INT: Hello, and welcome to my column. Today, we have the opportunity to talk to famous animal prospector Franz Spans. He is reknowned around many international researching circles. Today he is here to discuss with us his current project, which he is at work . So Franz, what is your current work?

PRO: Good day fine sir! Today I am here to tell you about my work for the past 6 years. I have been searching for the elusive pink rhino! I fear it is endangered, as nobody to date no such animal has been seen by me!

INT: So prospector, why haven't you been able to find the pink rhino?

PRO: AAAH zee pink rhino, I have not found it yet. Eeet must be very elusive as I have not zeen it and I have been looking for many years now. I recall my good mentor, Herr Doktor sent me on my quest. My eternal gratitude Doktor, for my worthy quest! He ees always a good source of help. My colleegues laugh whenever I ask for help tho, but it ees no laughing matter! If I have not found this species yet it must be endangered and should be protected by all available means!

INT: So prospector, what does this elusive rhino look like?

PRO: Weeel, from reports, it sounds like this elusive creature only comes out under cover of dark, or when intoxicated. It must be veery small as it likes to hide in the bushes, and believe me, I have checked a lot of bushes! Thees rhino must like really big bushes to hide in as no rhino can hide in anything you would call a bush! It must have zee great method of camoflauge to elude such a great prospector as myself!
It also has some strange physiology. Did you know that eet only has one eye? Eet also has two strange round stump like appendages to do zee walking around! Facinating creature! Eeet has a self defence mechanism, so when eet thinks eet is in danger, eet swells up to intimidate the foe, and zome strange sticky white fluid sprays out of eets eye! Zees fluid traps and effectively disables both zee predator and zee prey equally! No other creature has such a mechanism! If I could be covered in zuch fluid I would be happy for all of zee life! Zee normal rhinos also have zee horn, which zee pink rhino does not. Zee Herr Doktor inseests that it does have a horn, though based on zee pictures, I have no idea as to where eet would be!
About what it consumes, it likes to eats the ripe lushious red berries off the bushes eet hides in. Just this can not consist of a full and proper diet for such a wondrous creature however, it will need other nourishment. It obtains this blood by drinking blood like a vampire! Thees ees another reason I must find eet, as it is a danger to human life. Maybe it can reproduce, or perhaps there ees a bunch of them already waiting in hiding for zee helpless passerby to drink their blood (and raid their bushes for berries)! One should also be careful around one if you see one, as they are capable of calling lightning down from the sky, making you blind as an NHL referee, or making you hairy as a sasquatch, just like that! On a whim! Thees must be a wondrous creature indeed to be capable of all this. I cannot wait to get my hands on eet! For zee greater good and for zee further scientific study of course...

INT:Prospector, I think your friends are taking you for a ride...

PRO: NO NONOOO!! I am a professional! I have been looking for this rhino for many years now! They would have told me if it was extinct!

INT:(cough) Here, let me show you your rhino...

PRO: Wait, thees is no rhino. It is far too small! The resemblance is remarkable however...
Put it back in your pants or zees interview is over! I have no wish to see such things! Now let us talk about zee rhino, and I will forget that you deed such a thing. Imagine that! Having the gall to wave that thing in front of a reknowned prospector like meeself! What kind of a professional are you? Some kind of pervert I would gather. Yes, I have no problem zeeing somebody like you going home and kicking zee little puppies for zee fun. You are a sick, sick man.

So, do you have anything else that you would like to ask me?

INT: No, I think that's just about it, nice having you .

An Artist's Interpretation of the Pink Rhino

Another Artist's Interpretation of the Pink Rhino