The Interwebs reports:
Spectators outside the White House received a rare treat this morning when they witnessed First Lady Michelle Obama on the South Lawn going for a stroll with the family’s pet rhinoceros, Chauncey. “Owning a rhino is a lot of work, but all of the Obamas—and especially Michelle—really love Chauncey,” said White House spokesperson Sam Davidson of the 3,000-pound eastern black rhinoceros the family adopted in December after Barack Obama’s reelection promise to “finally get Sasha and Malia that rhino they’ve been wanting.”
For the record, President Calvin Coolidge had a Pygmy Hippopotamus from Liberia named "Billy" (aka William Johnson Hippopotamus) given to him by Harvey Firestone.
Born in the wild in the 1920s, Billy weighed more than 600 pounds and died in 1955, 22 years after Coolidge's own death.
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