He doesn't know where or what the danger may be, but he knows the C.Q.D.code of danger signals as delivered to him from the outposts on his back and hastens to get busy in an effort to locate the foe.

As a general thing the little birds, on sight of danger, begin a wild chatter, rising from the back of the rhino and flying in an opposite direction from the danger.

Then they return, light on the rhino's back, and repeat, often several times, the operation of flying away from the danger.

If the rhino is a wise rhino he learns from the birds which is the safe way to go and soon trots swiftly off.

In a measure the habits of the rhino bird are as interesting as those of the rhino itself, and as an example of the weak protecting the strong, the Damon and Pythias relationship between bird and beast is without parallel in the animal kingdom.
[Drawing: _Before and After the Rhino Birds Give the Alarm_] The rhino is a peaceful animal.