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- Did you ever hear the tragedy of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis? I thought not. It's not a story the rhinos would tell you. S. hundsheimensis was a Plio-Pleistocene rhino, so tolerant and so flexible he could graze and browse without preference.

- He could actually live in open grasslands as well as more dense habitats depending on the site?

- Mesowear analyses are a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be unnatural.

- What happened to him?

- He became so flexible... the only thing he was afraid of was competing with more specialised species which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately around 0,6 million years ago came two young rhinos, named S. hemitoechus and S. kirchbergensis, highly specialised grazer and browser respectively. They made S. hundsheimensis extinct. Ironic. With his generalist feeding strategy he could survive competition against one specialised species, but not two.

I'm not supposed to draw, I have school work to deal with but nooo. That's not very Wise of me.

Description

- Did you ever hear the tragedy of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis? I thought not. It's not a story the rhinos would tell you. S. hundsheimensis was a Plio-Pleistocene rhino, so tolerant and so flexible he could graze and browse without preference.

- He could actually live in open grasslands as well as more dense habitats depending on the site?

- Mesowear analyses are a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be unnatural.

- What happened to him?

- He became so flexible... the only thing he was afraid of was competing with more specialised species which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately around 0,6 million years ago came two young rhinos, named S. hemitoechus and S. kirchbergensis, highly specialised grazer and browser respectively. They made S. hundsheimensis extinct. Ironic. With his generalist feeding strategy he could survive competition against one specialised species, but not two.

I'm not supposed to draw, I have school work to deal with but nooo. That's not very Wise of me.