(Shortly after completing his presidency, Roosevelt went on safari with his son, Kermit, slaughtering 512 animals, including 17 lions, 11 elephants and 20 rhinoceros).
Albrecht Dürer – Rhinoceros (1515) Albrecht Durer's woodcut of a rare and novel beast is a magnificent product of the curious, questioning Renaissance mind.
"You smell like a rhinoceros," he adds.
Spices, rare timbers, rhinoceros horn, silks, jewels, lacquerware, celadon, folding screens and the magical ingredients on which alchemists base their art: all filled up the warehouses at Naha, the main Okinawa port.
Demand for rhinoceros horns, the paws and bile of Asiatic black bears and sun bears, tiger bones and penises, and deer musk, is stimulated by the healing powers ascribed to them in traditional Chinese medicine.
The menu, he promised, would include "human flesh, brain of bourgeois and tigress clitorises sautéed in rhinoceros butter".
CONTRARY to widespread belief in China and South-East Asia, the rhinoceros horn has no proven medicinal or aphrodisiac qualities.
One of UNESCO's big disappointments, Mr Bandarin says, was the ineffectiveness of its efforts—along with several other agencies to preserve a rare white rhinoceros at Garamba national park in Congo.
His favourite animal is the rhinoceros, and rhetorically he charges ahead in much the same way.
Its Africans are crude caricatures: child-men with wide eyes and bloated lips who prostrate themselves before Tintin (as well as Snowy his dog), after he shows off such magic as an electromagnet, or quinine pills for malaria.In Scandinavia the staggering toll of African wildlife Tintin kills especially a rhinoceros he reduces to blackened chunks with dynamite has prompted additional angst.
In North America there were giant sloths, a lion, short-faced bears, mammoths, mastodons, a sabre-toothed salmon and much more; in Europe and Asia there were woolly mammoths, aurochs, lions and several sorts of rhinoceros.
