Scientists busy? No, some researchers are really idle, so there is a "funny Nobel Prize" award, such as a study "the posture of airlifting rhinos by helicopter (the best posture to transport rhinos by helicopter)" won this year's transportation award!
The IgNobel Prizes are mostly funny parodies of the Nobel Prizes, hosted by the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), but some of the judges are real Nobel laureates, and the purpose is to select "research."
This year's Funny Nobel Prize in transportation won the prize for research on the best posture of transporting rhinos by helicopter, which at first glance is very funny, and scientists say that it is mainly to better protect endangered black rhinos.
How does this study relate to the protection of black rhinos? Let's find out together, it will always be related!
Namibia, located in southern Africa, was originally the most comfortable habitat for black rhinos, but due to human activities, the black rhino habitat has become chaotic, one piece to the east and one piece to the west, which has caused the communication isolation of black rhino groups, which has led to the intensification of inbreeding of black rhinos.
As a result, animal protectors and researchers often need to move black rhinos, adult black rhinos are about 3-3.75 meters long and weigh 800-1400 kg, so it is not easy for such a behemoth to rely on humans to move away, and the local terrain is rugged and not suitable for land car transportation, so it can only be transported by air.
Obviously, the animals' habitat large transport aircraft can not land at all, so that the good idea of the black rhino lying comfortably on the plane to move away is shattered, only the helicopter with convenient take-off and landing can do it, and it is obvious that the black rhino can only be hoisted to move.
Black rhinos are generally injected with sedatives before transportation to prevent black rhinos from shaking in the air and causing the death of the machine, and different hanging positions are closely related to the health of black rhinos, so there is a study on the best posture for transporting rhinos by helicopter.
Rhinos are injected with sedatives and will have a series of dangerous adverse reactions such as insufficient blood oxygen and insufficient lung ventilation, and different lifting positions will affect the severity of adverse reactions in rhinos.
The researchers simulated helicopters with cranes to test 6 four-legged rhinos and 6 flat-lying rhinos respectively, and the results showed that all rhinos had symptoms of hypoxyxia and excessive blood carbonation, but the four-legged rhinoceros did not suffer significant damage to their lungs, and the situation was slightly better, so it was concluded that four-legged rhinos were the best posture for transporting rhinos!
The four-legged posture may not be aesthetically pleasing and does not take into account the face of black rhinos, but it is the most suitable way to transport rhinos at present.
Just like the criteria for the Hilarious Nobel Prize: it looks funny at first glance, and then it is thought-provoking.
Scientists also do not want to bother to study the funny rhino transport posture, human activities on the survival of some animals more and more impact is increasingly endangered, scientists have no choice but to minimize the damage when maintaining animals through their own ability, look at this funny but bitter!
The image comes from the Internet.