Tomorrow is your ‘Sleep Festival 2016’. YIR addresses the function today as We will be away tomorrow. Physically. Tiny vacation.

Rhinos can sleep anytime and virtually anywhere. We often challenge one another to do it, and We seldom fail to nap, at the very least. On the limb of a tree or on a Himalayan promontory, it makes no nevermind.

What makes it easy is that a doze does not impede our general regimen of activities, day or night. We just go along with ourselves, refocused on the Fragmentarily Perceptible. The inactivity can be very stimulating.

And relaxing. Even therapeutic.

RhinoTots do not toddle. When they are born, they are all ready to walk within a few hours. In the Wild, We cannot endure if We cannot get up and get out. That’s just the way it is. This fact accounts for the long pregnancy RhinoMoms experience; all that prep work takes place inside.

That is not to say that RhinoTots are particularly coordinated or graceful. Just so We’re clear on that. All those presentational skills are the result of time.

And Maternal Attention.

Rhinos are all talented tiptoers. It comes with the package. Each of our feet has three toes, but We mainly use the middle toes, which is slightly larger than the others. The two outside toes are good for balance and standing, but when We go into Action, that middle toe takes Charge.

Thus you see that although We are mighty and largish, when it comes to grace and precision, We Rhinos are on our toes.

Marvelous.

For more Toe Talk, see Oct. 23, 2014.