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The black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis ) is a large, thick-skinned herbivore having one or two upright horns on the nasal bridge.
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They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting.
The quagga was hunted for its meat, the tarpan was hunted for sport, and a subspecies of black rhinoceros was hunted for its horn ( as with all other African rhinoceros species ).
Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.
The use of parts of endangered species ( such as seahorses, rhinoceros horns, binturong and tiger bones and claws ) has created controversy and resulted in a black market of poachers who hunt restricted animals.
Rhinoceros may refer to either black or white rhinoceros.
The black rhinoceros is classified as critically endangered so cannot be hunted and so is not available at all.
Image: Ostafrikanisches Spitzmaulnashorn. JPG | The critically endangered black rhinoceros, up to long, is threatened by poaching.
It belongs to the same genus as the Indian rhinoceros, and has similar mosaicked skin which resembles armor, but at 3. 1 – 3. 2 m ( 10 – 10. 5 feet ) in length and 1. 4 – 1. 7 m ( 4. 6 – 5. 8 ft ) in height, it is smaller ( in fact, it is closer in size to the black rhinoceros of the genus Diceros ).
The decline of the Javan rhinoceros is attributed to poaching, primarily for their horns, which are highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine, fetching as much as US $ 30, 000 per kilogramme on the black market.
The black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis ), is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and central Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Angola.
The word " white " in the name " white rhinoceros " is a misinterpretation of the Afrikaans word wyd, itself derived from the Dutch word wijd for wide, referring to its square upper lip, as opposed to the pointed or hooked lip of the black rhinoceros.
These species are now sometimes referred to as the square-lipped ( for white ) or hook-lipped ( for black ) rhinoceros.
There are four recognized subspecies of the black rhinoceros:
An adult black rhinoceros stands high at the shoulder and is in length, plus a tail of about in length.
The longest known black rhinoceros horn measured nearly in length.
The black rhinoceros can also be distinguished from the white rhinoceros by its size, smaller skull, and ears ; and by the position of the head, which is held higher than the white rhinoceros, since the black rhinoceros is a browser and not a grazer.
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A review of fossil rhinos in Africa by Denis Geraads has however suggested that the species from Langebaanweg is of the genus Ceratotherium, but not Ceratotherium praecox as the type specimen of Ceratotherium praecox should, in fact, be Diceros praecox, as it shows closer affinities with the black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis.
( as yet unnamed ), with black rhinos being descended from C. neumayri via Diceros praecox.
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But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.
This is a black swamp clay in which about one hundred million years ago cypress-like trees were growing.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity, although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at about 600-degrees.
This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.
The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.
The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.
White pepper is the ground seed of the common black pepper fruit.
( And this is not, perhaps, the place to discuss Harlem's very complex attitude toward black policemen, nor the reasons, according to Harlem, that they are nearly all downtown.
He is not prepared for it -- naturally, nobody is -- and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him.
As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.
Her favorite cocktail dress is a Norell, a black and white organdy and silk jersey.
Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.
Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.
Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
The fire salamander is black and yellow, indicating that it is toxic.
Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.
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First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.
( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.
The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.
National-level statistics are limited and do not capture the large share of black market activity.
The most recent large excavation was undertaken between 1990-95 in a region of " black earth ", believed to be the site of the main settlement.
Due to the relatively large strength of the electromagnetic force, black holes forming from the collapse of stars are expected to retain the nearly neutral charge of the star.
In September 1692, Sibbald found a blue whale that had stranded in the Firth of Forth — a male 78-feet-long — which had " black, horny plates " and " two large apertures approaching a pyramid in shape ".
However, inhalation of coal dust or soot ( carbon black ) in large quantities can be dangerous, irritating lung tissues and causing the congestive lung disease coalworker's pneumoconiosis.
For instance, when reporting data from a large city, it might be appropriate to give the average income for black males aged between 50 and 60.
Her animal alter ego was a monstrous black cat, not a large dog as in Dracula.
Spiral served as a collective of conversation and artistic exploration for a large group of artists who " addressed how black artists should relate to American society in a time of segregation.
In this characterization, he is grotesquely overweight, dressed in filthy garments and covered in large, black pustules which require constant draining and treatment.
alt = In an array of earthen colors, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a large circle of a tightly packed group of wide-eyed intense, scary, elderly and unruly women.
Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.
The egg was yellowish white to light ochre with a varying pattern of black, brown or greyish spots and lines which often congregated on the large end.
It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
By the late 19th century manufacturing focused on standard grades of black powder from Fg used in large bore rifles and shotguns, through FFg ( medium and smallbore arms such as muskets and fusils ), FFFg ( smallbore rifles and pistols ), and FFFFg ( extreme small bore, short pistols and most commonly for priming flintlocks ).
Owing to the large market of antique and replica black powder firearms in the US, modern gunpowder substitutes like Pyrodex, Triple Seven and Black Mag3 pellets have been developed since the 1970s.
Black powder has a low energy density compared to modern " smokeless " powders, and thus to achieve high energy loadings, large amounts of black powder are needed with heavy projectiles.
That meant that people had accumulated large paper assets, and that official prices and wages did not reflect reality, as the black market dominated the economy and more than half of all transactions were taking place unofficially.
A large black hardcover, it was critically well received and attained a degree of commercial success.
He set off for Sijilmasa in September 1353, accompanying a large caravan transporting 600 black female slaves, and arrived back in Morocco early in 1354.
Maroger medium which is not made properly may contain a large amount of dirt and impurities from improperly filtered mastic varnish, or the black oil may be overcooked, both of which would contribute to darkening and weakening of the work.
Jadwiga often prayed before a large black crucifix hanging in the north aisle of Wawel Cathedral.
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