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
The research also introduces a revised rhinoceros family tree and suggests that this Arctic species reached North America via a land bridge.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
Once his wife returned home to find a freshly deceased rhinoceros filling the front hallway.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
Salon spoke with Wilder about this uplifting news, as well as the practical steps that need to be taken next to save northern 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
Fully 95% of species, including giraffes, leopards, hyenas, zebras, kudu, warthog, impala, elephants, and rhinoceroses, ran more often or abandoned waterholes faster in response to humans than in response to lions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
I’m going to be a veterinarian and operate on the biggest animals on the planet—elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, hippopotamuses.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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