CHESTER ZOO - RHINO RANGERS PROJECT - Autumn 2014

An 11 school Art/Literacy Chester Zoo project where the pupils were taken to meet the Rhino keepers and through becoming Rangers studied these endangered animals.

The Art work focussed on drawing the Black Rhino and sharing the story - Why does Rhino scatter his dung?

According to African myth, Elephant met Rhino on the plains and regularly bullied him about his eyesight, weight and smell. Rhino challenged Elephant to a contest. Who could make the most dung in a day!!! Elephant, thinking himself so superior, took up the challenge and walked miles eating the leaves from the scattered trees. Rhino stayed where he was, chomping at the luxurious grasses (it had just rained!!). At the end of the day, Elephant's dung was spread out so far he could not find it, but Rhino's dung lay in one big, enormous pile!!!!
Elephant lost his temper and gored Rhino very badly. So badly that he lay in the water hole for days - recovering and thinking. When he was better, (Porcupine helped him, but that's another story) Rhino crept to his dung and spread it everywhere so that Elephant would not be jealous. 

So to this day, it is believed that Rhinos spread their dung in case Elephants become angry.

Which Rhino do you like below?