Transcription: One of the things that people who don't know anything about white rhinoceroses find most interesting about them is their colour. It isn't white. Not even remotely. It's a rather handsome dark grey. Not even a sort of pale grey that might arguably pass us off white, just plain dark grey. People therefore assume that zoologists are either perverse or colourblind, but it's not that, it's that they're illiterate. White is a mistranslation of the Afrikaans word, veit, meaning wide, and it refers to the animal's mouth, which is wider than that of the black rhino. By one of those lucky chances, the w ...
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