Were rhinos used in war?

Were rhinos used in war?

It is unsubstantiated that rhinoceros were used for war functions. By analyzing Albrecht Dürer’s famous 1515 woodcut, it is possible that the liberties taken with the rhino’s design were in fact designs for a suit of armour created for the rhinoceros’s fight in Portugal.

Do elephants really eat peanuts?

What’s not well known is that elephants don’t really eat peanuts. While the combination of dark chocolate and salted peanuts can’t miss, elephants themselves tend to go for something a little lighter.

Did elephants used to be bigger?

Some straight-tusked elephants, however, may have reached up to 4.5 metres tall and could have tipped the scales at over 14 tonnes. This would make them possibly the largest land mammal ever to have existed, similar in size to the gigantic giraffe-like rhinos that lived in central Asia around 25 million years ago.