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White Rhinocerous Mother & Baby

 Original Acrylic Painting or Limited Edition Giclée Print

This painting in acrylic shows an endangered white rhinoceros mother and baby, endangered by man because they are killed by poachers for their horn to make handles for knives, primarily in Yemen, and for sale to some Orientals who believe the horn, when ground into a powder, has aphrodesiac properties. This is ludicrous since the horn is made of a hair-like growth. It's sad to kill the rhino for something that can't possibly work.

The rhinoceros mother is very protective of it's baby. The long horn makes her a dangerous adversary. She isn't to be trifled with.  Her great weight, tough hide and sharp horn means few predators will bother her.
The white rhinoceros's name isn't derived from it's color but from it's wide mouth. The Afrikaans word for 'wide' sounds like 'white'. The wide mouthed, or white, rhino is a grazer, eating grasses, and the black, or narrow mouthed, rhino is a browser feeding on brush.

Image Size: 21" W X 19" H

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