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two tons of armored bad attitude that hasn't updated its body since the Ice Age
means A large, thick-skinned herbivorous mammal of Africa and Asia, distinguished by one or two horns projecting from its snout.
from Straight from the Greek: rhino- (nose) plus keras (horn) — literally a 'nose-horn,' which is about as honest a name as any animal has ever received. That keras is the same root lurking in 'keratin,' the protein that builds the horn itself, and it's a distant cousin of the 'corn' in 'unicorn' and even the English 'horn.' The Greeks called it as they saw it, and the name lumbered through Latin into English essentially unchanged.
- horn material
- keratin, same as your fingernails
- bad eyes
- can't see a person at 30 meters
- oxpecker pals
- birds ride them eating ticks and blood
- top speed
- hits 50 km/h despite its bulk
- closest kin
- horses and tapirs, not other armored beasts
sudan — last male northern white rhino, died 2018 at ol pejeta conservancy, kenya
nola — second-to-last northern white rhino, died 2007 at san diego zoo
kihansi — rescued black rhino, one of five remaining in tanzania in 1993