Rhinoceros Habitat Horns Wildlife Photography

(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5)
You need to be a registered member to rate this post.

 Loading ...

The most outstanding part of a Rhinoceros is it’s large horn on top of it’s nose.

Taking a photograph of a rhino, one has to keep a good distance between lest it somehow gets disturbed by your presence there. By then, I hope you’ve bought really good shoes have been exercising regularly.

Unlike other horned mammals, the rhino’s horn is made up of keratin only, the same substance as our hair and nails. That means, when a rhino dies, you will find no horns in the skeleton because there’s no bone structure to it, though it’s hard as one.

The horns has healing properties, so while out in the jungle snapping happy pictures of the rhinos and their little kids. If you happen to fall sick, creep up on one, saw the whole horn off the mom and dad, and photograph some rare scenes of charging rhinos.

The horns on the rhinoceros’ nose is meant for self-protection. It doesn’t eat meat and has it’s thick hide and skin gives the rhino looking like one who has his body fully armored.

Below are some interesting facts I’ve summarized from Wikipedia about Rhinoceros:

The White Rhinoceros is actually gray. I feel that the people who found it in the first place, didn’t do their white balance on their camera, went home to their dark room and out came a white rhino instead of a gray one. Must be one of those ancient photography cameras.

The plural in English is rhinoceroses. Nobody uses it, yet a single rhino isn’t called ‘rhinocero’. A tongue twisting factor those those in wildlife photography. “Oh look, there goes a rhinocero!”. “Rhino” is obviously an abbreviated term, so that doesn’t count.

All rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes except the Black Rhinoceros, which has 84. The Black Rhinoceros has a beak shaped lip and unlike it’s name, it’s thick skin color is similiar to the White Rhinoceros. So much for white balancing. The camera brand probably extinct a long time ago from it’s terrible color rendition. I wonder what’s it like to have rhino chromosomes running through your blood? You’ll then become horny >D

Shot taken with a Nikon D300 | AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Camera Make:  NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Shooting Time: 07-Sep-09 10:54:53 AM
Aperture:        F/4.5
F-Number:       F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/800 sec
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec
ISO Speed:      ISO 800
White Balance: Custom
Exposure Bias: 0 step
Focal Length:   200 mm
Metering Mode: Pattern
Exp. Program:  Aperture Priority
Flash: Not fired