I've seen a rhino in the wild...once,in Tanzania.A truly majestic...and scary...creature.Sad doesn't begin to describe this event.Ten bucks says it was Chinese interlopers who paid bribes to crooked officials for a mining license and on the weekends hunted game from helicopters.It's in Asia where rhino horns are believed to have medicinal properties after all.Asians are willing to pay serious cash for rhino horns.
I’m remembering a fetching little pygmy rhino girl at the San Diego zoo who cadged a lot of popcorn and bananas from visitors by batting her eyes at us.. Had to have a zookeeper on the scene to prevent visitors from feeding her.
I am one of those people who actually prefer animals to humans. Destruction of wild beasts is a crime against God, who created them all.
Even in zoos, a powerful beast.
It will be a terrible day if all that is left will be a few sickly animals caged.
“...It’s in Asia where rhino horns are believed to have medicinal properties ..”
Sounds a bit backward, for such a “progressive” country.