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Hickory Dickory

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The ticking of a watch may be comforting to you, but its regularity sometimes gets on our nerves. We prefer the natural idea of the sundial. We are not interested in the hour anyway, and the sundial is relating to the sun, so We like that. We are mostly on duty to one degree or another 24/7, even when asleep. No great reason to be particular about one hour or another.

Sundial 11-6

For Us, the issue is simple; is the sun up yet or not? Day or night dictate which playmates will be active in the Wild. Many critters only get going at night or by day. Not We. We are ready to chew and make profound discoveries, around the clock… as it were.

For those of you who are wondering, our model here is a Sumatran Rhino, which explains the hairiness. There is a long tradition of hairiness among Us Rhinos, though only one family is embodying that distinction at present. Who knows what’s on its way? Next year We may all be awash in fuzz, striped or spotted. Nature has a unique sense of humor; why fight it?

Every little breeze…

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Sound in the WildIn the Wild there is a non-stop symphony of sound. The orchestration shifts with the hour, the season, the weather, plus the resident population. There are infinite sources for sound, noise, music, etc., all of them engaging our attention.

We mention this because We Rhinos have extraordinary hearing, as nifty as our sense of scent. Amazing.

Here sits the happy Rhino, chewing and listening (and sniffing). What grabs her attention?, you ask. Answer: Silence. Silence is Nature’s five-star Alarm.

What will she do? She will figure out what caused the Silence. One thing to recall is that she is probably upwind of the problem, or she would have smelled the problem longsince.

Will she run away, as most sensible creatures would, or does she investigate to reestablish local serenity? Who can tell? The girl has options…

Dashing all the way…

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R Racer 10-27-14
We just mentioned that We are pretty quick. We were not fooling. We can run at 35 mph, which is about the same as the standard horse. (We are cousins, after all.) Pretty good, considering our bulk. Quick-ity Quick.

Also, We can turn on a dime, though there is little spare change in the Wild for Us to practice with.

Generally, We do not run around much. Takes too much energy, and energy means more chewing and chewing and chewing.

Eye spy!

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Eyeball apparatus

It is true that our eyes are not as sensorially swell as our noses or ears. Way Back When they say it was better, but that may have been before We started growing horns. We are unclear on that topic; it was millions of years ago, like lots of millions. However, what is for sure is that it is hard to see around a horn or two in the middle of the face. Even today.

SO in the Wild our noses and ears are the First-Alert System. (Or sometimes crazed birds flapping around.) Then We look for any unusual activity. Then mostly We trot away. But sometimes We go Quickly to check it out. We are pretty Quick, whatever you might have thought. Often the disturbance runs away pretty Quick on its own.

This lens-mirror doofangle in the picture is nonsense, since there are no Optometrists in the Wild.  Might be fun to try out a doofangle, but probably We’d flip out from what We saw all of a sudden. We need to edit stimuli, to avoid overheating.

Big, Bigger, Biggest

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Weighing In

We are Big Animals. Not as big as elephants, but Big. Also, there are hippos, which are also Big. You probably knew that already.

Today elephants would be biggest, but even so, among all the elephants on Earth, only one can be the biggest one. Everybody else comes in somewhere down the line. And by tomorrow, some other elephant may have gained 2 pounds, and take over the crown. As a group, they are Big.

Bigness has some issues as a topic. Which Rhino is bigger than which hippo? Which Rhino is bigger than another, and how would We tell? We are not into scales and weighing ourselves or one another. We own no tape measures. Still, We are Big Animals. We Rhinos mostly evaluate these Bigness matters by bumping into one another and seeing who falls over. In the Wild, where We live, much is revealed through rough-housing, however noisy.

The key topic associated with Bigness is Food. We each have a lot of body to maintain and sustain. A Big Body is a Big Responsibility.

Supper’s On!

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Grass-ias

We eat vegetables, grasses, green stuff- nothing else. A lot of plants. We cannot do without them, and what is truly astounding is that Nature provides enough for all of Us. A few bad years, occasionally, but…

The Five Families live in five different locales, so We eat what is available where We are. We are nothing, if not versatile. Run short of one thing, move on to another, wherever it may grow.

We are diligent chewers. We work a big bunch of hours a day, locating and munching vegetables and grass and fruit and leaves. We are built to thrive on it, and We have- for 55 million years. Some track record, right? For both Us and the vegetables.