Rhinoceros in Love is one of the“Pessimism Trilogy”from LIAO Yimei, one of the most well-know script writers in China. One man, obstinate as rhinoceros, fell in love with a woman. He overstated the differences between her and other women and did everything for her, a pure love story.
“Imagine... these regions populated by mammoths, rhinos, lions, panthers, bears ... “ A bestiary of prehistory is a lesson about primitive fauna that invites us to know discover how an animal can be represented in many ways. It is a beautiful recreation of paintings made over thirty thousand years ago discovered inside several caves and caverns through Europe. This book offers a rich and fun approach to the reading of the image, and accounts for the necessity man have alwayshad to express and transcend through art.
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Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish. The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding. This edition includes: - New and revised chapters on climate change and sustainability, ethics, and philosophy to ensure that the book provides the latest information in a changing world; - New information on human interactions with other animal species, big data, modern technologies, brain function, emotions and behaviour; - Solutions and advice for common abnormal behaviours. Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.
Never Mashamba’s 12th birthday couldn’t go worse. His father, the scientific genius Dr. Mashamba, is shot and wounded by poachers. But the criminals are really after the hybrid rhino calf Sipho, which his father crossbred against all odds. The Mashambas must flee Zimbabwe for a game farm in South Africa, where Dr Mashamba can recuperate and Sipho can get the care he needs. Never soon realises that Sipho is in danger, but his father doesn’t pay attention to his fears. Who exactly is after Sipho the rhino calf, and why? Can Never trust his new friends, Becks and Dumisani? And what does a mysterious Ganesh pendant — the only thing Never has from his birth family — have to do with all this?
Friendship blooms when a mutual affection connects people to each other. This affection can be created by mutually loving anything; in the case of our story, it’s a beautiful little dandelion which carries the news of new friendships across the land. Through its journey, a little rhino, an alligator, a parrot, a zebra, a giraffe and even an elephant follow it to its destination. Once the dandelion reaches home, the animals realize that they have become friends along the way.
The animals in the zoo, you know, it’s their job. And sometimes, they take a few holiday. And here we are on the tracks of impassive Mister Rhino, ready to rest two weeks in Africa. A discreet and moderate text quite makes way for Aurélie Neyret’s magnificent illustrations, sensational in it very large size. A kind of serenity springs out of these improbable holidays: mister Rhino’s lazyness is communicative. An ode in the slowness, in the poetry, in the beauty of the big landscapes, in the trail of a silent and charming rhinoceros.
It is a very hot day and the mud pool is the best place to stay cool.But the mud is too dirty for Sero the rhinoceros.Until a fly begins to bother him.And more flies are coming! What do you think Sero will do in the end? Apart from a cute story and beautiful illustrations, the book also includes educational information about rhinoceroses so children can learn facts about the mighty animal.
Basile and Messaoud are delighted to attend a wrestling match organized in their city. They know Ali Gator, the formidable champion. But they don’t know who his opponent, Rhino Ferocious, is. All day they wonder about the identity of the latter: could it be the butcher? the mailman? or maybe even the teacher? When they attend the fight, the boys are dazzled: Rhino Ferocious manages to win thanks to his agility and flexibility. After the match, they go to the locker room in the hope of meeting him… and come face to face with none other than Basile’s mom! • Overcoming stereotypes and refusing labels • Wrestling; between fighting and theater • Humorous and light illustrations
In this story the children will learn about the most famous rhinoceros in the world, as it inspired the painter Albrecht Dürer to create a woodcut that is one of the most important works of art of the 16th century. The readers get to know about the journey that the rhinoceros made from his own voice.
When little Mica Mouse is scared by thunder booming outside her cozy home, Papa Mouse reaches for just the right story to comfort her. Hugging her close, he begins to read The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm. In this poetic book-within-a-book, a happy little rhinoceros is overwhelmed by a storm that sweeps away everything he loves. Swallowing the storm just makes him feel worse, so Rhino sets off on a whimsical journey toward healing. Rhino is an engaging resource to help children express their feelings and navigate through difficult experiences. The “Take a Deeper Look” page at the end of the book even provides discussion questions to facilitate a healing dialogue. In 2016, First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama read The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm with our co-author LeVar Burton (Star Trek actor). Democratic presidential nominee (then vice-president) Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden read the book to military families at an event at their home. More than 4 million Twitter fans have viewed LeVar Burton’s livestream readings of the book during the pandemic. Most astonishingly, this book was sent on a rocket to the International Space Station in 2015 and read aloud by US Astronaut Kate Rubins as part of the innovative Storytime from Space program – sending a truly global message of hope and healing for children experiencing trauma and stormy emotions in their lives.
Orphan Florin has grown up in the city, where he lives with a kind old lady called Elvira Schirra. He’s never been to school or joined any sports clubs. Nobody knows he exists. He doesn’t have a birth certificate or a passport, let alone health insurance, and he doesn’t even have a surname. When Elvira disappears unnoticed – just as he himself came into the world unnoticed – twelve-year-old Florin roams the city alone. But this doesn’t go unnoticed for long. Finally he escapes to the countryside and is taken in by a real family. He goes to school and starts making friends. But then something incredible happens during an extraordinary meteor shower. Ever since that day, Florin and his friends have been keeping a big secret. It is not until Florin is an old man lying on his deathbed that he tells his extraordinary life story and reveals his secret to an old people’s nurse called Mila. He asks her to take care of an ancient rhinoceros. But is his story true? An exciting novel for young people, with a sprinkling of magic, about the power of deeply held desires, the power of love, and the difficult path to self-discovery. Some meetings are only brief, but make a deep impression that lasts a lifetime. These are the moments of true magic. Extraordinary people never live ordinary lives.
With John (South African nature docent) as the main line, the readers are led to track the five big beasts in Africa, including African lion, African elephant, African buffalo, rhino and leopard. This book uses the advanced AR (augmented reality) interactive technology, downloads a free APP, so that the five overlords in Africa will “jump” out of the book just by scanning with the mobile phone or tablet.
Asian Northeast has been excavating over 75% of all mammoth bones globally. There is a research centre focused on these ancient animals here. Palaeontologists of the Fauna Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) worked to compile this encyclopaedia. This book presents unique contents related to sensational findings of mammoth’s, cave lion’s, woolly rhino’s and other ancient animals’ bones excavated in the northern Siberia. Text bodies go along with illustrations visualizing the animals’ images, as well as with real photos of paleontological findings. The book would be a real catch for those who take interest in the history of the Earth and its ancient inhabitants.
Get ready to spend some time with a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen and a seriously chivalrous tiger... With just two weeks to go before baby Edward's due date, yarn enthusiast Kerry Lord picked up a crochet hook for the first time and a new obsession began. Over the next 12 months the collection of crochet animals expanded week on week until Edward's Menagerie was complete with 40 unique patterns. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques and the step-by-step instructions enable a complete beginner to get hooking straight away. Each animal also has a universal pattern where you can change your hook and yarn to create four different sizes, making 160 different possibilities. Be warned that these unlikely characters made using a supersoft yarn in a sumptuous natural colour palette will become your new best friends as you hook your way through the whole menagerie!
Carlos da Cruz’s Scalebooks are inspiring children’s science books about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb. In Animal Scalebook we encounter the spiky hedgehog, snuffling along the ground, and the giraffe as it reaches for the highest branches of the tree. Along the way we also meet sea blubber, with its hundreds of stinging tentacles, dozens of metres long, and the white rhinoceros, which can run faster than the world’s fastest human!
A South African crime boss institutes divorce proceedings against his wife who defends the action. Later, she is found shot dead in her apartment and the criminal husband charged with her murder. But have the police been too blinkered in their approach and too quick to conclude that the husband's criminal connections automatically make him the killer? So starts a flying trip to New York by the notorious lawyer, Jack Delaney, to investigate the husband's mafia connections followed by a trip to a 'Big 5' Game Reserve in South Africa to investigate his criminal connections in the highly illegal, but lucrative, rhino horn and elephant tusk trade. While this shows the husband to be a most unsavoury character, does it make him a wife murderer? Why would the husband have started divorce proceedings and then killed his wife? If murder was on his mind, would it have not been simpler and cleaner for the wife to take a long, long vacation - mafia style? The murder trial starts and after many twists and turns, the evidence presented often leaves the reader to wonder if the husband was the actual killer or if he hired the killer and colluded with him. The 'grande finale' comes during the trial with the unmasking of the murderer.
Tyson Fury is colossal - six feet nine inches tall and a whisker under 20 stones in weight. He is spectacularly fast. He has a punch that could knock over a rhino and he can dance and weave like no one since the great Muhammad Ali. When he destroyed the fearsome Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas to become two-time world heavyweight champion in February 2020, the world held its breath. Fury was born in 1988 and named after Mike Tyson, who was then the world heavyweight champion. Tyson comes from a long line of gypsy bare knuckle fighters. His father, Gypsy John Fury and grandfather, Tiger Gorman, both fought as professionals. Tyson's success has not come easily, but he has fought the terrible battles of his personal life as bravely as those in the ring. In this extraordinary biography you will read how he overcame addiction to cocaine and alcohol and lost a staggering eight stone in weight to make his comeback. His bravery in talking about his mental health problems is an inspiration to many. Now he is happy and at the top of his game. NIGEL CAWTHORNE is the author of some eighty books - and a major contributor to at least twenty more. He lives in Bloomsbury, London's literary area, and writes in the great British Library, which is supposed to be one of the best pick-up joints in London. However, his reputation is such that people will tell you he is more often seen drinking in Soho's famous bohemian watering hole, the French pub.
The book with a title of Wildlife Medicine and Health Management has been prepared primarily with an idea of satisfying the criteria of the wildlife related syllabus for the veterinary students undertaking their degree programme in various veterinary institutions of this country. However, this book has additional information with regard to the catering of wildlife veterinarians serving in various zoos or wildlife regions of this country as well as in other countries. Different photographs pertaining to the health and disease management in wild fauna have been duly presented in places where they are required and the requirements pertaining to carrying out the therapeutic approaches in wild animals are also concurrently presented. Understanding about the various species of wild animals is the basis for exercising the wildlife medicine at any zoo or zoological park or zoological garden. In this manner, this book has incorporations with regard to the identification of various parasitic fauna in captive wild animals. Various features pertaining to the captive breeding of wild animals, housing and feeding are being dealt in this book, carefully. To name the few special information, the technical features with regard to the management of health and diseases in elephants, reptilian features and clinical examination procedures to be adapted with regard to the aviary species have also been incorporated in this book. Gadgets with regard to the physical as well as the chemical restraint of wild animals that are frequently encountered by the veterinarians in the field condition are also detailed elaborately, in addition to the dose rates of various drugs useful for the chemical control of wild animals. Different sampling procedures including the ones in crocodiles and elephants are presented in a good manner, so that the readers esp. the veterinary students doing their undergraduate degree in veterinary sciences and animal husbandry can understand about this subject in a clarified manner.
When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accide nt. But all is not as it seems. An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles ... but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman? As Kubu and his brilliant young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama, follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino - horn smugglers, foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more dangerous the case seems to grow. A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’, Dying to Live is a classic tale of greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most endearing and humane heroes
