Sentences with phrase «of rhino»

The Edifier Spinnaker E30 ($ 255, shown on red above) has one of the most exotic designs we've seen on desktop speakers, resembling a pair of rhino horns, available in striking red or black.

«In the case of the rhino, you don't do it because you're sure that you will succeed, but you do it because you feel it's the right thing to do.»

We also have scientists tickling animals to research laughter, the world's first hybrid sharks, the tragic rise of rhino poaching in South Africa, architecturally designed cat houses, an abusive turkey facility raided, and more in the Week in Animals News.

The report shows that the situation is most dire in Zimbabwe, where rhino populations are decreasing rapidly and only three percent of rhino poaching cases end in conviction.

We would like to know what China is doing with all the live rhinos it is importing from South Africa but the increased reports of rhino poaching, particularly in South Africa and Zimbabwe, are very worrying too.

While examining the body of the rhino the police heard gunshots and used their helicopter to search the area.

The only solution is cutting off the source — educating would - be buyers about the medicinal uselessness and ecological danger of rhino horns.

Rhino poaching has become a growing problem for the reserve with the soaring price of rhino horn and 190 - man security team has been unable to effectively patrol the sprawling area with increasingly aggressive poachers.

The IUCN Red List categorizes three of the five species of rhino — the black, the Javan, and the Sumatran — as Critically Endangered.

Likewise, rhinos are being slaughtered at record levels (more than three per day), yet South Africa is promoting the legalization of rhino trade.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

It seems that in addition to impeccable scientific credentials, climate researchers must now also possess the hide of a rhino in order to endure public attacks like this, from the likes of Borelli.

While it seems as though these appalling figures and the wide - spread discrediting of rhino horns as medicine seems to have done little to curb the slaughter, those working to save Thandi and Themba hope the animals» needlessly marred faces will help stir greater involvement towards the conservation of their species.

In a recent Safaritalk article, a retired practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine described the horn's allure this way: «The character of rhino horn is very cool and is used for curing the heat.

This clandestine trade so depleted the numbers of rhino that the Zimbabwean government had ordered its rangers and safari guides to shoot armed poachers on sight in the national parks.

Even the stub horn of a rhino calf was worth more than a Zambian farmer could make in 10 years of scratching in the dirt.

The last extensive survey of possible rhino range in the last known range state, Cameroon in 2006, failed to find any rhino or signs of rhino (dung, spoor or signs of feeding) but did find evidence of widespread wildlife poaching and local rhino monitors faking rhino spoor in the absence of any surviving rhino.

Independent Contemporary art Project, opens new exhibition Continuing the series urbanities, which reaches its third edition, Kunsthalle St. Paul invites the artist Otavio Cury (* 1971 in São Paulo), to present his first solo exhibition, «Death of a rhino».

Well, I say a karting game, but it actually wasn't: instead of racing Mario Kart style vehicles, the game stuck to Bomberman canon and had you racing Louies and Tirras (which are sort of rhino things).

The level design is purely amazing, it ranges from normal platforming, swinging from vines, minecarts, underwater levels, rocket barrels and even riding on the back of a rhino.

The gameplay remains the same so you can expect the same high expectation as portrayed in the Wii title, whether it's swinging from vine to vine, blasting out of barrels, rampaging through obstacles on the back of a rhino, speeding down tracks on mine carts or rocketing on a rocket barrel away from a giant gorilla / chimp eating bat, there is always that fun aspect in every moment and level of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.

During his time with the game he manages to piss of a rhino, get attacked by a bird, savaged by dogs and assaulted by a tiger.

Day 3 Half - day game drive with a naturalist at Solio Ranch, founded in 1970 as a privately owned wildlife conservancy dedicated to conservation especially of the rhino.

Nature fans should also head south to the Royal Chitwan National Park, to comb the grasslands and forests in search of rhino and tiger.

Most of these include optional audio commentary by Ridley Scott, and some also include accompanying featurettes or other contextualizing material («Rhino Fight,» for example, includes CGI test footage of the rhino).

The level design is purely amazing, it ranges from normal platforming, swinging from vines, minecarts, underwater levels, rocket barrels and even riding on the back of a rhino.

If she is ever to reproduce, she will need Thomas Hildebrandt and his veterinary team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin to rescue her womb — and then push the boundaries of rhino assisted - reproduction to new extremes.

It is a stinging irony that by far the biggest donor to BORA is the Sime Darby Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Sime Darby Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, one of the world's biggest producers of palm oil, the crop that led to the destruction of much of the rhino's rainforest home.

If you thought dinosaurs were the coolest creatures to walk the earth, lock eyes with a life - size model of the largest land mammal that ever lived: Indricotherium, a relative of the rhino, which stood up to 18 feet at the shoulder and had four times the heft of an elephant.

«Scientific evaluation of rhino diets improves zoo: Study highlights success of changing diet for reproduction in endangered species.»

The researchers used mathematical models to reconstruct the decline of the rhino population in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR) in the Malayan state Sabah of Borneo.

The decline of the rhino population in Sabah has been documented in detail for the first time in this new study.

«It's certainly difficult to explain the presence of the horns, and that of a rhino skull, without invoking the agency of Neanderthals,» he said.

Not everyone is sold on the value of a rhino database.

Paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a species of rhino that came equipped with a built - in snow shovel on its face

About 300,000 years ago, herds of rhino - sized creatures migrated across the floodplains of east - central Australia, mimicking the treks that zebras and antelopes make across Africa's Serengeti today.

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

But today, Africa's rhinos once again are facing extinction, despite a 1977 ban on the selling of rhino parts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.

Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal horns.

The skull of a rhino poached in Sumatra in 2005, on display at the rhino protection unit headquarters just outside Way Kambas National Park, is a testament to the brutality of poaching.

Few exclamations suggest more terrifying African sights than those shown in these rare pictures of the infuriated charge of a rhino

Heavy rain kept us from penetrating deep into the surrounding Lorogi Forest, so we had no chance to check for signs of rhino or elephant.

«Leopard - skin coats, ivory gewgaws and the Chinese belief in the medicinal properties of rhino horn.

fred There are many millions of people who «witness» to such things as ghosts, fairies, reincarnation, UFO abduction, bigfoot, the medicinal powers of rhino horn, magic crystals, horoscopes, lucky charms, lucky numbers, and dozens of other things.

Then came a story out of Zimbabwe about how the false belief in the cancer - curing properties of rhino horns has led rhino poaching to a record high.

The Rhinos Rugby Academy is the elite youth rugby program of the Rhinos Rugby Crash (rhinosrugbycrash.com).

In South Africa and Namibia, a strong conservation ethic — coupled with financial incentives for ownership, management and protection of rhinos for tourism and legal trophy hunting — gradually helped to reduce poaching and restore rhino numbers.

The 2014 total is widely expected to exceed 2013, when a record number of rhinos were poached.

Here, the scientists analysed data collected over a span of 13 years and identified the characteristics describing the preferred habitat of the rhinos.