Perissodactyla
gregladen | August 10, 2010In Robert Gardner's documentary film Dead Birds, the men of a highland New Guinea village guard the perimeter of the territory, watchful for men of the neighboring group who may be intent on sneaking into the gardens to capture and kill an unwitting child or woman in order to avenge a prior death. But they don't see the men sneaking through the dense riparian forest. They don't even look for them. Rather, they see the birds fly from their preferred habitat where they are foraging or resting, startled into the open by ... something. The birds belie the predator.
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gregladen | November 27, 2007
Diceros bicornis. Africa has two species of rhinoceros, the "black" and the "white" rhino. Experts disagree on the origin of the two names, and there has been an effort to change these colloquial terms to something else. This is because the "black" rhino is dangerous and shifty, and the "white" rhino is cute and well behaved. Therefore, there are racial undertones, although the origin of the names does not reflect this.
The Black rhino is not black. As with all rhinos, it is mud-colored or dust-colored because it likes to roll around in the mud/dust.
They are ecologically vastly…