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The push-me pull-you rhino; (But before you try talking to it, Dr Dolittle, count the legs).

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060405
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Byline: BETH HALE

STANDING in an English wildlife park, it could be one of Dr Dolittle's animal friends - a unique black rhino with a head at each end.

Perhaps it is distantly related to the pushmi-pullyu, the double-headed jungle creature descended from a gazelle and a unicorn ecountered by the vet in the Hugh Lofting children's books?

Sadly, however, the beast above is not one black rhino but two, photographed standing side by side. The animals were enjoying their first sight of the 100-acre African Experience enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent.

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