What is "rhinoceroses"

Usage examples of "rhinoceroses".

The imminent prospect of the larger carnivores, to say nothing of rhinoceroses and bull bison, roaming at large and unfed in the heart of London, was not one which permitted of prolonged conferences.

Woolly rhinoceroses, who usually gathered only in family groups, and the larger herds of woolly mammoths ranged farther, but in winter they stayed north.

In the lower latitudes of Asia and Africa the forests are still the abode of numerous families of elephants, rhinoceroses, and numberless societies of monkeys.

Williamson saw their large packs attacking all larger animals save elephants and rhinoceroses, and overpowering bears and tigers.

A family of rhinoceroses had stopped for a drink, too, and not long before.

But rhinoceroses were not herd animals, sociable and easily led or stampeded, depending upon large numbers for safety -- and survival of their kind.

And we stopped killing Irish elk, and the big cats that used to populate North America, and woolly rhinoceroses, and all the others, because there were none left to kill.

Damon was very much alarmed, and there was good occasion for it, as Tom saw a moment later, for two fierce rhinoceroses burst out of the jungle almost on the heels of the fleeing man.

It was on the second day after the killing of the rhinoceroses that, as Tom was tinkering away in the engine-room of the airship, and thinking that perhaps they had better get under way, that a loud shouting was heard among the natives.

Ice Age, with woolly mammoths and shaggy rhinoceroses still wandering around where Paris and London will someday be.