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What do rhinos use their horns for

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Main use of a rhinoceros horn

The main use is posturing but also for several behavioural functions, including defending territories, defending calves from other rhinos and predators, maternal care (including guiding calves) and foraging behaviour, such as digging for water and breaking branches.

Female rhinoceroses use their horns to steer their young and guide them until they are capable of navigating on their own. Male rhinoceros sometimes use their horns to move their excrement into piles that demarcate the border of their territory. 

This rhino has not got a horn anymore and is from the Munich zoo.

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On Your Knees For Jesus

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This is a statue in Porto, Portugal.
I know it’s odd, but the Catholic suffering paradigm is sometimes hard to understand.

Redemptive suffering

Redemptive suffering is the Christian belief that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with the Passion of Jesus, can remit the just punishment for one’s sins or for the sins of another, or for the other physical or spiritual needs of oneself or another. Like an indulgence, redemptive suffering does not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God’s grace, freely given through Christ, which cannot be earned. After one’s sins are forgiven, the individual’s suffering can reduce the penalty due for sin.

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Exhaustion in the Cliffs

We are London

We Are London II

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Taken at London Notting Hill Carnival.

Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s biggest street festival. The celebrations happen every August bank holiday weekend. See the colourful carnival parade passing through the streets of west London.

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Things you find on the Beach

Scary Spiders Pictures UK


Self Potrait London Octoberfest

Victor Noir Paris Cemetery

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Victor Noir, (27 July 1848 in Attigny, Vosges – 11 January 1870 in Paris), was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. His tomb in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris later became a fertility symbol.

Victor Noir’s statue is eroding… because women can’t stop rubbing its ‘lucky penis’: Visitors ignore calls to stop playing with it because they believe it boosts fertility

A statue of a prominent 19th century French journalist is eroding in Paris.

Victor Noir was shot dead by a great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon in 1870.

Thousands of women have touched his crotch and kissed his lips for luck.

The bronze statue has notably discolored in these areas over the years.

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