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As a rhinoceros, you are always alert.  You have to be alert in the jungle.  That’s why cows are not found in the jungle.  They just couldn’t survive.

Your sharp eyes miss nothing and your ears scan the area like radar to detect the slightest noise.  You can feel vibrations through your sensitive feet on the ground and your nose picks up any foreign scents.  Your whole being is on the lookout for an opportunity to charge.  You are like a cocked trigger waiting to be pulled.

Wait!  What is that smell?  Your great body grows tense, ready to spring into action.  You slowly turn your massive head toward the direction of the scent.  Your eyes watch for any signs of a real opportunity.  Your ears pick up a rustling in the brush!  An unfamiliar scent drifts by your nostrils!  You are ready to explode!

Is it an opportunity or a torpedo?  Your eyes stare unblinking straight ahead.  Your head is spinning with excitement and your leg muscles twitch with energy.

Suddenly, you see it!  It is an opportunity!   It sees you and like a shot, you are both off through the jungle – three tons of snorting rhinoceros charging full speed at your opportunity, mowing down all obstacles in your way.  Trees and vegetation poke at your skin, but you don’t even feel it.   Your opportunity is in sight now and you are gaining on it.   It is a good opportunity though and the chase is long and hard.

You start to tire.  Is it getting away from you?  “Darn it!” you bellow.  “I am a rhinoceros!!”

Your second wind comes and your rhinoceros eyes turn fiery red as the breath from your nostrils turns to steam against the cool, morning, jungle air.  Through jungle, river and mountain, you pour it on, never letting up.

Then, all of a sudden, you’ve got it!!  Your opportunity tires and you run it down.  You make the kill and then rest a moment;  your great lungs heaving, your legs ready to collapse, your skin torn, bruised and bloodied, and you bask in the thrill of your victory.

Three tons of snorting rhinoceros charging full speed at your opportunity!

Copyright 2011 by Scott Robert Alexander