Their senses of smell and hearing were sharp, but their eyesight was limited, though some possessed low-light vision. Some species were less aggressive and more likely to flee. These creatures were known to be bad tempered and to attack anything they perceived as a threat, intruder, or annoyance. Their upper lips were almost prehensile, an ability they used for feeding. Depending on species, they could have one or two horns on their snouts. They could weigh as much as 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms). ‘The night safari represents a coup for the Thai government, which has managed to secure over 300 animals from Kenya, including lions, rhinoceroses, and elephants to populate the project.Rhinoceroses ranged in size, from 6 to 14 feet (1.8 to 4.3 meters) in length and 3 to 6 feet (0.91 to 1.8 meters) in height at the shoulder.‘You've got to have a hide as thick as a rhinoceros to carry on and pretend nothing has happened.’.‘Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image.’.‘A large light-blue horn stood out of the middle of his forehead, and it was shaped like a rhinoceros' horn.’.‘The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said.’.
‘The skin of a rhinoceros, the composure of a Hindu sacred cow and the patience of a saint - just three qualities you'd need to do Robert Ogier's job.’.‘He asked for a ‘highly intelligent workaholic with skin like a rhinoceros and the ability to work 24 hours a day while juggling 20 balls in the air.’’.‘Dartford Museum in Market Street, houses some remains of animals found in the area including woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses.’.‘Elephants, tigers and rhinoceroses are successfully bred at the Way Kambas National Park, which is also famous for its elephant training school.’.‘At one point Bill suggested that the reason rhinoceroses' horns have been ground up for years and used as an ancient form of Viagra was, well, the shape of the rhino's horn.’.‘During the Pleistocene, herds of giant wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed the plains of southern Australia.’.‘The alteration and fragmentation of existing habitats ensures that any future radiation of mammals, for instance, will not include large forms such as rhinoceroses, apes and big cats.’.‘Once upon a time, ground sloths or camels or even ancestral rhinoceroses may have inhabited your part of the country.’.‘When Japheth Boyce was a tyke in South Dakota, he liked to scrabble around in the barren, rocky ground of the Badlands, hunting for fossils of saber-toothed tigers, rhinoceroses and three-toed horses the size of golden retrievers.’.‘But I remember she said there was a hippopotamus and a rhinoceros.’.‘The Ceratopsian dinosaurs (Triceratops, etc) were the rhinoceroses of the dinosaur world, their formidable horns at least appear to be ample protection against even the largest and fiercest carnivores.’.‘Another unusual mammal found at Chilga is the arsinoithere, which looks like a larger version of a modern rhinoceros, but actually evolved independently of rhinos, said Rasmussen.’.‘O'Connell-Rodwell and her colleagues have also begun to study the nuances of elephant signals to distinguish them from the footsteps of rhinoceroses or lions.’.