Elephants and rhinoceroses, for example, are too powerful to be molested when grown, except in the rarest cases, and are furthermore thoroughly capable of protecting their young.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
All that I can positively say is that if I were a bird I would ask nothing better than to frequent the cypresses of that garden and tune my numbers for the entertainment of the audience of extraordinary monsters in the aisles below, which bea'in plinths of clipped privet and end marble heads of horses, bulls, elephants, rhinoceroses, and their like.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
All the fossil bats, again, were true bats: and so with the rhinoceroses and the elephants.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell