For a long time, there have been taboos in the literary play circle of "one red, two black, three white": "one red", crane top red; "two black", rhino horn; "three white", ivory. The literary play made of them looks gorgeous, but behind it is an incomparably ferocious killing.
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A red, crane top red, here refers not to the incurable poison in the TV series or movies, but to the skull of the helmeted hornbill.
Helmeted hornbills, the largest of all the birds of the hornbill family, can reach a length of more than one meter in adult helmeted hornbills, they grow in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, and they like towering trees deep in the deep forest.
During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the helmeted hornbill skull was often used as a tribute by the major feudal states in Southeast Asia. Since people did not know the form of the helmeted hornbill at that time, they called it "crane" after some "association". Like all hornbills, they have a huge protrusion at the top of their beak, hence the name "crane top".
This bright red helmet was originally used to protect his head, and he did not think that because of it, he accidentally embarked on the road of being chased and killed by illegal hunters.
While the skulls of ordinary birds are hollow and cannot be carved, the skulls of helmeted hornbills are solid. The crane top of the male helmeted hornbill is even more red in color and solid in texture, and the name "crane top red" comes from this.
The helmeted hornbilly needed to cut off its skull while the bird was still alive, and the process was astounding.
And because the female helmeted hornbill during breeding, the male helmeted hornbill will seal the hole with mud in order to defend against natural enemies, and the female helmeted hornbill, which has no foraging ability, relies on the male bird to feed. The removal of the skull of a male helmeted hornbill represents the demise of a helmeted hornbill family.
According to some data, after some careful craftsmanship, the value of helmeted hornbills can reach about 10 times that of ivory. What is more impressive is that at the Beijing Poly auction in 2012, there was a mobile phone-sized helmet bird ornament, which was estimated at 180,000.
The "valuable" skull has raised the helmeted hornbill protection level from "near-critical" to "extremely dangerous". Endangered to this point, modern people are still at the expense of high prices, deeply fascinated by the carvings made of its skull.
The human figures carved on the skulls of helmeted hornbills and animals laughing and crying on them are helpless.
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Two black, rhino horns, i.e. rhino horns. It grows out of the skin.
In Africa, there are two species of rhinos, white rhinos and black rhinos. According to the data, the price of African rhino horn has been speculated to 650 to 1000 yuan / gram. Because rhino horn is mistakenly considered by some people as a symbol of status and status, even if the price is more expensive than gold, rhino horn in the international market is still "in short supply", and the market has soared!
Most of the rhino horns circulating on the market today come from black rhinos from Africa.
It has to be mentioned that at the beginning of the 20th century, the black rhino was the most abundant of all rhinos in the world, with a population of nearly 80,000. In the second half of the 20th century, black rhinos were heavily hunted by humans, and by 1990 there were fewer than 2,000 black rhinos in the wild.
In Tanzania, for example, from 1981 to 1987, in just 6 years, the local black rhino population has dropped from 3,000 to 100, and about 95% of the rhinos have fallen under the aim of human shotguns, followed by the destruction of rhino faces and the fate of the end of their lives...
Species are facing endangerment at a time when humans are on the precipice. In 2012, the IUCN added black rhinos to the Red List of Threatened Species and labeled them as critically endangered.
However, greedy poachers did not slow down the speed of chasing money. On the contrary, today's desire for profit is still expanding, and there are still many criminals in Africa who are desperate to take risks. This makes the already overwhelmed black rhino population even worse!
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As an animal with almost no natural enemies in the wild, it still can't escape the harm of humans!
Since ancient times, ivory has a very noble meaning in china. In ancient times, craftsmen used ivory to make fans, ivory carvings, combs and other objects; in recent years, ivory has been used to make piano keys, billiards and so on.
As the largest African elephant in the extant elephant family, its teeth are also larger than other elephants. Market demand has led to the killing of African elephants. In the eight years between 1979 and 1987, poaching led to a sharp drop in the number of African elephants from 1.3 million to 600,000. You may think: Isn't there still 700,000 heads left, and there are still many African elephants, so worried is not "unfounded"?
But did you know that in 1800, there were 26 million elephants on the continent alone, and by the beginning of the 21st century, there were fewer than 400,000 elephants on the continent?
In order to remove two of the elephant's teeth, poachers can be described as unscrupulous. If at this rate, if it is not protected, it will be out of control, and perhaps our children and grandchildren will really only be able to see African elephants on pictures and videos.
Helmeted hornbill skulls, ivory, rhino horns, are all prohibited items in international trade, as the collection heats up, driven by profits, criminals are still flocking to them, and their related underground trade activities have been repeatedly prohibited.
Just as the fins of sharks are hunted by humans under the name of "rich nutritional value", the "one red, two black, three white" text play is chilling.
In fact, the main components of helmeted hornbills, rhino horns and ivory are keratin. What does keratin come from? It is the key structural material that makes up the outer layer of our human hair, nails, and skin. It is also funny to say that keratin grows on our own body and is not attractive; it grows on animals, but it leads to the disaster of killing, which is really ridiculous!
How cruel can humans be for the sake of money? Even the blue kingfisher, a smaller animal, has been targeted, slaughtered and endangered by us humans because of its unique luster and rich layering of color. They were taken off alive by us humans to remove 28 feathers from their bodies in order to achieve a crown of "diancui".
Speaking of this, the inspector could not help but sigh: remember the day of harmonious coexistence, but go for the sake of profit and money. When the dark fear incense disappeared, the tears were not regretted.