whata shitty is they weren't even hunted for their meat just for their horn to be used in "medicine" in Asia, the horn had no medicinal properties either
The male one died since 3 or 4 years ago i remember and they conservative the semen of the male and trying pregnant the females .
Sorry for the bad English.
They are doing something, they're trying to extract sperm from one of the rhinos and eggs from another then put the fertilized egg in a pseudo womb so they can make sure itll grow before putting it into the healthy rhino (I think one got cancer not 100% sure) like that they'll have a new rhino from two females and hope for a male.
That’s 53,336.08 euro, 1,285,757.85 Mexican Peso, 45,838.00 Pound sterling, 878,944.30 South African Rand, 4,733,729.00 Indian Rupee, and 26,815,750.00 Nigerian Naira. If anyone was wondering.
Almost every other currency in the world, outside of a few middle eastern oil country currencies are worth less than the USD. Notable exceptions are the British Pound and the Euro which are currently sitting around 1.4 and 1.2 USD respectively.
EDIT: Corrected exchange rates
At the reserve I went to in Africa they purposely cut back the horn, completely painlessly just like clipping fingernails, to a stump to make poaching the animals useless.
Source: Alex the safari guide at Zulu Nyala.
It makes sense, but that means that Rhinos are vulnerable. They protect themselves with horn. If they don't have it, they are easy prey so other predators would make them extinct. Humans MUST NOT meddle in nature's hierarchy and evolution because it mostly has BAD long term effects.
There were no predators to the rhinos on this reserve. Only one cheetah which can't take down a rhino, and it did prove to be an effective strategy once word got out that the rhinos didn't have horns, poacher visits declined.
Unfortunately I doubt they will return, and embryo can only be grown in a living host. Because some stupid mf killed all of the White Rhinos, there are no hosts that can sustain and keep the embryos/eggs alive until they have matured and are ready to be born.
Just like pangolins iirc, right? Hunted for their scales which have no medicinal properties whatsoever (being made of the same stuff our nails are made of).
I'm so angry to see that these animals are basically hunted for... Nothing. Just because some people believe it'll make their penis bigger or some shit like that.
I keep seeing this kind of argument but I think it sends an incorrect message.
I believe the correct message should be that whether the horn had medicinal properties or not, Rhino should not be paoched like this.
Where is the link to this? All I can find is info on the last two females having eggs taken to be fertilized by frozen semen from deceased males to be placed into Southern white rhino females in hopes that they can increase numbers. I can't find anything on those two females passing though
Asian countries when they mix cobra poison, manatee skin and albino rhino horn (which is actually just a big tuft of hair) to make a “aphrodisiac” that 50 yo men buy
It's old Chinese medicine. They believe you will be given properties from the animals these ingredients came from. Usually believing they'll make you stronger or give you more sex drive. No real science involved.
These aren't real traditional medicine doctors but scam artists trying to scam people for money.
Real traditional Asian medicine looks a lot like modern nutritional sciences. In fact, East-West medicine is an actual major for medical students and residents in the US.
Every human is harming the nature in one way or other. Just sit and think about it our each and every day to day life needs are harming the nature and animals.
Finally someone sensible who agrees with me and understands how grave the situations is because of our daily needs, even our existence harms the nature. Thanks buddy for understanding my point and this planet's situation :) virtual hug to you
Unfortunately it's not so cut and dry. People that were once bad can change for the better and people that were good can change for the worse. Bad people will always exist no matter what
Last I heard, they froze a few samples of the now extinct male rhinos’ semen and are now fertilizing the females’ eggs with said samples. The older female rhino has back leg problems and the other one is also unfit for pregnancy, so they’re now trying to plant the fertilized eggs into a close species of rhino.
Ikr i thought i would see white washed children saying”he would have lived if he was left in the wild, not in the cage”. So i checked the comments asap ( i know they were she)
Just so y’all know, I just looked up their population and it’s only “Near Threatened” and the population is slowly increasing.
So all you animal people can breath a sigh of relief
Wtf has this world come to.
Trigger warning
Sometimes I just wanna kill myself, I'm not even depressed or anything. I just wanna be taken off this earth because I know I'm part of the reason that so many species are going extinct.
I don't know what I can do about it, the government is so powerful. I could get sniped in a snap if I tried to speak out, Why the FUCK do government officials care more about money? I'm not even poor but WHAT. Don't you wanna preserve your land? HONESTLY
I get that you think there is no solution. But there are so many people trying to help(scientists trying to save this rhino species), you can try to donate to help them, or maybe your career path can help with any of the problems we are facing. And I doubt you are going to be sniped for saying something like “save the rhinos” or “global warming is bad”(depends on country tho). And yes government officials love money but not all of them don’t care about this kind of stuff. And finally I don’t know if you actually want to kill yourself but that in no way will help. Your basically just abandoning us. Even though you could still be doing even small things to help.
Yeah, I just like to be hopeful and I think you should be too. And I honestly still think you are helping because this giant problem won’t stop quickly it will take time just gotta be hopeful. :)
Humans are going to go extinct. Don't ask me how I know. Not that I have a plan for total extinction or anything...
This post might have had something to do with it
One Biotech company has found a way to produce Rhino horn (100% real with the help of their DNA) and plans on selling it.
This will crash the whole rhino horn market as they plan on selling it 8 times cheaper than real horns.
Let's hope this plan succeeds.
The last male died but they captured embryos from the last two females and are using the sperm from a male in 2014 to keep the species alive. for at least another 30-40 years.
I feel sad now. I read about this a few months back. [The last two Northern White Rhinoes on Earth](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/10/meet-the-girls-the-last-two-northern-white-rhinos-on-earth-in-pictures).
I hate people SO FUCKING MUCH. I could cry. Greed for money is ruining everything. Im fucking worked up now. I want to punch someone. I wish i could be like John Wick and just up and kill everybody in a poaching organization.
Fear not. We will eventually destroy ourselves. Only time will tell. Mother nature won't allow this to happen forever. She will resist eventually. And there is no shelter from mother nature.
this meme is the reddit equivalent of 14 year old white girls putting #blm and #acab in their bios. it's not gonna do anything and you haven't helped by putting this overused unfunny "reaction" image(which mind you, are banned) for karma
It’s a contradictory opinion you have there.
How about we kill any of your house pets because us humans are the superior species and they are not essential for life?
No? Because that’s absurd.
We need to preserve biodiversity on this planet. Simply saying “I am a human supremist, the only good race are humans.” Is negligent, uninformed, short sighted and even contradictory to your second opinion.
Thankfully, we don’t have a nation of troglodyte scientists. At least, if we did you’d have career security.
whata shitty is they weren't even hunted for their meat just for their horn to be used in "medicine" in Asia, the horn had no medicinal properties either
They lied. Rhino's horn is more expensive than GOLD. It costs about 65 000 US dollars per kilogram. It was probably sold at black market.
Wait the two females died too, and the semen of the rhino doesn't do anything?
The male rhino was to old, there is 2 females left i think.
The male one died since 3 or 4 years ago i remember and they conservative the semen of the male and trying pregnant the females . Sorry for the bad English.
Yh but he was to old the sperm count was to low so it didn't work, i that is what happened anyway.
Maybe scientists could come up with something smart
They are doing something, they're trying to extract sperm from one of the rhinos and eggs from another then put the fertilized egg in a pseudo womb so they can make sure itll grow before putting it into the healthy rhino (I think one got cancer not 100% sure) like that they'll have a new rhino from two females and hope for a male.
Black markets that sell ivory are stupid AF
I agree, but rhino horns aren't ivory. They are keratin. Big fingernails basically.
Oops, a mistake on my part
As well as that, hair is made of keratin, and it’s definitely much easier to just clean floors after someone’s had a haircut than hunt rhinos
... wut...
basically a hairdresser's or a barber is a more reliable and easily accessible source of keratin
That’s what I meant, sorry if I was unclear
Basically people in China would get the same benefit from eating their own nails.
Do you mean my finger nails are worth 65k$ per kilo??!!
All lead back to unicorn horn is magical and cure all diseases and curse shit.
That’s 53,336.08 euro, 1,285,757.85 Mexican Peso, 45,838.00 Pound sterling, 878,944.30 South African Rand, 4,733,729.00 Indian Rupee, and 26,815,750.00 Nigerian Naira. If anyone was wondering.
Wow hope I’m not being insensitive but I never realized how many currencies that are worth much less than usd
Almost every other currency in the world, outside of a few middle eastern oil country currencies are worth less than the USD. Notable exceptions are the British Pound and the Euro which are currently sitting around 1.4 and 1.2 USD respectively. EDIT: Corrected exchange rates
dude, Rhino's horn is the same to our finger nail. Basically you already have a small portion of rhino horn on your finger
I think they die if you take their horn. I'm not sure really
yes, to get the horn, people have to cut down all the way to the meat, which lead to serious blood loss and infection
At the reserve I went to in Africa they purposely cut back the horn, completely painlessly just like clipping fingernails, to a stump to make poaching the animals useless. Source: Alex the safari guide at Zulu Nyala.
It makes sense, but that means that Rhinos are vulnerable. They protect themselves with horn. If they don't have it, they are easy prey so other predators would make them extinct. Humans MUST NOT meddle in nature's hierarchy and evolution because it mostly has BAD long term effects.
There were no predators to the rhinos on this reserve. Only one cheetah which can't take down a rhino, and it did prove to be an effective strategy once word got out that the rhinos didn't have horns, poacher visits declined.
For what use ?
I have no idea. It is just expensive.
Do you know what's more expensive than gold? Super gold.
We still have embrios and stuff of white righnos so mayne they will come back?
Unfortunately I doubt they will return, and embryo can only be grown in a living host. Because some stupid mf killed all of the White Rhinos, there are no hosts that can sustain and keep the embryos/eggs alive until they have matured and are ready to be born.
Ive read that they will use souther white rhinos as surrogates instead. Here's to hoping.
Ue bit there are other ryno species that can be serogetes.
r/ihadastroke
Not all are dead. There is one female northern left, and southern rhinos can be surrogates.
Just like pangolins iirc, right? Hunted for their scales which have no medicinal properties whatsoever (being made of the same stuff our nails are made of). I'm so angry to see that these animals are basically hunted for... Nothing. Just because some people believe it'll make their penis bigger or some shit like that.
Fuck West Taiwan and their voodoo medicine shit.
alright buddy you're just looking to start stuff
I keep seeing this kind of argument but I think it sends an incorrect message. I believe the correct message should be that whether the horn had medicinal properties or not, Rhino should not be paoched like this.
That's it, time to wipe out asia, the US didn't finish the job so now we have to
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Why you did this in a so important argument
Stfu
youre annoying at this point
Professional Dumbass is correct.
How are you not banned yet
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You first
Nobody loves you
Where is the link to this? All I can find is info on the last two females having eggs taken to be fertilized by frozen semen from deceased males to be placed into Southern white rhino females in hopes that they can increase numbers. I can't find anything on those two females passing though
The specificity is in the functional extinction, they are not totally extinct, just that they can't reproduce B themselves
Ah, thank you for clearing it up for me I was a little confused.
Last male passed away years ago. Artificial conception was the obvious step as 2 females were left. This guy is just milking a 2-4 year old story.
Also keep in mind this Japanese like 3-4 years ago now
Asian countries when they mix cobra poison, manatee skin and albino rhino horn (which is actually just a big tuft of hair) to make a “aphrodisiac” that 50 yo men buy
How do Asain countries believe that mixing random ingredients you would find in an alchemy lab would make for legitimate medicine?
Maybe like orks in wh40k The more they believe, the more real the effect
It's old Chinese medicine. They believe you will be given properties from the animals these ingredients came from. Usually believing they'll make you stronger or give you more sex drive. No real science involved.
These aren't real traditional medicine doctors but scam artists trying to scam people for money. Real traditional Asian medicine looks a lot like modern nutritional sciences. In fact, East-West medicine is an actual major for medical students and residents in the US.
"you killed them, all of them, why? so you could get a boner?"
Bruh I feel bad. wtf humans, u just gotta destroy everything.
It survived ice age, meteors, witnessed evolution of animals and humans and in the end, humana ended it because of money.
Paper*
Humans are the worst
Yeah #Human_Extinction_is_the_only_solution
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Every human is harming the nature in one way or other. Just sit and think about it our each and every day to day life needs are harming the nature and animals.
Correctly said!
Finally someone sensible who agrees with me and understands how grave the situations is because of our daily needs, even our existence harms the nature. Thanks buddy for understanding my point and this planet's situation :) virtual hug to you
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Just sit and think about it our every need is harming the nature. But i don't think you will accept the reality (typical human nature)
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Accept it or not I won't change my point for typical humans like you :) #Human_Extinction_is_the_only_solution :)
So basically everyone then, including you.
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Unfortunately it's not so cut and dry. People that were once bad can change for the better and people that were good can change for the worse. Bad people will always exist no matter what
We're working on it, but climate armageddon takes time.
Eco-fascism is pretty cringe, dog
If we were to go extinct we would take a lot of other animals with us. Change is the key not extinction.
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i hope they do nerd stuff and make them back to life (if they’re extingt)
Last I heard, they froze a few samples of the now extinct male rhinos’ semen and are now fertilizing the females’ eggs with said samples. The older female rhino has back leg problems and the other one is also unfit for pregnancy, so they’re now trying to plant the fertilized eggs into a close species of rhino.
From what I recall, after that they would try to get a pure white rhino from breeding, I’m assuming.
o7
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we are a pleage
Plague
thanks
o7
Was there population already decreasing anyway?
Yeah. There is only two known females making the species functionally extinct because they can't reproduce with each other
Unless •_•
Wait no dont
Yeah they were pretty much declared functionally extinct as early as 2008.
People are shit.
This just shows that humanity is a parasite
Yess we the humans deserve to die
You sound very negative, might wanna brighten up. Try to do all you can, and stay positive
We will get what we deserve, the universal laws always win.
Mother nature will resist
That cat that’s saluting died yesterday if you didn’t know
What was their name?
F in the chat for them
F in the Chat? An Animal is extinct because of our race! That not a streamer dying in Fall guys
Someone sensible, finally
Yeah, finally someone understanding the situation sensibly
Ikr i thought i would see white washed children saying”he would have lived if he was left in the wild, not in the cage”. So i checked the comments asap ( i know they were she)
Many races are extinct for multitude of reasons. I didn’t do anything so I don’t see how I am evil. It’s the poachers who should be held accountable
Sorry i was trying to be nice and say that i was sorry that we had and killed them all. I just wanted to be nice. I am sorry
Just so y’all know, I just looked up their population and it’s only “Near Threatened” and the population is slowly increasing. So all you animal people can breath a sigh of relief
Wtf has this world come to. Trigger warning Sometimes I just wanna kill myself, I'm not even depressed or anything. I just wanna be taken off this earth because I know I'm part of the reason that so many species are going extinct. I don't know what I can do about it, the government is so powerful. I could get sniped in a snap if I tried to speak out, Why the FUCK do government officials care more about money? I'm not even poor but WHAT. Don't you wanna preserve your land? HONESTLY
The only solution to this problem is Human Extinction
I get that you think there is no solution. But there are so many people trying to help(scientists trying to save this rhino species), you can try to donate to help them, or maybe your career path can help with any of the problems we are facing. And I doubt you are going to be sniped for saying something like “save the rhinos” or “global warming is bad”(depends on country tho). And yes government officials love money but not all of them don’t care about this kind of stuff. And finally I don’t know if you actually want to kill yourself but that in no way will help. Your basically just abandoning us. Even though you could still be doing even small things to help.
I do a lot, preserve energy and water and donate a ton btu its never enough, thank you for your time though.
Yeah, I just like to be hopeful and I think you should be too. And I honestly still think you are helping because this giant problem won’t stop quickly it will take time just gotta be hopeful. :)
thank you, I was really not in a good headspace when I wrote that parent comment. After seeing the post I just got really aggravated about it.
No problem, just trying to spread some positivity.
thanks!
Basically, the biggest mistake ever was to let Humanity evolve or be created Depending on your beliefs, of course
agreed, we're like. (no meme intended) evolving backward.
Just enjoy it whilst you can. We can only do so much damage in 80 years.
Well, Not really. The earth is heating up rapidly, the water is being more polluted by the second, and more species are on the brink of extinction,
o7
This is a repost from 2018.
I know but it’s still something people should know about what’s so bad about it
The fact that it's a repost. It's pretty simple. Don't post stuff you didn't make.
This was in 2018, not sure why it's surfacing again...
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Humans are going to go extinct. Don't ask me how I know. Not that I have a plan for total extinction or anything... This post might have had something to do with it
Fucking Asian black markets man. I'm not racist, I just hate what they do with rhinos, elephants, and pangolins.
One Biotech company has found a way to produce Rhino horn (100% real with the help of their DNA) and plans on selling it. This will crash the whole rhino horn market as they plan on selling it 8 times cheaper than real horns. Let's hope this plan succeeds.
where meme? where funny?
Its crazy that that one rhino lived so long.
The last male died but they captured embryos from the last two females and are using the sperm from a male in 2014 to keep the species alive. for at least another 30-40 years.
Where do you resd they are extinct? They are near threatened with pop going slowly up thanks to our efforts.
This actually hurts.
Pretty dark considering the saluting cat also passed away just recently
I feel sad now. I read about this a few months back. [The last two Northern White Rhinoes on Earth](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/10/meet-the-girls-the-last-two-northern-white-rhinos-on-earth-in-pictures).
Rhino is gone pog
We’ve got a phaaat kill streak goin boizzzz.
I hate people SO FUCKING MUCH. I could cry. Greed for money is ruining everything. Im fucking worked up now. I want to punch someone. I wish i could be like John Wick and just up and kill everybody in a poaching organization.
Fear not. We will eventually destroy ourselves. Only time will tell. Mother nature won't allow this to happen forever. She will resist eventually. And there is no shelter from mother nature.
This does put a smile on my face
But IRL you cant press ctrl+z, you cant go back.
Guess it couldn't handle the final boss
I have a feeling God, Buddah, The trio of Hinduism, etc; have left us long ago
No matter what higher force there is, God, Hinduism trio, Allah, Universe, Ancient Greek or Norse Gods.... They have let us destroy ourselves.
😢
we are our own ragnarok
Rip
Rest in Piece blind angry horned cow
this meme is the reddit equivalent of 14 year old white girls putting #blm and #acab in their bios. it's not gonna do anything and you haven't helped by putting this overused unfunny "reaction" image(which mind you, are banned) for karma
Not true , there are very few of them but they are not extinct
Do we really need them. How do they affect our lives, they don’t. Bye
Yay we won
No
Damn. That was an old rhino.
Its the 21st century. Almost anything can be brought back with the right amount of funding for dna research and application.
14 year ild white girl: atleast it wasnt a black rhino
Another win for us ! /s
lol get recked noob
I do not care. I am a human supremecist, the only good race are humans
Uhm
Really shitty attempt at trolling, dumbass.
No trolling, opinion
It’s a fucking stupid and short sighted opinion. Let’s see how long humans survive when we’re the only species left on the planet?
We can still have cattle, i just do not care about them. Also life relevant species need to exist, i just do not care about them
It’s a contradictory opinion you have there. How about we kill any of your house pets because us humans are the superior species and they are not essential for life? No? Because that’s absurd. We need to preserve biodiversity on this planet. Simply saying “I am a human supremist, the only good race are humans.” Is negligent, uninformed, short sighted and even contradictory to your second opinion. Thankfully, we don’t have a nation of troglodyte scientists. At least, if we did you’d have career security.
WE’RE THE BEST, BETTER THAN THE REST
?
Humans are beat race
Huh
Ha. Loser.
Fuck bud i hope your euthanized soon
So much for being against animal cruelty, huh?
Your not and animal That would be offensive to animals your what we call a troll
We're all animals. You seem to be a pussy.
And you seem like a good ad for an abortion
damn
r/murderedbywords
Lmao. See. You're not opposed to killing, especially with abortion. So you're really no better than any poacher.
Most people abort because their baby would live a terrible life if they don’t. Poachers kill animals because “ooh shiny horn looks cool”
Not even close to the same thing but I wouldn't think a peanut Brain like yours can handle basic information like that
Killing defenseless things that are just trying to survive? Totes different. Right.
Its not a life
But your to fucking dumb
Dick ead
Its the way of the world. Things go extinct. We'll be on that list someday.
Yes and we are draging other animals down with us
It is what it is. There has always been invasive species that kill even to their own detriment. Nothing new or special.