Cacareco
Sign in to savethumb|right|The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo Cacareco (1954–1962) was a female black rhinoceros exhibited in Brazilian zoos. She is known for receiving many votes in the 1959 São Paulo city council elections as a form of protest vote. Electoral officials did not accept Cacareco's candidacy, but she eventually won 100,000 votes, more than any other party in that same election (which was also marked by rampant absenteeism).
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- Gender
- female organism
- Occupation
- write-in candidate
- Country
- Brazil
- Image
- São Paulo Zoo 2018 046.jpg
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- date of death
- 1962-11-27
- date of birth
- 1954-02-14
- individual of taxon
- Diceros bicornis
- Commons category
- Cacareco
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thumb|right|The skull of Cacareco at São Paulo Zoo Cacareco (1954–1962) was a female black rhinoceros exhibited in Brazilian zoos. She is known for receiving many votes in the 1959 São Paulo city council elections as a form of protest vote. Electoral officials did not accept Cacareco's candidacy, but she eventually won 100,000 votes, more than any other party in that same election (which was also marked by rampant absenteeism).
Cacareco's candidacy inspired the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, nominally led by the rhinoceros Cornelius the First.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cacareco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.