Rhinoceros by photosynthesis

Photography • Animals • posted on Mar 10, 2016

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Taken at the Budapest Zoo. I'm not sure why they rub their horns on wood - I suspect it's to either clean or sharpen them... Please zoom.

Comments (9)

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Faemike55

10:40AM | Thu, 10 March 2016

Great capture

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kgb224

11:17AM | Thu, 10 March 2016

Wonderful capture my friend. God bless.

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T.Rex

11:50AM | Thu, 10 March 2016

Nice photo of this fellow. The rubbing of the horn is to clean it, but also to rub off the outermost layer since the horn grows continually. It is actually made of compacted hair. Keep up the good work! :-)

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durleybeachbum

12:18PM | Thu, 10 March 2016

Lovely animals. I have been watching an attempted pairing of two at Chester Zoo on TV, who specialise in the breeding of endangered species.

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sandra46

12:25PM | Thu, 10 March 2016

GREAT PHOTO

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SunriseGirl

5:46PM | Thu, 10 March 2016

I like the skin details in this shot. It is nice to know wrinkles can be beautiful since I also have many of them :)

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kenmo

10:30AM | Fri, 11 March 2016

Excellent.....

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beachsidelegs

2:53PM | Fri, 11 March 2016

Orphaned young have their horn filed down when released back into the wild so they wont be killed by poachers isn't that sad they cant live a normal life not that many left in the wild and could be extinct within five years :( Fantastic picture my friend :)

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