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Riaan sent me this photo of the heart from a white rhino. Anyone care to guess how much it weighs? -Steve -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | ||
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Steve, Could only take a wild guess. 38 pounds bobga | |||
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27 pounds ~Ann | |||
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23 pounds. Global Sportsmen Outfitters, LLC Bob Cunningham 404-802-2500 | |||
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Nope. Nope. Nope. I'll 'weight' for a few more guesses before giving any hints. -Steve -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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186 - the whole package, heart and tracker. "When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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18.5 lbs Hog Killer IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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17 lbs? Lance Lance Larson Studio lancelarsonstudio.com | |||
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31 lbs. mike | |||
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28 pounds. Time is but the stream I go a'fishing on | |||
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23 and a half lbs.* *Includes onions and a nice brown sauce. ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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36 pounds and I bet thge damn thing only beat about 3 times per minute... | |||
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35? | |||
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53.72 lbs. ****************************** There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular -- but one must ask, "Is it right?" Martin Luther King, Jr. | |||
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41 sorry about the spelling, I missed that class. | |||
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That sure is the smallest mature and adult-looking skinner I've ever seen! Those who know: Is a Black Rhino heart weight-for-weight more or less the same as typical other large animals? I know that the true "away runners" (e.g. Red Hartebeest) have a proportionally bigger heart than a similar-sized "hider" (e.g.Nyala). But where does a black rhino heart size fit into the greater scheme of things? In good hunting. Andrew McLaren | |||
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Dang! Alf beat me to the post. I teach this stuff in my university courses and before I got to the bottom and saw Alf's post I thought I would have good use of this knowledge on AR. Heart mass, rate (and many other morphological aspects) are remarkably well-predicted by body mass. Anybody interested should do a quick search (perhaps on Amazon.com) for Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and his books on how animals work, scaling and animals size. John | |||
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Well, So far you are all high. But a couple of you all came close. The weight was measured on a scale in the skinning shed. Riaan said that it might be off by a 100 grams or so. Keep'em coming... -Steve -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Average weight of black rhino (700 to 1400 kg) = 1050 kg, according to my _The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals_. But this must be a big one: 1400 kg? Heart weight therefore: .0058 x 1400kg = 8.12 kg, emptied of blood. 8120 grams or about 17.9 lbs??? Nope, as Riodot guesses 17 lbs and that is still too high ... photography can sure make a bag of muscle look heavy ... My SWAG: 16 pounds = 7264 grams? How close do we have to get before the answer will be revealed? | |||
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Bingo! We have a winner! Rip with a guess of 16.0. Riaan told me it weighed 7.3 Kg or 16.094 lbs. I would like to send you on a safari of your choice, but alas I already spent the prize winnings on my own safari. You'll have to settle for the high praise and admiration of your peers. -Steve -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Close enough, eh? So that black rhino weighed about 1260 kg (or 2775 lbs) on the hoof. | |||
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Definitely sub 'minute of rhino'. We'll have to wait for Riaan's comments on the actual animals size. -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Oops, careless of me, after reading 17 lbs was too large, I did a mental flipflop to thinking of the smaller black rhino and it paid off. So it was a smallish white rhino? Kingdon gives the weight ranges by sex for the white rhino: Female: 1400 to 2000 kg Male: 2000 to 3600 kg | |||
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Went back and quadruple checked my e-mail and it said white rhino. Again, not sure about it's size. They are big beasts. Especially when you're a few yards away and they're getting irritated that you're there. -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Typo? I get the drift. | |||
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Shouldn't there be a bullet hole in that heart somewhere? | |||
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Pete, See where the aorta, vena cava, and pulmonary arteries and veins are chopped off? The bullet did that. Must have been one or more adequate shots anyway. | |||
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