Template:Did you know nominations/Indian rhinoceros

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 19:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Indian rhinoceros

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... that the Indian rhinoceros was sent as a gift from Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X in 1515; the rhino later died in a shipwreck and was immortalised as Dürer's Rhinoceros? Source: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/btd/43/1/article-p39_2.pdf
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Created by 20 upper (talk). Self-nominated at 04:50, 13 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Indian rhinoceros; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

GA status is new enough
Article is well presented, and long enough, and the copyvio tool does not show anything of concern
The source quoted to support the hook is reliable
The hook is interesting, containing three separate interesting facts
QPQ exempt
- @Marshelec: This is my first nomination. 20 upper (talk) 22:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

I checked out the very high Earwig score and the first match attributes to Wikipedia, the second is a July 2017 blog which seems to copy elements from the July 2017 version of our article. Bruxton (talk) 19:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)