Some mammals of Africa, briefly

Usage examples of rhinos.

When other rhinos come this way, they will be able to tell that the cow over there is in oestrus, ready to mate.

Shorn rhinos strained against leather traces, pulling massive blocks across rolling logs.

Behind the demon came a horde of beasts--huge serpents, enormous crabs, scaled wurms, rhinos with metal horns, giant ground sloths fitted with claws and spikes, and a host of gibbering dementia creatures only dreamed in ruined minds.

Behind them came gigantipithicus apes and shorn rhinos, goblins and mule men.

Gigantipithicus apes and shorn rhinos, dwarves and goblins, slaves and undead things of every description gathered beneath the banner of their mistress.

Shorn rhinos, giant squirrels, dementia horrors, great cats, doughty dwarfs, and enormous serpents all made their way toward a distant foe.

Dwarves, goblins, dryads, centaurs, rhinos, and spinefolk all spread out in a wide line of advance that reached from the caravan on one side to the horizon on the other.

The small birds which had been working on the backs of the rhinos flew off in a brief burst of startled motion.

Bulls in half-playful dominance contests, but animals as savage as charging rhinos, even hordes of scheming, clever Fireheads.

The geneticists had been trying to get hold of the rhinos to store genetic material, maybe eggs and sperm and even zygotes, in the hope of restoring the species in the future.

And so have the modern fauna: there are no fully-evolved horses, rhinos, pigs, cattle, cats, dogs.

As I write this, I have beside me your letter of the 26th, where you state that the fight against the poachers is being lost and that even the programme to dart the black rhinos and then de-horn them is proving futile, since poachers still kill them because it saves tracking a useless animal.

Just five years ago, there were more than two thousand black rhinos in Zimbabwe.

He knew that there were less than four hundred black rhinos still alive in the wild, and once they were eliminated the value of his stock would multiply at least tenfold, if not more.

The Rhinos, which were the exact same model used by Population Management, had the hobos thoroughly intimidated.