Black Rhino * Smaller than white rhino * Weighs up to 1400kg * Small hooked jaw for feeding on trees and bushes * Keeps head level with body as it is easier to feed of trees * Its natural habitat is in dense vegetation * Female walks in front of calf * Short tempered and aggressive * Very solitary hardly ever joins up with other rhino’s * Grey skin White Rhino * Bigger than black rhino * Weighs up to 3630 kg * Square jaw * Keeps head lower
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The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως‚ which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-‚ "nose") and κέρας (keras‚ "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses’. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd.[3] The five living species fall into three categories. The two African species‚ the White Rhinoceros and the Black Rhinoceros‚ diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago) but the Dicerotini group to which they
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A couple days ago‚ a British pilot named‚ Roger Gower‚ was fatally shot by a group of elephant poachers while he was on an anti-poaching mission in Tanzania. He was part of the Parliament and a conservation fund and was working with the Tanzanian wildlife. When the poachers saw his helicopter‚ they opened fire which wounded Gower. However‚ he passed away before rescuers were able to make it there. Nyalandu‚ the country’s former tourism minister stated that‚ “Capt Roger represented the very best in
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Sociology 180 Journal Assignment 3: Milking the Rhino 1. The benefits and advantages that tourism and conservancies are bringing to the tribal communities‚ Maasai and Himba‚ are: a. With there being more conservancies‚ there is more wildlife and people like wildlife and culture. Conservancies helps increase tourism which ultimately allows more people to come to Africa‚ thus allowing the lodges to produce money which in turn allows them to buy more land for conservancies. The money that
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a) The difference between black and white rhinos Rhinos are grey in colour‚ not black or white as their names suggest. However‚ the major difference is the shape of their mouths. (Thomson Safaris‚ 2010) Black rhinos are browsers‚ using their pointed upper lips to twist off low-growing branches of trees and shrubs. Black rhinos are the fastest kind of rhino with a top speed of 55km/hour‚ they can also grow up to 1‚6m tall and weigh up to 1 400kg. Black rhinos are more likely to be solitary and are shyer
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heterozygosity of the black rhino and white rhino This study was undertaken in order to understand the heterozygosity trends of the white and black rhinos. Genotypes of five microsatellite loci were collected and assessed with the intention of producing data for a sixth locus from the black and white rhino autoradiograph. This method was a means of analyzing the heterozygosity of the two species of rhino. It was established that black rhinos possess significantly more
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Westrick GSW 1120 10/31/16 Do Animal Poaching and Trophy Hunting Have the Same Environmental and Economic Impact? An avid hunter of deer‚ I choose to follow United States hunting laws and regulations for a single seasonal of Ohio deer hunting each year. My personal goal is to provide food for my family‚ a “trophy” deer is bonus not a priority. Poaching and Trophy Hunting are also the hunting of animals however that is where the similarities end. Poaching is the illegal hunting of animals for
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The Paradox of Employee Poaching in India “Some 1.3 million people applied to tech-services giant Infosys Technologies Ltd. in 2006‚ but the company says only 2% of those were employable.” “According to a 2005 McKinsey study‚ only 25 per cent of our engineering graduates‚ 15 per cent of our finance and accounting professionals and 10 per cent of professionals with any kind of degrees‚ in India‚ are suitable for working in multinational companies.” In such a situation what should a company
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wouldn’t understand the strange desire for rhino horn‚ and even more probably don’t know that there is a market for such an item. This is in large part due to the fact that it’s not something you’d expect to be valuable like ivory or gold. It’s just a dirty old animal horn‚ but it’s still quite valuable being worth "more than $4‚500 a pound." In Bryan Christy’s article‚ "Special Investigation: Inside the Deadly Rhino Horn Trade" he discusses the poaching of rhino for their horn‚ how this is being fought
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Anastacia Constantinidis Herro COM 101 10/23/14 Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that hunting and poaching should be more harshly regulated because it will help preserve the many suffering species worldwide. Central Idea: All continents across the globe are facing thousands of endangered species who are unable to help themselves; species which are unfortunately being hunted and poached. Therefore‚ students here at CSN need to understand the devastating statistics and ways in which these
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