National Geographic: The Rhino War Page #3

Year:
1987
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the dealer, keeps business

going briskly.

I will buy for about

$700 per kilo, and sell

for about $1400 per kilogram,

so I make a profit of

about $700.

The diplomats who smuggle

rhino horn come mostly from

Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan,

South Korea.

I saw rhino in Nairobi.

I like it. I like rhino.

Despite the rhino's size

and fierce reputation,

it is sadly easy to track,

find, and kill.

Its thick hide offers

no protection against

bullets and its behavior

patterns are too predictable

to elude the

determined poacher.

In its simple daily routine,

the black rhino uses

its prehensile

lip to tear off the leaves of

the prickly acacia bushes

and other scrubby plants.

A solitary creature,

it lives on a home range

of from one to

twelve square miles.

The rhino's territory may

overlap with another of

its species,

but it is persistent

in marking its range.

The animals spray urine or

track their dung across the

area, and so, spread their scent

Contrary to appearances,

the rhinoceros is a

peaceful being,

and only rarely takes

exception to the

occasional trespasser.

Although it can hear and

smell acutely

its eyesight is poor.

Help comes in the form of the oxpecker

which serves as a

lookout.

In Swahili the oxpecker is known

as "askair wakifaru",

the rhino's policeman.

When alerted by its tiny bodyguard,

the rhino may panic and run.

But since it is both curious

and nearsighted,

it may be enticed from the

bush, sometimes fatally,

by the human voice mimicking

its call.

The first man to devote

his life to the study of

rhino behavior was

John Goddard.

While living in Tanzania's

Ngorongoro crater during the

affection for his lumbering,

primitive subjects.

Goddard was deeply committed

to his work,

regardless of the hazards.

Even a tranquilized rhino

can be dangerous.

Weighing up to one and a half

tons, an adult bull represents

a serious threat.

Dentine joined in

P2 between cusps.

Watch it!

Alright, P3 dentine almost

joined between cusps.

For seven years, Goddard

carried out exhaustive field

work, recording each minute

feature of the rhino's

appearance and behavior.

Sixteen years after Goddard's

own death at the age of 35,

the number of rhino

in his research area

had plummeted from 108 to

about 20.

Many were the victims of

poachers.

In the vast expanse of

East Africa's Savannah,

protection of the rhino

has proved impossible.

Bob Oguya, warden of Kenya's

Meru Park since 1983,

has one plane and 30 men

to patrol 350 square miles.

The problem we are facing is

that these fellows with

their automatics,

and our people with singly

action 303s it is watch them

and in most cases we lost them,

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