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Do any animals prey on rhinos?

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Not exactly. Sizes & weights of the rhinos would pose such a dangerous adversary for any carnivore since none of the beasts in their habitat is neither large nor strong enough to overpower them, not to mention the tough skin layer & rigid muscle tissue supporting such huge body structure. And though many have labelled the most basic function of their horns as a means for protection, the fact that many de-horned rhinos roam their terrains without being attacked nor preyed upon by any surrounding animals, carnivorous nor otherwise, clearly indicates that rhinos neither need nor depend on the horn for protection against any predators, and any rare isolated incidents of such an occurrence would be no more than a strange & unusual exception more likely resulting from extreme conditions in no way typical of natural wildlife.

Nevertheless, if rhinos have a need for protectionagainst a deadly predator, it would only need it against human ( or rather 'inhumane') poachers who kill them for their hornswhich they sell more often than not relying on consumers' false convictions of certain medicinal products & ornamental objects having exotic or exceptional uses when extracted from or carved out of rhino horns, none of which has ever been scientifically confirmed as containing such inherently beneficial qualities relative of any human needs in any field by any modern officially-certified, scholarly-acknowledged, integritously-validated Authority outside the realms of traditional folklore & superstitious beliefs. This reality, by logical deduction, would make human poachers as well as consumers of rhino horn materials thus threatening their continuous survival to this day the single one and only actual deadly predator that rhinos have ever had to suffer or fear since the rise of human civilization till the present time.

In conclusion, it would effectively prevent their extinction if all products originating from their helpless beautiful bodies are not purchased nor used and are all together substituted by any other products or goods that are harmlessly produced or acquired while educating the world on the necessity to stop such practices which would inevitably disrupt the natural balance of life on Earth, the far reaching ramifications of which the limits are dangerously uncertain against the interest of all form of life since all are bound to be eventually effected from such major disruption at one point or an other. On a last note: Let us humans NOT be the animals who prey on rhinos since the rest of the Animal Kingdom unanimously saw fit to allow them to live in peace un-preyed upon! Answered by: Bandar Al-Qahtani ( A.K.A. Jocktanian Wolf)

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