National Geographic: The Rhino War Page #3
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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.
its prehensile
lip to tear off the leaves of
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.
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,
But since it is both curious
and nearsighted,
it may be enticed from the
bush, sometimes fatally,
its call.
The first man to devote
his life to the study of
rhino behavior was
John Goddard.
While living in Tanzania's
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.
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
their automatics,
and our people with singly
action 303s it is watch them
and in most cases we lost them,
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