If you HAD to eat a rhinoceros.....

[papercorn2000]

That last guy has his work cut out - rolling an elephant back onto its feet!

 

[Globalti]

Bluddy 'ell! Have you seen the length of the horn on that beast?

 

[Fnaar]

My friend does a lot of zoo work treating these animals for various musculo-skeletal problems, and he said to me that they don't have the tough hide of an elephant even if it looks like that (apparently) - pics of some of his animal work below...

Where's his hand, in the chimp pic?

 

[LLB]

That last guy has his work cut out - rolling an elephant back onto its feet!

It is all the same person in the pics. They use the animals own body weight and inertia/momentum to effect treatment.

He gave a talk on his work with animals the other week and said, when you work with them, always have at least two escape routes mapped before you go in with them, and if a rhinos tail lifts (or is it drops), peg it FAST

 

[LLB]

Where's his hand, in the chimp pic?

Lower back I expect. He is an Osteopath by trade. These animals get similar problems to humans as they age. The Rhinos were suffering from Osteo arthritis cause by being kept in a cold climate on an unheated concrete floor.

The Many Zoos and wildlife parks have now realised that these animals need a bit of TLC to keep the vet bills down as they get older.

 

[Globalti]

How do I apply to live in a zoo?

 

[LLB]

How do I apply to live in a zoo?

Register on here and subscribe to P&L

 

[rikki]

I refer you to my previous argument. Rhinos don't jump 'cos they don't need to!

One of our local rhinos went for a wander earlier this week. Seems that he didn't need to jump.

Story here http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24767900-5006301,00.html

 

[rikki]

I hope this image of carnivorous rhinos roaming the home counties isn't going to give anyone nightmares...

A group of cub scouts once told me that rhinos ate meat, so I asked how they thought it caught whatever the animals they ate.

That was the exercise - pick an animal, and find out what environment it lives in, what it eats, and how it gets its food.

The answer was blindingly obvious [to an 8 year old] - "it kills things with the horn on its nose!!"

 

[rikki]

But seriously.

What wines go with rhino meat?

And is there a special name for rhino meat? Like bambi = venison; babe = pork; cows = beef; old sheep = mutton; lamb = lamb.

 

[asterix]

..probably in Africa.

 

[TVC]

I bet its hide makes really crunchy crackling

 

[longers]

I'll have some knee and elbow pads if there's any spare. And a little bit to make a nice keyring perhaps.