Essay On Rhino

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The huge size of a rhino can be very deceiving, a male weighing up to 1350kg & female 900kg. The skin of a black rhino is no different than a white, all a dark grey color. Rhino's are found worldwide mostly in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe but even there there's a very minimal amount of them left. Their food consists of trees, bushes & shrubs. The animal has a very poor eyesight making it only able to see up to 9 meters, but has acute senses of hearing & smell. The 2 horns of a Rhino is what everyone's after. The horn grows from their skin (made of keratin fibers, like human fingernails), which the animal uses to dig the ground for mineral, salt and defend its territory. In the 5th century B.C a Rhino's horn, skin, urine and blood were very important elements in Chinese medicines for reducing fever, headache and more. Asians used this way of medicine for thousands of years. In Borneo, people even hanged rhino tails in a room where a woman …show more content…

It was a big symbol of wealth, only a few men could afford it, but when there was a worldwide oil shortage, prices for it increased and a sevenfold increase happened in Yemen making a rhino's horn in the reach for almost everyone & Yemen the largest importer of rhino horns. The two horns from a single black rhino would sell as high as 50,000 dollars in the market, which made it impossible for farmers and herders to resist especially because of how easy it was to get access to them back then. * Rhino's have been under 24-hour guard but that doesn't mean people can't get their hands on them. In 2009, 5 men broke into a zoo, held 5 security guards and took off with 10kg of rhino horns. Also in 2009 an auctioneer in the UK stole a buyers rhino horn and sold it to dealers in the East. * 2010- police in an airport in Ireland found 10 rhino horns on a

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