraffe, springbok, blesbok and antelope. |
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Chrysler's pickup trucks, for example, should look like the old Powerwagons, with big wheel wells, oversized tires and a grill that would stop a rhino. |
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So even if it means a person actually targeted a wildebeest or impala, it's definitely going to end up catching a rhino in a way they set up the snares. |
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There are only 5,000 black rhino and 20,000 white rhino left, the vast majority of which are in South Africa and Namibia. |
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Imagine a landscape inhabited by several kinds of elephantoids, deinotheres, three species of rhino, two species of hippo, and two species of giraffe. |
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Leopard, elephant, rhino and the rare bongo can all be found here. |
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Dyer is unequivocal about the moral imperative of protecting rhino, even though the costs and challenges are huge. |
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If elephant, rhino, and other African wildlife are poached to extinction, tourism will dry up. |
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Bradford archaeologists are also studying other remains from the site at Lynford, including bones from woolly rhino, brown bears, horses, foxes and hyenas. |
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If Black rhino were to become another creature on the growing list of extinct species, it would be a loss for us all. |
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I wondered, as I body-popped beside him, what the DJ thought of this middle-aged bloke in a sensible woolly jumper and pressed trousers, pogoing like a demented rhino. |
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But arrests of rhino poachers have also followed an upward curve. |
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Enter Pembient, a biotech startup developing products that are genetically and spectrographically similar to rhino horn. |
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There are few animal models for acne, the main ones being hamster auricles and the utricles of the rhino mouse. |
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In an effort to show the world the very real effects of the rhino poaching crisis, HESC has partnered with Africam. |
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For sensitive sightseers, Virginia recommends the ant lion, the elephant shrew, the leopard tortoise, the rhino beetle and the buffalo weaver. |
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The biggest is a three-tonne Indian rhino, whose menu includes14 large cabbages a week. |
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The Indian rhino is not the only species threatened today, his African and Sumatran cousins are also no less vulnerable. |
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In addition to the puff adders, the investigators found a snouted cobra, a rhino viper, a British adder and four Dinokistrodons. |
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The new badge is mainly blue and has a rhino with the word rhino above it in a semi circle and Leeds at the top of the badge. |
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The rhino was painted with a black moustache and wearing a Chester City football kit and boots. |
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But the Northern white rhino is believed to be extinct in the wild and only a few remain in a sanctuary in Kenya. |
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The northern white rhino has been on the brink of extinction for years due to hunting and habitat loss. |
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Italian D'Acampo had to eat the foul fare, plus rhino beetles, a witchety grub and meal worms to win a slap-up dinner for his fellow campers. |
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Emelia and her father James, 33, from Bussage, near Stroud, dug up the vertebra of the woolly rhino which roamed the area about 50,000 years ago. |
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Another crucial long-term plan is to get the rhino breeding again. |
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But judging by the UV rays he's faced under a sunlamp, that boy's got the skin of a rhino. |
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Watch lions crouch low in the kikuyu grass, while elephants and rhino lumber down to the waterhole. |
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Phil Tufnell travels to the Indian province of Assam to find the few remaining Indian rhino, killed for their horn which is more valuable than gold. |
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In December, Angalifu, a 44-year-old northern white rhino, died at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, leaving only five of his kind on the planet. |
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In fact, the white rhino species is known to be a target for poaching. |
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In summer 2010, as part of an outdoor installation in Chester that featured seventy life sized fibreglass rhinos each with unique artwork, one rhino was in honour of Ian Rush. |
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Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised. |
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There are 13 black rhino living among the silver-edged mopane trees. |
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The rare Indian rhino and breeding Amur tigers are on show too. |
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When the local council sold off the rhinos for charity, the Rush rhino was bought by phoenix club Chester which was formed after Chester City was wound up. |
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There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted. |
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And the grounds boast a cave in which,in 1897, were found the remains of flint tools and the bones of various animals such as mammoth and woolly rhino. |
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The extinction of the mammoth and other megafauna such as the woolly rhino, giant deer and cave bear is blamed on the loss of grassland across the northern hemisphere. |
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The Sumatran rhino, the most threatened species of rhino, is another favourite, and in Jersey lives David's favourite monkey, the black lion tamarin. |
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