Rhinoceroses

The rhino is a homely beast

The rhinoceros or rhino is a large mammal noted for its horn.

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• If ever you meet a rhinoceros
  And a tree be in sight,
  Climb quick! for his might
  Is a match for the gods: he could toss Eros!
  • Robert Browning, The Rhinoceros
  • Written impromptu when challenged to find a rhyme for "rhinoceros" [1]

• Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight.
  • Lewis Carroll, A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) edited by Evelyn M. Hatch, Letter to Gaynor Simpson (27 December 1873), p.91

• Pity the poor old rhino with
  A bodger on its bonce.
  • Michael Flanders, The Rhinoceros

• The rhino is a homely beast,
  For human eyes he's not a feast.
  Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
  I'll stare at something less prepoceros.
  • Ogden Nash, The Rhinoceros