Dashing all the way…

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!

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.

Out on a Limb

Here is a representation of our Family, all 55 Million Years of it. It cannot begin to cover the range of sizes, styles, and looks which We have had during that period. As you blog along, We will occasionally point out Historical Member groups for one feature or another, like a bus tour through Hollywood.

You can already see where the problem will lie. Many Family Gangs and Clans have been successful for 10 million years and more. During those stretches, We have had multiple internal shifts, looked different ways, lived different places, pursued varied interests. We constantly confront the fact: We are Too Stupendous! So We marvel along with you; We are Some Bunch! RFamTree 10-22You will notice at a glance that not all our Family Members have horns. They don’t and didn’t. Horns are an exotic feature which We happily display, but it is not the prime factor. That essential pulse of Us is RhinoHeart. With RhinoHeart, one is Rhino. Without it, one is… well, something else.