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Looking for love, white rhino Emma arrives in Japan

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She looks kind of horny in that picture.

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Hot and ready to trot.

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For a horny rhino *@zichi 7:29am**:*

-“ What is the Japanese onomatopoeia (sound for a White Rhino? “

Perhaps “pyon pyon” ?

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You would never guess this is what a rhino sounds like @zichi 7:29am. It’s actually quite “cute”, very “sweet” and remarkably like “a playful, beluga whale call!” Here you go:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCC6ZYI3SI -
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Just tell us they plucked the Rhino from Zimbabwe for 2 yen already!

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What would happen if you crossed an elephant with a rhino?

Hell-if-I-know

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This is an species that was considered functionally extinct previously, and shows that making an international effort to rescue them can have spectacular results, hopefully people that see it live will understand better the value of conservation and will look more favorably to the efforts being done with this purpose.

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It’s ‘subjective’ @zich 9:15am but from the video, perhaps the Japanese onomatopoeia of ‘snorting and snoring’ could be used: “gu gu”.

Seems like these rhinos may snort like horses when smelling, perhaps when looking for mate, when threatened or when eating, like a pig, bull or buffalo.

Good luck in your pursuit of this interesting bit of trivia. Agreed, “elephino” is wittier when written in text form.

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To your point, @kentaro 9:43am …

- “There are good zoos that take care of endangered species, like this rhino...“ -

… these rhinos and last week’s pandas are getting the necessary care & attention from Japanese zoos yet, their record with abandoning dolphins & marine life in aquariums is deplorable. (Tragic from a culture so connected to a resource that surrounds and sustains it for millennia.)

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tokyo-m:

Poor creature. No freedom, stuck in tiny concrete and metal cages just so humans can gawp at her. Zoos really are rotten places.

This is especially true of Japanese zoos. Absolute awful places. Koala bears may get pampered (in public), but the monkeys and other animals are left to suffer from mental illnesses. Concrete and car tires will not cheer them up.

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What's really sad is the fact that these rhinos are safer in the zoos than in the wild because countries like China want to have weird medicinal fixations about their horns.

Unless the UN declares a shoot on sight war with the poachers, which it'll never do, the survival of rhinos and other endangered creatures is really bleak. Their habitat is shrinking and coupled together with the demand and black market for these rare animals . . . it's not good, not good at all.

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By keeping her in a tiny cage, and putting her on display for people's entertainment. In order to protect rhinos, or any other wild animals, they should be protected where they are, in their natural environment. Saitama Zoo isn't protecting this creature, it's exploiting her and abusing her.

Rhinos aren't exactly doing well in Africa bud.

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Zoos must be banned globally, and instead, natural parks/safari parks must be encouraged. This not only gives a better environment, space, and home feeling to the animals but also increases the ever diminishing green space.

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At 25 seconds into this one, zichi, the stressed and angry sound is rendered by the editor as 「ぶ~ううう」 buh.. uuuh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WvhUmWPHA

On the other hand it is described as シュニーン Shuni.....n

http://seibutsu.blog.jp/archives/12230725.html/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%81%AE%E9%B3%B4%E3%81%8D%E5%A3%B0%E3%81%AF%E3%80%8C%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%81%EF%BC%81%EF%BC%81%E3%80%8D

In another video with 10 voices of a bubbling rhino half submerged, one commentator wrote below that it sounds like an old man snoring. なんかおっさんのイビキみたい

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3k8xy3szWk

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Thanks for sharing that, … @nandakandamanda 12:36pm, … makeshift “rhino water park” video! (Perhaps something about that Japanese woman’s “Sugio na…, sugoi na…!” had that rhino “putting on a show” for the crowd. (Sadly, the 1st one is really stressed out.)

Horses, tapir and rhinos all have a common ancestor. You can ‘sense it’ when they run.

now try this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCC6ZYI3SI -

Best wishes to Emma!

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@SMH Awww, so sweet! LOL

Thank you.

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Tokyo-m

By keeping her in a tiny cage, and putting her on display for people's entertainment. In order to protect rhinos, or any other wild animals, they should be protected where they are, in their natural environment. Saitama Zoo isn't protecting this creature, it's exploiting her and abusing her.

True, but alas safer for her than Africa, where poachers kill them for their horns to satisfy Chinese demand.

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Poor animal ... Japan is still in the 19th century for animal condition

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Japanese zoos are horrendous places for the animals. They are built purely for the Japanese people visiting.

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And this poor creature isn't exactly doing well in Japan, unless you think confinement to a tiny cage, a minuscule fraction of the space she needs, is doing well... "bud".

They're being slaughtered in Africa by poachers. A zoo is a step up, at least they're alive. Ideally they'll go to preserves in places like Florida.

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