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rhinoceros - Word of the Day - Fri May 24, 2024


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rhinoceros - (noun) - a large, thick-skinned, plant-eating mammal of Africa and Asia, with one or two upright horns on the snout

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In The Gods Must Be Crazy movie from the 1980's, any time they had a fire, a rhinoceros would come out of nowhere to put it out.

 

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Bill W

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There are also rhinoceros beetles, a rhinoceros hornbill (bird), and a rhinoceros iguana.  

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Bill W

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The plural of rhinoceros is rhinoceroses.  

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There are five species of rhinos in the world and rhinos can weigh over 3 tons (US) or tonnes (UK).  Black and white rhinos are both actually grey in color, and males rhinos are called bulls, and the females cows.  Rhino horns are made of keratin, just like our fingernails, and their horns never stop growing.  Rhinos have poor vison and communicate using growls, trumpet calls (honks), snorts, sneezes, and screams, as well as through the smell of their urine and feces.  Rhinos also love mud.  

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