Black Rhinoceros

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Safari and the single girl: Just me and the animals  -  16 Nov 2008
The Province,...laughed as a black rhinoceros wallowed in mud, saw lazy hippos popping up and down in lakes, caught herds of spooked impala springing across fields,

RMSC gets the bugs out  -  16 Nov 2008
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,A heavily armored black rhinoceros beetle — the Darth Vader of the insect world — makes a menacing whoosh as it battles an 11-foot rival for supremacy.

From faltering steps, this young Rhino will help repopulate species  -  Nov 1, 2008
Liverpool Daily Post,AT JUST a day old, this Eastern Black Rhinoceros calf is still trying to find its feet. But despite its first few faltering steps, eventually this little

‘Pumpkin soccer’ and baby rhino wow crowd at Chester Zoo  -  Nov 3, 2008
Liverpool Daily Post,The Eastern Black Rhinoceros calf is still trying to find its feet and following its 10-year-old mum Kitani around, and visitors were urged to keep quiet

Gondwana Game Reserve on track for grand opening  -  Oct 22, 2008
Travel Wires,Recently, two desert black rhinoceros‘ were relocated from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve to Gondwana and are currently in holding bomas.

Gondwana Game Reserve buys two Desert Black Rhinoceros’  -  Sep 11, 2008
Travel Wires,Gondwana is proud to announce the purchase and relocation of two Desert Black Rhinoceros’ (Diceros bicornis) from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve.

LaSalle Resident Shoots the Big Five animals in Kenya  -  Sep 21, 2008
Montréal Express,There are two types of rhinoceros in Africa, the white and the black rhinoceros. The white rhinoceros are classified as a vulnerable species and the black

Ex-U.P. man shoots wildlife with camera, not gun  -  Sep 8, 2008
Chicago Tribune,Animal Planet recently aired documentary footage of an encounter, chase and capture of a black rhinoceros in Zimbabwe. The documentary footage was filmed by

No drugs, just take vitamins: the dangerous advice to cure HIV  -  Sep 14, 2008
guardian.co.uk,It is called uBhejane, Zulu for black rhinoceros, and it is by far the most popular of the alternative Aids treatments in South Africa.

Zimbabwe too lax on rhino poaching: WWF  -  Sep 25, 2008
Canada.com,A black rhinoceros at a nature reserve in Malelane, South Africa. The World Wildlife Fund has criticised the release of four poachers who admitted to

Rhino relocates to Chicago  -  Sep 11, 2008
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,A 600-mile journey began this morning for an eastern black rhinoceros, who is now taking a ride from the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls to the Lincoln Park

Green Conscious Hotels and Destinations Promoted by Travel PR ...  -  Sep 3, 2008
Hospitality NetSpotting endangered species while on safari such as the black rhinoceros or exotic birds is a wonderful way to become educated about the importance of

Mozambique: Administrator of Limpopo Park Dismissed  -  Sep 8, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Once the park can guarantee that they will be safe from poachers, it is also intended to reintroduce white and black rhinoceros.

Namibian Leader Comments on Challenges in Conserving Biodiversity  -  Sep 4, 2008
RedOrbit,Pohamba noted that the country's elephant population has virtually quadrupled over the last 20 years to nearly 20 000, as well as black rhinoceros,

McDonald's launches conservation-themed Happy Meal  -  Aug 13, 2008
Brand Republic,The toys given away with the meals are based on endangered species, including the giant panda, the polar bear and the black rhinoceros.

Odel rewards Wildlife officers for good work  -  Jul 23, 2008
Daily Mirror,The detection in Colombo led to the arrests of two businessmen for possession of four leopard skins and the horn of a black rhinoceros earlier this year.

Zookeeper loses fingertip while feeding new rhino  -  Jul 20, 2008
Arkansas Democrat Gazette,BY JIM BROOKS A keeper at the Little Rock Zoo required surgery Saturday after the zoo’s new black rhinoceros, Naivasha, bit the tip of the keeper’s finger

Poachers terrorise Zimbabwe’s rhinos  -  Jul 19, 2008
Times Online,THE game scouts looking for a black rhinoceros wounded by poachers in Zimbabwe’s Save Valley Conservancy could hear her snoring but could not see her

Kenyan Fence Protects Wildlife and Farmers  -  Jul 29, 2008
Voice of AmericaThe original purpose of the project was to help stop the poaching of the black rhinoceros that live in these mountains. The fence helps keep out people who

‘Hugging’ lion’s ex-owners reflect on his legacy  -  Jul 30, 2008
MSNBCOut of the trust grew the Mkomazi Preserve in Tanzania, which has established the first breeding program for the endangered black rhinoceros.

Go wild at Western Plains  -  Aug 6, 2008
Northern Rivers Echo,...her new home and meeting the white rhino herd, researchers have also recently had a major breakthrough, successfully fertilising a black rhinoceros egg.

Record wildlife auction  -  Jul 28, 2008
iAfrica.com,A Namibian annual wildlife auction sold 175 rare species in an hour on Friday for a record price, among them the black rhinoceros and the African buffalo,

Our website takes sea hero's exploits to the world  -  Jul 18, 2008
Gold Coast News,Some of his favourites stories include removing a 1.2kg tumour from a 3.6kg ringtail lemur, bringing a black rhinoceros through a liver operation and being

IFA Hotels & Resorts achieves record profits of $143 million  -  Aug 12, 2008
Al Watan Daily,The Big Five (lions, elephants, buffalos, leopards and black rhinoceros) roam freely on the 220 million square meter development, which also includes an

Zookeeper, bitten while feeding rhino, loses fingertip  -  Jul 20, 2008
Arkansas Online,By Jim Brooks (Contact) A keeper at the Little Rock Zoo required surgery Saturday after the zoo’s new black rhinoceros, Naivasha, bit the tip of the

Black rhino Ebony dies at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing  -  Apr 9, 2008
MLive.com,It's the second death of a black rhinoceros at the zoo this year. Spike, a 17-year-old, 4000-pound rhino, on loan from the Cincinnati zoo, died in February.

Critics blast SF zoo's use of bond funds  -  Apr 9, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,The lions and black rhinoceros were promised new homes in the African Savannah exhibit. Eleven years later, the orangutans are gone, the chimpanzees are

Geography is brought to life on amazing Africa visit  -  Apr 7, 2008
Portsmouth News,During their visit, the group visited Etosha National Park, home to the Namib Desert and the endangered black rhinoceros. The desert is thought to be the

Big-game legend coming to outdoors show  -  Feb 21, 2008
Mail Tribune,...one of several African lions Serafin has killed, an African leopard, an Asian musk ox, and even a black rhinoceros that would now be illegal to hunt.

Rhino rescuers hope Cupid can pierce one tough hide  -  Feb 14, 2008
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com,Valentine's Day was no hearts-and-flowers holiday for Pete, the Oregon Zoo's lone black rhinoceros. He awoke snorting mad after a 90-minute procedure

Clothes to go wild for: the animal park that launched a fashion line  -  Feb 13, 2008
Independent,The parks boast all of the "big five" game animals: elephant, buffalo, black rhinoceros, lion and leopard; as well as more than 500 types of bird and many

Soco shifts focus to Viet Nam oil  -  Feb 5, 2008
Viet Nam News,However, the Te Giac Den (black rhinoceros) field where Soco owns 29 per cent of the shares is exciting foreign investors with around one billion barrels of

Earth faces its sixth extinction  -  Jan 28, 2008
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),...the verge of extinction, such as the Yangtze River dolphin, or, like the African black rhinoceros, confined to small, inadequately supportive habitats.

East Bohemian zoo takes pride in rare rhinocero offspring  -  Nov 26, 2007
Prague Daily Monitor,By �?tk / Published 27 November 2007 Dvur Kralove nad Labem, East Bohemia, Nov 26 (CTK) - Another young black rhinoceros, a species threatened with

Seven Days  -  Nov 29, 2007
Prague Post,26, the zoo in Dvůr Králové nad Labem, in east Bohemia, saw the birth of a black rhinoceros, an endangered species. SUICIDE A new study finds that family

Black rhino machine-gunned down in Zim  -  Nov 8, 2007
Independent Online,Harare - Poachers have shot dead three black rhinoceros - a species listed as the most highly endangered large mammal on earth - on a private conservancy,

Scientist saving at-risk species 1 byte at a time  -  Nov 26, 2007
Toledo Blade,During the 1990s, Mr. Lacy was with a group that used a version of his software to determine whether Kenya’s black rhinoceros was in danger of dying out,

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE TYRANNY  -  Nov 16, 2007
American Chronicle,A recent St. Paul Pioneer Press “letter to the editor�? from a second-grader indicates the message is taking root: “The black rhinoceros is becoming extinct

The vagaries of racing play out in public  -  Nov 6, 2007
The Age,I love Goldfield Ashes' colours: red with black rhinoceros. She ran a good third and paid nearly $7 the place. I had a few more Beaver doubles and started

Rhino flattens 'paparazzi' car  -  Nov 19, 2007
News24.com,Addo - A rental car being driven by two "paparazzi" has proven to be no match for an enraged black rhinoceros. Hans Reedjik and his wife, Jannie,

Law students bring home grand prizes  -  22 Oct 2007
Bangkok Post,However, an environmental issue occurred after an environmental impact assessment (EIA) study was conducted to show that the Black Rhinoceros population

Keep DMZ a Place Of Peace  -  Oct 18, 2007
Korea Times,Also in 2007 we lost the West African black rhinoceros, which was poached into extinction largely due to Asian demand for powdered rhino horn,

Rare white rhino born at SA zoo  -  Oct 4, 2007
ABC Online,It is hoped the model can eventually be used to improve the numbers of the black rhinoceros. For now keepers are leaving Watoto to bond and feed with his

Odds and Ends  -  Sep 26, 2007
Seattle Times,ARIEL SCHALIT / AP Careful with the horn, mom: A 2-day-old black rhinoceros is shown with his mother Tanda, 14, at the Ramat Gan Safari on Tuesday near Tel

Day in pictures  -  Sep 25, 2007
BBC News,This newborn black rhinoceros at a safari park in Tel Aviv is the first to have been born in captivity in Israel in 15 years.

Facility for African elephants under way in Somerset County  -  Oct 19, 2007
Pittsburgh Post Gazette,...future projects could include programs for such other endangered species as cheetahs, black rhinoceros, African wild dogs and Grevy's zebras.

Two things to make you smarter and more interesting  -  Sep 24, 2007
The Vail Trail,McElroy has 335 hunted animals listed in SCI record books, including African elephants, Pacific walrus, southern white rhinoceros, black rhinoceros,

The new eco barons  -  Oct 3, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,Today, Marakele is part of a far bigger park system and home to classic African wildlife, including the elephant, white and black rhinoceros, buffalo,

Mayfield-Smith Gets Inside Horses' Minds  -  Oct 15, 2007
Virtual Form Guide,In 1997 they came home and set up a new operation at Flemington where they adopted the Kenyan flag as the stable logo and put a black rhinoceros on the

Satire: Rhino, tickbird stuck in dead-end symbiotic relationship  -  Sep 25, 2007
CNNPOLOKWANE, South Africa (The Onion) -- After three rainy seasons together, a black rhinoceros and a parasite-eating tickbird are beginning to suspect that

Peregrine Adds More Adventure with New Expeditions in 2008  -  Oct 4, 2007
e-Travel Blackboard (press release),...will explore the region on game drives both on foot and by 4WD, in search of the elusive black rhinoceros, desert-adapted elephant and other wildlife.

Unearthing science  -  Sep 30, 2007
Daily Breeze,...large - buried on a southeast section of a college campus, while yards away, near a baseball diamond, a rare black rhinoceros got similar treatment.

'Wild' Birthday Bash At MetroZoo  -  19 Aug 2007
CBS 4,...(CBS4) MIAMI Zoo keepers at Miami Metrozoo held a unique birthday bash Sunday for an endangered black rhinoceros. Andazzi the rhino actually turned one on

Today's Agenda  -  19 Aug 2007
Miami Herald,Happy Birthday Andazzi: Guests can wish Andazzi, the black rhinoceros who turned 1 in July, a happy birthday and enjoy a show from Diego of Nick Jr's Go,

Save the Rhino  -  Aug 8, 2007
ABC Regional Online,Dubbo NSW is working with scientists from Germany to perfect a technique, which could save the endangered Black Rhinoceros and perhaps the White Rhino.

Devilish Support from Suzuki  -  Jul 30, 2007
AutoWeb,Suzuki Australia has joined the fight to save two iconic creatures – the Black Rhinoceros and the Tasmanian Devil – from potential extinction.

Fish and Wildlife Service Announces International Conservation Grants  -  Aug 5, 2007
NewsBlaze,Species that will directly benefit from these projects include the Asian elephant, marine turtles, tigers, and black rhinoceros. Projects will cover a large

High-tech egg hunt in race to save the rhino  -  Jul 27, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,At 0.2 millimetres, a black rhinoceros egg, or oocyte, is almost invisible. Before the surgery began keepers had to perform the tricky task of immobilising,

Making learning a game  -  Aug 15, 2007
FayObserver.com,Other scenarios include traveling to East Africa in search of the black rhinoceros, which is on the verge of extinction. Another program that is in

Suzuki helps Aussie wildlife  -  Aug 1, 2007
CARSguide,Suzuki Australia is kicking into the donation tin to help fund the fight to save two endangered species, the Tasmanian Devil and the Black Rhinoceros.

May Contribution Awards  -  Aug 2, 2007
WLNS,Nearly 40 people at the Lansing zoo were involved in the procedure performed on a 25 hundred pound black rhinoceros.

Looking at Big Bang  25 Sep 2002
PATROLS in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park have cut poaching and increased the population of black rhinoceros, elephants and buffalo, according to a paper ... - Scotsman,

Parasites lost  Nov 12, 2006
In some cases, over the brink. In July, the World Conservation Union declared a West African subspecies of the black rhinoceros to be tentatively extinct. ... - ParamusPost.com,

Abalone smuggling huge in S. Africa  Nov 3, 2006
Black Rhinoceros -- The Black Rhinoceros is a mammal of the Perissodactyla order which lives in the eastern areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon ... - Science Daily (press release)

Declining health causes Racine Zoo staff to put down black ...  Nov 7, 2006
RACINE - The Racine Zoo announced Monday that it humanely euthanized Moja, a male eastern black rhinoceros who lived at the Racine Zoo since June 2002, last ... - Journal Times Online,

Carol Vorderman is the clever magpie. So which bird is Jade Goody ...  Nov 10, 2006
I was visiting Port Lympne wildlife park with my older boy this week, and there was a black rhinoceros stretched out and taking its ease. ... - Times Online,

Fred Hoogervorst: Masai Mara National Reserve  Oct 31, 2006
...hyaena, leopard, wildebeest, zebra, and many of the 500 species of birds as well as the “big five�?: buffalo, cheetah, elephant, lion and black rhinoceros. ... - Africa News,
Zoo closes elephant center deal Mar 22, 2006
Zoo officials plan to introduce three male elephants to the property within two years, followed by female elephants, cheetahs, black rhinoceros, African wild ...
Daily American Online (subscription),
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