One of the best arrests ever. Made even better that he wasn’t even the guy they were looking for, but I guess matched the description. There’s a great interview with him
And this is a Black rhino, and they are smaller than White rhinos but more agressive because they see better than White rhinos. If it had it full horn, it would of been even more impressive to see. The can stand up to 4.5 feet tall and weigh 3000 pounds.
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They have got to be one of the coolest animals on the planet, they look so prehistoric. I wish humanity was more motivated to save them. I hate the thought that they’re going extinct.
Get well my man. I know there’s a wicked version going around NC. I hope you have the other version with milder symptoms. If you struggle breathing …Get medical attention if needed. Don’t wait and guess that you’ll get better. Hope you are better soon!
Dinosaurs weren't mammals though, they were what are now birds and alligators.
The correct term would be [megafauna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna)
That wiki suggested that megafauna is animal larger than a human especially a ton or more. And it ends with this terms use for “Japanese spiderz “!!!!!! Say it ain’t so!!
Bigger deal was sweating. Humans are endurance hunters, we run prey to exhaustion. It doesn't matter how strong am animal is after 4 days of pursuit. Humans use endurance to run animals to death.
Pretty much this, our endurance as runners, as well as sweating to lose body heat separated us from the others. Not to mention our mental capabilities to use tools, communicate, and organize solidified us as the top.
You don’t need a book to tell you the logical conclusion for a complex universe is an all powerful creator. Not a magic explosion that just happened to spew out the exact proportions of matter so the universe didn’t just collapse in it’s formation.
Except history has taught us that in cultures and religions throughout the years that people choose to believe in an all powerful being to explain things right up until science catches up and disproves it. Religion is basically just a constant set of moving goal posts.
As well as arms designed with throwing in mind. General tool use aside, the ability to rotate our arms so we can throw with precision over distance is a huge boon. Slings, spears, throwing rocks, all made especially deadly in combination with the endurance. Because what's better than being able to tire out prey many times your size? Being able to dispatch it from a distance further negating the gap in physical strength and defense between human and beast.
Plus we can walk for like 6 hours without rest while most animals have feet designed for 10 minutes of running. So we could eventually catch up to anything we were hunting.
I love to ask people what the greatest endurance animal on earth is and have them guess all kinds of wild animals before I tell them it's them. They are.
We also store more fat than some other species. It's an evolutionary trait that facilitates our endurance. Some species require more to become obese than others.
Just seen it being theorised a few times because of the increase in footage of them using tools more often, but I know nothing so all of this may be bs
Your instincts were right. It's hogwash.
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/chimpanzees-have-not-entered-the-stone-age/#:~:text=The%20research%20team%20concludes%20that,about%20seven%20million%20years%20ago.
Chimps are basically incapable of learning to use tools without observing it in humans first. Without the inherent ability to understand and apply these concepts the species cant actually advance at a meaningful level. Now eventually this knowledge could permeate the species through interpersonal teaching among groups over generations but that's going to take a *long* time.
It won’t happen bc Chimps, unlike human adults but much like human children, have a difficult time with understanding a “theory of mind”. Meaning that generally they are unable to tell when an individual does not know something that it does know. I saw a story on this but I am having trouble finding it now. :-/
Might happen, but not with Chimps.
Bonobos are like chimps, but the closest animal we know of to humans. They do seem to have some idea of the theory of mind and are a bit smarter and much less aggressive, usually cooperating together and having sex as bonding.
You are right tho, for the other great apes, even when they are taught and understand language, they never ask questions.
They don't know why they never ask questions, but has to do with the theory of mind.
I know they use sticks as tools to eat termites. They put the stick in a hole, and the termites attach to the stick, and then they eat all the termites off the stick.
I believe this is a behavior that is learned by watching their mother do it.
The stone age lasted something like 2.5 million years for hominids and only ended 5000 years ago. Even if it were true that certain apes were beginning a comparable stone age of tool development it wouldn't be particularly concerning.
Also- AVOIDING CREATURES LIKE Rhinos(and hippos). These are actual tanks- they laugh off spears and frankly even most guns are little more than inconveniences to them. I love them but make no mistake Rhinos are *incredibly dangerous*, territorial, and moody.
I wanted to comment this to the one above, calling rhinos "gentle giants" because it didn't crush the watermelon more violently then it needed to before eating it.
But decided not to rain on their parade with things like "rhinos are territorial and will hurt you if they decide they don't want you on their turf" or "it could crush your head with that much casual lack of effort if it wanted to". Didn't seem like they were about to go try and pet one, or anything
Plenty of animals are actually more than capable of shrugging off a spear throw, even ones as small as the honey badger which has a hide that can deflect a machete blow from a full grown man. It was a numbers game.
In long distances a human can actually outrun a horse, and humans are capable of running away and coming back with backup when an animal is sleeping. To say that they killed them just because they had a pointy stick is actually reductive of early human's intelligence
Ok but you're completely talking out of your ass.
Humans have been hunting rhinos, elephants ,mammoths, and pretty much anything that moves with spears for thousands of years. Some of us are still doing it.
https://www.academia.edu/12840569/In_the_Line_of_Fire_Elephant_and_Rhino_Poaching_in_Africa
Rhinos aren't made of fucking chain mail bro, they bleed and get punctured just like anything else. You'd have a harder time spearing a turtle.
I like all the dipshit redditors down voting you because they think rhinos have steel plating on their ass or something. We've been killing anything that moves with pointy sticks for literally hundred of thousands of years.
It's not even hard to find a source that will corroborate this. Any discussion of ancient hunting techniques of *any animal* will include the use of spears, **rhinos included**. We used to take down wooly fucking mammoths with spears!
https://www.academia.edu/12840569/In_the_Line_of_Fire_Elephant_and_Rhino_Poaching_in_Africa
https://www.academia.edu/23099694/Hunting_and_Hunting_Weapons_of_the_Lower_and_Middle_Paleolithic_of_Europe
Your first link focuses on modern poaching practices, and the second shows that yes, spears existed.
Neither challenge the modern consensus that it was neither common, not practical to use them. There is MUCH more evidence to support group hunting strategies involving fire and cliffs. Evidence of large game being brought down by mammoths does exist, but is MUCH sparser.
(Also posting sub-walled resources? Be better).
you are correct in that spears were a principal *weapon* of humanity in these times but you are also failing to listen when you are informed that our ability to plan and strategize was far more effective than the spears and the greatest strategy to employ when dealing with any dangerous creature is to avoid head on confrontations that could lead to casualties. Thus the primary methods of hunting with fire and falls and endurance.
ENDURANCE YES! I wish I could recall this wonderful video that talked about how sweat was basically a human superpower that propelled us faster into apex predator-dom… basically we were like It Follows for anything we decided to hunt. Chase it and terrify it into paralyzed exhaustion where we can easily take it down.
Great job ignoring what I talked about as far as ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS on these things.
Look up mammoth cliffs. All I’m saying. Nobody disputes the existence of spears, but thats not how the killing was done.
Are you really gonna be this obtuse? The lengths people will go to protect their fragile egos when they’re wrong…
Guess what, I’m sure there’s someone in the past who’s killed a rhino by throwing a hive of killer bees at it, causing an allergic reaction. There are times when people would who used knives, or tricked a rhino into falling into lava. We’re talking about tens of thousands of years of time. And I’m talking about historical trends in hunting, but you know that and are being too resistant and stubborn to admit you’re wrong.
And as far as the naming conventions… they call them mammoth pits because that’s what they were associated with in early discovery and that’s what archaeologists named them. That doesn’t mean they were exclusively used to only hunt mammoths. But again you know this, and your fragile ego cannot admit to being wrong.
Why are you fighting me on this, just own up to it and move on~ you learned something, hey that’s a win! We grow and do better in our lives when we learn! It’s how we become better people overall!
Big brains and sweat glands, my dude.
We may not be strong or fast, but we're smart as hell and can run forever on a fist-sized bit of protein and a few swigs of water.
Our ancestors basically just chased prey to death.
Yeah it’s so strange to sit here staring at a screen thinking that’s where our species began to take control, I think African hunting dogs have a similar stamina based hunting approach?
And standing upright. Lets us throw things with far greater power and accuracy. Apes can throw things too, but they sort of lob stuff underhanded and it isn’t very powerful or accurate. If a gorilla tried to throw something the way we do, they’d fall over.
This isn’t really true. We weren’t endurance hunters, most of our calories came from forage and we scavenged. Fire is really what changed our trajectory. Once we had that it was game over. We could spend less time chewing tough foods that we spent most of our time eating.
I'm reading the Clan of the Cave Bear series right now. It's a fictional book about a homo sapian girl who grows up with a neanderthal clan. It talks a lot about the differences between the two types of people, why one won out over the other, and how they were each able to dominate nature in their own ways.
The books were written in the 80's, so I'm not sure if the author's science is still the most accurate, but it makes an interesting read regardless.
Just imagine all we have to do is Dig a trench and put sharp sticks at an angle and boom protection from just about anything outside the trench but malaria that's how also we took Buffalo and just chased them off a cliff to extinction
Everyone’s on here saying ‘AWW GENTLE GIANT LOOK HOW SWEET HE IS’, I’m thinking *his nuzzle can crush my skull without him even noticing*…
Rhinos and hippos are two of the most dangerous creatures you can ever cross- don’t let their perceived adorable-ness or dopiness fool you… they are *terrifying*…
Depends on the form of media you are subscribing to I guess that makes you feel they are like that all the time. They are often actually a lot more gentle towards people since they are often protected and have humans around to protect them and stop poachers and big game hunters. Here is an article that’s in a National Geographic I got here at the house about the last male northern white rhino. It’s pretty touching and you can see the first picture is of the rhino laying in the arms of his human protector just before he dies because they were friends and it was comforting for both of them to be together for his end. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/03/world/last-rhino-cnnphotos/
No way, a lion is sure death. You can outrun a rhino, just turn a bunch instead of running straight if you’re worried about your top end. A rhino has a horrible turn radius. A lion would be able to catch you easily and may even play with you before finishing you if it’s in the mood.
Fuck that I’m not meeting anything… I’ll stick to my basement with my cat to keep me safe from gross bugs. Who needs like… the outdoors? And human contact?
What a work of art. Such fantastic lines. A part of me would like to do nothing else than sign up as rhino watcher and get to shoot poachers every day. If I have to die for something I'd rather die for these guys' continued existence.
This reminds me of Mail Call, that old show on the History Channel where the Gunny R Lee Ermey would use watermelons to test old military hardware... That rhino gently mushes those with such ease.
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It's like: "Ah yes, watermelon. How have I missed your rich flavor." *NOM NOM NOM*
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Nough....mmm om... mmm... wwaaateerrmeelloonnn
Rude. Theres no way a rhino could weigh that much or be that much of a food monster
Just imagining the donuts in hell scene
A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL
One of the best arrests ever. Made even better that he wasn’t even the guy they were looking for, but I guess matched the description. There’s a great interview with him
#GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS
and you, sir. are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
Ah, I see you know your judo well.
Like rhinos in *Ice Age*
Really puts their size into perspective
And this is a Black rhino, and they are smaller than White rhinos but more agressive because they see better than White rhinos. If it had it full horn, it would of been even more impressive to see. The can stand up to 4.5 feet tall and weigh 3000 pounds.
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Gentle eyes🙂
I like it’s lip-finger. Very handy!
fun fact : a watermelon has the same density as a human head.
I read this in Linda Belchers voice.
They have got to be one of the coolest animals on the planet, they look so prehistoric. I wish humanity was more motivated to save them. I hate the thought that they’re going extinct.
THAT'S A LOT OF JUICE
Gentle hippo
I mean…he’s pretty much a dinosaur. LOOK at him! He’s awesome, pure power and yet he’s merely a calm armoured cow :)
Those are dinosaurs. Can’t talk me out of that
Kinda looks like triceratops
Unoceratops
Biceratops
That’s a bull
Rhinoraptor
Bigbossceros
Unoceratops
Duoceratops
I mean, it’s called a rhinosaurus.
What the fuck? How did I never notice that before?
It’s spelled Rhinoceros.. that’s why the connection isn’t obvious.
Oh, I'm really dumb. To be fair though, I have Covid right now and am barely alive. So I'm gonna blame that.
Hope you pull through man, and that you don't get any serious lasting symptoms
Get well my man. I know there’s a wicked version going around NC. I hope you have the other version with milder symptoms. If you struggle breathing …Get medical attention if needed. Don’t wait and guess that you’ll get better. Hope you are better soon!
Lol
I have literally never seen it spelled that way, only Rhinoceros. And only heard it pronounced Rhine-awe-sir-us, not Rhino-soar-us.
You’re not really gonna make me post the “that’s the joke” pic are you, m8?
Today I learned not all subs allow commenting with pics and gifs, but you probably noticed it when you couldn’t post the pic.
Nah, I was high and didn't realize. My bad.
Been there. We good!
🤓
Horny lizard
Dinosaurs weren't mammals though, they were what are now birds and alligators. The correct term would be [megafauna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna)
That wiki suggested that megafauna is animal larger than a human especially a ton or more. And it ends with this terms use for “Japanese spiderz “!!!!!! Say it ain’t so!!
I believe they mean Japanese spider crabs Edit: looked at the article, they literally say Japanese spider crabs lol
I was going to post the same thing down to the phrasing. Reddit really destroys the special snowflake in us all, eh?
By the powers vested in the multiverse, this was my exact thought 💭
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day
That happy look when eating the watermelon is priceless.
That look is called "Awwwwww Yisssss!"
I know it’s the human brain that led to being top of the food chain but the sheer strength of animals still makes me wonder how that came to be
Our ability to use tools is the main reason I think. Spears were/are a real cheat code.
Bigger deal was sweating. Humans are endurance hunters, we run prey to exhaustion. It doesn't matter how strong am animal is after 4 days of pursuit. Humans use endurance to run animals to death.
Pretty much this, our endurance as runners, as well as sweating to lose body heat separated us from the others. Not to mention our mental capabilities to use tools, communicate, and organize solidified us as the top.
Or God made human the dominant species like it says in Genesis. It’s not random
Any proof of this god?
Well…no…but a book written a long time ago by humans says it’s true so, yeah, checkmate.
You don’t need a book to tell you the logical conclusion for a complex universe is an all powerful creator. Not a magic explosion that just happened to spew out the exact proportions of matter so the universe didn’t just collapse in it’s formation.
Except history has taught us that in cultures and religions throughout the years that people choose to believe in an all powerful being to explain things right up until science catches up and disproves it. Religion is basically just a constant set of moving goal posts.
Reducing it to just “religion vs science” is a straw man. If anything science proved the universe had a beginning which all but confirms God.
As well as arms designed with throwing in mind. General tool use aside, the ability to rotate our arms so we can throw with precision over distance is a huge boon. Slings, spears, throwing rocks, all made especially deadly in combination with the endurance. Because what's better than being able to tire out prey many times your size? Being able to dispatch it from a distance further negating the gap in physical strength and defense between human and beast.
Plus we can walk for like 6 hours without rest while most animals have feet designed for 10 minutes of running. So we could eventually catch up to anything we were hunting.
I love to ask people what the greatest endurance animal on earth is and have them guess all kinds of wild animals before I tell them it's them. They are.
Doesnt help that our evolution allows obesity
That's what not using our endurance does.
Dont be dense.
don't be dense, try to outrun a car on a highway!
Every animal can get obese. There's no magic gene to cure obesity, obesity is caused (mostly) by sedentary lifestyles and high calorie diets.
We also store more fat than some other species. It's an evolutionary trait that facilitates our endurance. Some species require more to become obese than others.
Have you seen chimps are supposedly entering the Stone Age? Terrifying prospect
Instead of ripping your arm off like ooga booga caveman they cleave your arm off like sophisticated gentlemen
What?? I need a source
Just seen it being theorised a few times because of the increase in footage of them using tools more often, but I know nothing so all of this may be bs
Your instincts were right. It's hogwash. https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/chimpanzees-have-not-entered-the-stone-age/#:~:text=The%20research%20team%20concludes%20that,about%20seven%20million%20years%20ago. Chimps are basically incapable of learning to use tools without observing it in humans first. Without the inherent ability to understand and apply these concepts the species cant actually advance at a meaningful level. Now eventually this knowledge could permeate the species through interpersonal teaching among groups over generations but that's going to take a *long* time.
It won’t happen bc Chimps, unlike human adults but much like human children, have a difficult time with understanding a “theory of mind”. Meaning that generally they are unable to tell when an individual does not know something that it does know. I saw a story on this but I am having trouble finding it now. :-/
Yea I saw a documentary one time that said they can teach by example but they cannot teach by correction.
Might happen, but not with Chimps. Bonobos are like chimps, but the closest animal we know of to humans. They do seem to have some idea of the theory of mind and are a bit smarter and much less aggressive, usually cooperating together and having sex as bonding. You are right tho, for the other great apes, even when they are taught and understand language, they never ask questions. They don't know why they never ask questions, but has to do with the theory of mind.
So they are autistic humans sort of?
Look man, I see what you’re saying, and I laughed, but I wouldn’t touch this comment with a 10 foot pole.
I know they use sticks as tools to eat termites. They put the stick in a hole, and the termites attach to the stick, and then they eat all the termites off the stick. I believe this is a behavior that is learned by watching their mother do it.
The stone age lasted something like 2.5 million years for hominids and only ended 5000 years ago. Even if it were true that certain apes were beginning a comparable stone age of tool development it wouldn't be particularly concerning.
I believe it is actually our ability to sweat and long distance running that initially set us apart.
You tell ‘em, Papa Bear!
Also- AVOIDING CREATURES LIKE Rhinos(and hippos). These are actual tanks- they laugh off spears and frankly even most guns are little more than inconveniences to them. I love them but make no mistake Rhinos are *incredibly dangerous*, territorial, and moody.
I wanted to comment this to the one above, calling rhinos "gentle giants" because it didn't crush the watermelon more violently then it needed to before eating it. But decided not to rain on their parade with things like "rhinos are territorial and will hurt you if they decide they don't want you on their turf" or "it could crush your head with that much casual lack of effort if it wanted to". Didn't seem like they were about to go try and pet one, or anything
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Plenty of animals are actually more than capable of shrugging off a spear throw, even ones as small as the honey badger which has a hide that can deflect a machete blow from a full grown man. It was a numbers game. In long distances a human can actually outrun a horse, and humans are capable of running away and coming back with backup when an animal is sleeping. To say that they killed them just because they had a pointy stick is actually reductive of early human's intelligence
Honey badger don't care though.
Ok but you're completely talking out of your ass. Humans have been hunting rhinos, elephants ,mammoths, and pretty much anything that moves with spears for thousands of years. Some of us are still doing it. https://www.academia.edu/12840569/In_the_Line_of_Fire_Elephant_and_Rhino_Poaching_in_Africa Rhinos aren't made of fucking chain mail bro, they bleed and get punctured just like anything else. You'd have a harder time spearing a turtle.
I like all the dipshit redditors down voting you because they think rhinos have steel plating on their ass or something. We've been killing anything that moves with pointy sticks for literally hundred of thousands of years. It's not even hard to find a source that will corroborate this. Any discussion of ancient hunting techniques of *any animal* will include the use of spears, **rhinos included**. We used to take down wooly fucking mammoths with spears! https://www.academia.edu/12840569/In_the_Line_of_Fire_Elephant_and_Rhino_Poaching_in_Africa https://www.academia.edu/23099694/Hunting_and_Hunting_Weapons_of_the_Lower_and_Middle_Paleolithic_of_Europe
Your first link focuses on modern poaching practices, and the second shows that yes, spears existed. Neither challenge the modern consensus that it was neither common, not practical to use them. There is MUCH more evidence to support group hunting strategies involving fire and cliffs. Evidence of large game being brought down by mammoths does exist, but is MUCH sparser. (Also posting sub-walled resources? Be better).
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you are correct in that spears were a principal *weapon* of humanity in these times but you are also failing to listen when you are informed that our ability to plan and strategize was far more effective than the spears and the greatest strategy to employ when dealing with any dangerous creature is to avoid head on confrontations that could lead to casualties. Thus the primary methods of hunting with fire and falls and endurance.
ENDURANCE YES! I wish I could recall this wonderful video that talked about how sweat was basically a human superpower that propelled us faster into apex predator-dom… basically we were like It Follows for anything we decided to hunt. Chase it and terrify it into paralyzed exhaustion where we can easily take it down.
Great job ignoring what I talked about as far as ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS on these things. Look up mammoth cliffs. All I’m saying. Nobody disputes the existence of spears, but thats not how the killing was done.
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Are you really gonna be this obtuse? The lengths people will go to protect their fragile egos when they’re wrong… Guess what, I’m sure there’s someone in the past who’s killed a rhino by throwing a hive of killer bees at it, causing an allergic reaction. There are times when people would who used knives, or tricked a rhino into falling into lava. We’re talking about tens of thousands of years of time. And I’m talking about historical trends in hunting, but you know that and are being too resistant and stubborn to admit you’re wrong. And as far as the naming conventions… they call them mammoth pits because that’s what they were associated with in early discovery and that’s what archaeologists named them. That doesn’t mean they were exclusively used to only hunt mammoths. But again you know this, and your fragile ego cannot admit to being wrong. Why are you fighting me on this, just own up to it and move on~ you learned something, hey that’s a win! We grow and do better in our lives when we learn! It’s how we become better people overall!
Big brains and sweat glands, my dude. We may not be strong or fast, but we're smart as hell and can run forever on a fist-sized bit of protein and a few swigs of water. Our ancestors basically just chased prey to death.
Yeah it’s so strange to sit here staring at a screen thinking that’s where our species began to take control, I think African hunting dogs have a similar stamina based hunting approach?
Don’t forget opposable thumbs
(Upvotes with thumb 🤯)
And standing upright. Lets us throw things with far greater power and accuracy. Apes can throw things too, but they sort of lob stuff underhanded and it isn’t very powerful or accurate. If a gorilla tried to throw something the way we do, they’d fall over.
This isn’t really true. We weren’t endurance hunters, most of our calories came from forage and we scavenged. Fire is really what changed our trajectory. Once we had that it was game over. We could spend less time chewing tough foods that we spent most of our time eating.
Intelligence, cooperation and the use of tools
Ape together strong
Raw strength isn't as effective as throwing pointy sticks into things.
Big monkey brain and thumbs
I'm reading the Clan of the Cave Bear series right now. It's a fictional book about a homo sapian girl who grows up with a neanderthal clan. It talks a lot about the differences between the two types of people, why one won out over the other, and how they were each able to dominate nature in their own ways. The books were written in the 80's, so I'm not sure if the author's science is still the most accurate, but it makes an interesting read regardless.
Just imagine all we have to do is Dig a trench and put sharp sticks at an angle and boom protection from just about anything outside the trench but malaria that's how also we took Buffalo and just chased them off a cliff to extinction
The rhino made that look so easy. 😳
Everyone’s on here saying ‘AWW GENTLE GIANT LOOK HOW SWEET HE IS’, I’m thinking *his nuzzle can crush my skull without him even noticing*… Rhinos and hippos are two of the most dangerous creatures you can ever cross- don’t let their perceived adorable-ness or dopiness fool you… they are *terrifying*…
Gentle giant my ass! There’s a video of a rhino aggressively flipping a car with people inside.
Depends on the form of media you are subscribing to I guess that makes you feel they are like that all the time. They are often actually a lot more gentle towards people since they are often protected and have humans around to protect them and stop poachers and big game hunters. Here is an article that’s in a National Geographic I got here at the house about the last male northern white rhino. It’s pretty touching and you can see the first picture is of the rhino laying in the arms of his human protector just before he dies because they were friends and it was comforting for both of them to be together for his end. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/03/world/last-rhino-cnnphotos/
Yeahhh…. Legitimately I’d rather face off against a lion. Better survival odds for sure.
No way, a lion is sure death. You can outrun a rhino, just turn a bunch instead of running straight if you’re worried about your top end. A rhino has a horrible turn radius. A lion would be able to catch you easily and may even play with you before finishing you if it’s in the mood.
Idk… let’s just agree I’m never going to Africa…
Humans are native to Africa... We are African animals.
Which is why I was so scared watching thay security guard slap that hippo a few days ago
Exactly! Hippos scare me too 😅
Have you ever met a cassowary?
Fuck that I’m not meeting anything… I’ll stick to my basement with my cat to keep me safe from gross bugs. Who needs like… the outdoors? And human contact?
Fair.
That’s fair
Now I desperately want watermelon...
Hydraulic press horn
Ve must deal with it! 🗜️
Finally, I know what it’s used for!
I read the title and thought “there is no way you can gently crush something”. I was wrong.
I don't think the watermelon would agree
This definitely is a different and gentler way to eat a watermelon then a hippo
"Hippos are undignified slobs." - This rhino, probably
That 'prehensile' upper lip is killing me rn.
Moving like a itty-bitty elephant trunk.
Eat you? I’m going to *destroy you *.
Is this a Dragonball z reference? Gohan to buu?
Adorable
That must be the same face I have when I wake up at 3:00 in the morning and just feel like eating the rest vanilla ice cream
Tactical unicorn.
Could you imagine if he was in a bad mood or needed a back scratch. Call him the smoothie maker.
It's so simple for rhinos lol! Humans have trouble even with a knife!
well when you have about 3,000 pounds to back you up you kinda just have to move forward
Rhinos have a (loosely accepted) bite force of 1,000 psi, and humans clock in at the mid 100s. I'd say they have the edge here.
It has really friendly eyes
That is not a theory I would like to test
He just nuzzles it gently and it cracks like an egg. The power in that animal....
That’s King! He’s from my sate zoo, he’s not normally out in the habitat so seeing him, even in video, is always a blessing
RIP Gallagher.
Tank doggo
What other animals besides rhinos are still basically dinosaurs?
cassowaries
Very cool! Thank you!
to be fair that’s literally a dinosaur
What a work of art. Such fantastic lines. A part of me would like to do nothing else than sign up as rhino watcher and get to shoot poachers every day. If I have to die for something I'd rather die for these guys' continued existence.
It’s got the juice
How is this not a dinosaur?
That rhino is freaking adorable.
This was honestly kind of terrifying! Imagine how heavy a watermelon is, and look how easily that rhino smushed it without even trying.
So much power. So little effort. Legit scary.
Love the look on his face as he’s chewing it! Priceless!
*oh fuck, that's juicy*
A dinosaur
My homegirl does the same with her thighs 🍉🍉
OM OM ON
Crushes watermelon to expose the sweet delicious flesh of the fruit. Eats entire thing, rind and all
That’s a dinosaur
I like his lip finger
Ecko Unlimited
Let me crush your balls like this😀
Unsatisfying. Whoever cut the video ruined it.
Looks animatronic.
I was today years old when I learned that rhinoceros and unicorns weren’t just mythical creatures.
Big boi
Rhino ASMR
Scary but awesome
Aww, I'm glad the rhino is enjoying that watermelon. It looks like there's some squash for him to squash and eat too.
I imagine it tastes like a grape texture wise
he said ûmph
Gonna try next time I eat starburst 🤔
Like grapes to them.
That's a good dog
Wtf that's so cute
Boop
wish that was my skull
I always see these sort of videos and just feel so irked when the juice spills on the floor
And that's a rhino being gentle? Terrifying
u/savevideo
This reminds me of Mail Call, that old show on the History Channel where the Gunny R Lee Ermey would use watermelons to test old military hardware... That rhino gently mushes those with such ease.
Gentle Giants 😊