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© 2021 AFPLooking for love, white rhino Emma arrives in Japan
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GdTokyo
She looks kind of horny in that picture.
Blacklabel
Hot and ready to trot.
snowymountainhell
For a horny rhino *@zichi 7:29am**:*
Perhaps “pyon pyon” ?
snowymountainhell
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 -1738Kwaaa!!
Just tell us they plucked the Rhino from Zimbabwe for 2 yen already!
stormcrow
What would happen if you crossed an elephant with a rhino?
Hell-if-I-know
virusrex
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.
snowymountainhell
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.
snowymountainhell
To your point, @kentaro 9:43am …
… 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.)
Pukey2
tokyo-m:
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.
stormcrow
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.
Joe Blow
Rhinos aren't exactly doing well in Africa bud.
Namaste2You
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.
nandakandamanda
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
snowymountainhell
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!
nandakandamanda
@SMH Awww, so sweet! LOL
Thank you.
Zaphod
Tokyo-m
True, but alas safer for her than Africa, where poachers kill them for their horns to satisfy Chinese demand.
gakinotsukai
Poor animal ... Japan is still in the 19th century for animal condition
David Brent
Japanese zoos are horrendous places for the animals. They are built purely for the Japanese people visiting.
Joe Blow
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.