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Black rhinoceros, Forest, enjoyed some pumpkins for Halloween

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Busch Gardens® Tampa’s black rhinoceros, Forest, enjoyed some pumpkins in preparation for Halloween. The post Black rhinoceros, Forest, enjoyed some pumpkins for Halloween appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. As part of his daily enrichment, the animal care team provided several pumpkins for Forest! wildlife'

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The tremendous Rhinoceros Hornbill

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And the biggest one occuring on Borneo – the Rhinoceros Hornbill – is actually not a hornbill at all in flight, it is a flying barn door. But most of all: Asian hornbills aren’t all like African hornbills – aren’t like them at all. You know, they just aren’t crow-sized. They are somewhat bigger.

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Grey Rhinoceros

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Where’s BBOTY?

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They were chasing flies around a rhinoceros midden. Thus my BBOTY for 2019 was; White-fronted Bee-eater. A small flock of Merops bullockoides were feeding in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Large clumps of droppings, yet to be broken down by bugs, bacteria, or a returning rhino, were used as slightly raised perches.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. The adorable baby, a female, will join other rhinos in the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain. The baby is the second calf born to mother Kisiri and the seventh calf born to father Tambo.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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