Tanzania; Serengeti National Park Animal Kingdom serial text ~ Rhinoceros
The black rhino is one of the rare animals in the world. The number of wild black rhinos is only about 3600. Even, in July 2006, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared that the western black rhino, a subspecies of the black rhino, had been extinct.
Even in the Moru Hills of the Serengeti Black Rhino Sanctuary, encountering black rhinos is no easy task.
Although there are many reasons for the decrease in their individual numbers, the most important thing is poaching. Before the worldwide rhino protection policy was implemented, rhino horn was an aphrodisiac tonic for Asians and the material of choice for middle Easterners, so rhinos became a poaching target.
Coupled with the fact that rhinos who like to move alone have poor eyesight and cannot be detected even if someone is close to ten meters, this also invisibly reduces the chance of mating. However, artificial breeding methods also encountered difficult problems, because rhinos are too strong in physique, and it takes a lot of money to anesthetize or carry rhinos, so it helps rhinos.
Mating once or twice a year is also a difficult thing to do. Male rhinos rely mainly on their sense of smell to identify the feces of female rhinos and then find females to mate. If there is more than one male rhino on the scene, in order to compete for mating rights, there will be a duel between the male rhinos.
The duel between two male rhinos weighing more than a ton is really unbearable because they have poor eyesight and cannot avoid each other's reckless collisions, and as a result, whoever loses or loses will be stabbed by the rhino horn and lose both.
The invincible rhinoceros in the African savannah will also lose their lives because of love.
Rhinos not only have poor eyesight but also have a short temper. As long as it encounters a strange object, it will desperately rush past it. Even if it approaches a rhino in order to heal a wound, it will attack at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. It's so hard to get close to the rhino.
Even small wounds become more and more serious because they are not treated, and deaths occur from time to time. Most animals will fight for females, but will reach some degree of compromise. That is, after appropriate competition, appropriate actions and appropriate compromises, the final party that thinks it is inferior will voluntarily withdraw from the competition. But rhinos can die for love. Because rhinoceros has the so-called "blind view of love" that "life is precious, love is more expensive, if it is for love, life can also be thrown away".
Images taken from the Internet; the article is borrowed from gloryon (wild poisoning