The Forsyth Park Fountain, as originally designed and installed, incorporates four spouting Triton figures carrying shell horns (representing the mythological Greek messenger of the sea, half man and half fish).
Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
Side View of Figure Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
Another View of Figure Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
A closer view of a rhino in the North Carolina Zoo almost looks at you. The horns are menacing!
Rhino Looking at You
Baby Rhino Closeup
White rhinos are the second-largest land mammal, behind only elephants. Their name comes from the Afrikaans, a West Germanic language, word “weit,” which means wide and refers to the animal’s mouth. Most (98.8%) of the southern white rhinos occur in just four countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya.
The Watani Grassland Habitat at the North Carolina Zoo has a spacious area of grass where large rhinos are free to graze on the plants that cover the 40-acre habitat. Rhino horn is made of compressed, fibrous hair made of keratin – the same protein human hair and fingernails are made of. Rhinos reach speeds of 30 mph for short bursts.
Southern White Rhinoceros
Southern White Rhinoceros Closeup
Southern White Rhino
Blue Bull, the other name of the Nilgai is one of the most commonly found wild animals in Gir National Park. Although it is an antelope it looks more or less like an ox. The Indian Blue Bull antelope grows to a length for 1.8 to 2 meters; it weighs nearly one hundred twenty to two hundred and forty kilograms. On the top of the long and narrow head a nilgai has two conical horns. The horns are straight and slightly tilted.
The eyes and horns of these bullocks seem to be intertwined at a rural farm in India
Eyes of the Bullocks