The difference between woolly rhino horn and modern rhino horn is their role, price and degree of legal protection.
1. Rhino horn has been regarded by our people since ancient times as "the treasure of things and the treasure of the country". It is also an indispensable treasure in the cornucopia of ancient China. Therefore, crafts carved with rhino horns (according to the original shape of the horns, mostly made into "cup"-shaped wine utensils) have a very long history in China. The rhinoceros horn was only discovered in the Great Siberian Glacier in Russia in recent years, and due to its long-term storage in the low temperature environment, the skeleton of the woolly rhino horn is very well preserved.
2, the price is different: the price of the finished product of modern rhino horn is between 200 and 3000 grams, Africa has been strictly prohibited from buying and selling, Asia is more expensive. At present, the finished product of the woolly rhino horn is about 200-500 grams, and there are more than 100 poor finished products.
3. Different legal protections: China has always supported a ban on any rhino product trade, and in 1993, the State Council issued a notice prohibiting trade in rhino horn and tiger bone. Since then, the trade in medicinal herbs and carvings made from rhino horn has been completely banned, and the Ministry of Health has immediately removed the standard for entering rhino horn in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.
However, the woolly rhinoceros horn is a taxable product, as long as it is legally imported, it can be freely traded at home. The Sumatran rhinoceros, the closest relative of the extant rhinos, is still alive in Southeast Asia, but is a critically endangered species on the brink of extinction. The composition of the horn is the same as that of the Sumatran rhinoceros, so it has certain medicinal value.
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The woolly rhinoceros lived during the Pleistocene, the same age as the true mammoth, and survived the Ice Age. It is active in northern Eurasia and lives with its giant rhinoceros plate-toothed rhinoceros, which belongs to the same family as the true rhinoceros family. The woolly rhino was once a hunting object for Paleolithic humans, and its extinction date was only 10,000 years from the 21st century, making it the latest prehistoric rhinoceros to become extinct.
Enjoy some of the authentic furry rhino horns below
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