Sentences with phrase «use of rhino»

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Also, the dye they would use is similar to the dye used in ink packs to secure money at the bank, and the poison would be one designed to kill parasites, neither of which have negative side effects on the rhino or other animals in its ecosystem.

The rhinos are a herd of Chinese tycoons who have used a combination of political connections and raw ambition to create sprawling global conglomerates.

Here are two more pictures, most probably taken from the cargo door of a C - 2 Greyhound, showing the «Rhinos» (nickname for the Super Hornet used on U.S. supercarriers) over or near USS Stennis.

Europe used the railroad to penetrate the continent in remorseless pursuit of game: lions, leopards, gazelles, rhinos, hippopotami and especially elephants and their precious tusks.

At times during the 3000 - year history of TCM, rhino horn was used to treat infections and was believed to reduce fever.

New uses fuel demand too; think of newly wealthy businessmen in Vietnam consuming rhino horn mixed with water or alcohol to show how rich they are.

The genet might be using this rhino as a movable hunting blind, waiting for mice or insects to run out of the way of the big lumbering beast and then pouncing on them from above.

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.

Chris Wemmer, director of research at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington, has seen mahouts in Nepal stabbing their animals» heads with their ankuses (short spears, with a hook on one side) until they run with blood: «It was especially bad when we used the elephants to round up rhinos to put them into reserves.

That rhino eggs are in short supply needn't be a problem, says Pasqualino Loi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Teramo in Italy, who, more than a decade ago, used domestic sheep as a source of eggs and surrogates to clone an endangered sheep relative, the mouflon.

Faced with this problem, zoo veterinarians felt it was time to make use of IVF and other reproductive technologies to help maintain a breeding population without having to transport rhinos hither and yon.

San Diego Zoo Global has decided to take on the enormous task of using cryopreserved tissue for cross-species cloning to revive the Northern White Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parents.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

The original Jumanji was one of the first movies to sell itself on its use computer generated images — folks lined up in 1995 to see the then - novel spectacle of rhinos rampaging through suburbia.

On a sadder note, the NFL declined to allow the use of any of their logos, resulting in the formation of the fictional AFFA, which includes teams like the Sharks, the Crusaders, the Knights, the Americans, the Rhinos, and other manly man names.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES: Use a world map and have students locate the areas of the world where rhinos live in the wild.

It was a minor matter to get a friend of a friend, who was a stewardess, to use her free hours before her flight took off again from Beef Island to take a cab to the dive shop and pick up a small quantity of the ground herb concoction, which chemical analysis later revealed to be powdered rhino horn (one could well wonder how they got that in Tortola), mixed with something called dried Annie flower, to which was added a generous pinch — as Lowell suspected — of simple ginger.

Lemtongthai was convicted of running a crime syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts as a front to export rhino horn to the black market in Asia.

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.

But since 1993 trade in rhino horn, (as well as tiger parts) was banned by the Chinese government with the aim of stopping the use of endangered wildlife derivatives in TCM: but advocates cling to historical evidence, knowing their ancestors used it, their parents, grandparents: the reason why it continues to be used today by many Chinese families.

Strong property rights and market incentives have provided a successful model for rhino conservation, despite the negative impact of command - and - control approaches that rely on regulations and bans that restrict wildlife use.

Hoping that sperm from one of Indonesia's rhinos can be used to fertilize Malaysia's last remaining female rhino, conservationists have been awaiting permission for the transfer for years.

Without the safari hunting, conservancies would not survive against other land - use pressures, so safari hunting has a crucial indirect, positive impact on the conservation of rhinos and many other rare species such as cheetahs.»

Soon after my meeting with Hanks, in collaboration with Prince Bernhard he used the funds I had been told about to set up a unit of former SAS soldiers in apartheid South Africa to track down ivory and rhino horn poachers and traders in neighbouring countries.

Nguyen Khanh Toan, the deputy head of the Vietnamese government office, who used his diplomatic immunity to smuggle rhino horns out of Africa and was later caught with 10 envelopes of cash at Hanoi airport to buy rhino horns for «friends and colleagues.»

Tough on the order of trying to use soothing words to stop a charging rhino.

The conservancy will use the drones to track the movements of all of its 110 rhinos each day and hope to expand the drone program as well as start using even more technology like unique radio frequency ID tags for each of the rhinos and other endangered animals in the park in the near future.

Elephant ivory is used for ornaments, and parts of tigers and rhinos are used in traditional medicine or ground down and added to wine.

Armed with skin as durable as armor and an intimidating temperament, African rhinos are well equipped to face down almost any natural predator — but when it comes to the horrific activities of illegal rhino horn smugglers, even they could use some backup.

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

Genetic material from Sudan was collected before he died, in the hope that medical breakthroughs of the future would allow using that to birth northern white rhinos.

The northern white rhino is a subspecies of white rhino, which used to range over parts of Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.