Nature’s Classroom

In the Wild, where Rhinos mostly live, mirrors are in short supply. So Moms often have to supply information as best they can. For some reason, RhinoTots find mouths endlessly fascinating, so these familial exams are not uncommon.

The casual Reader may better understand the situation if you try to look into your own mouth without mechanical aid. See? Or rather, don’t See, right?

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The Odd Gasp

For Rhinos there are hazards involved in having such delicate and sensitive organs of smell. Not only do We have these sensors in our noses, but also in our mouths. A blessing surely, but a complex blessing.

Rhinos can smell 1) the usual stuff, 2) the unusual stuff, and 3) the Future. Uncanny as this last claim may seem, We are accustomed to know what’s on its way, sometimes bunches of time in advance. We cannot help it.

What We can do about it remains sketchy, millions of years after realizing that few things take Us much by surprise. “Told Me so” gets old, right?

Moving Parts

Rhinos do not have any clear picture of what is going on inside Us. We eat, We gurgle, We poop; that’s the whole shebang.

Still, when we feel queasy, We imagine what’s up. The diagrams We concoct don’t fool anybody, but they can be oddly comforting at the time.

Please bear in mind that each of Us is both Patient and Physician. We just get better, or We don’t, and that is that.