so poachers would not have a reason to hunt them. It seems like that would be the sensible thing to do.
If the Rhinos actually need their horns for some reason they could give them fiberglass ones. Make them daygloorange so the poachers would see that they were fake.
Put up big signs: Rhinos Have NO HORNS!!!
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The last white rhino
Since it can't mate and produce offspring, LET"S EAT IT.
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mating is not required...neither is a member of the opposite gender...or so it's been reported.
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I thought it was some other member who is always leaving his carbon footprints all over the world.
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How many other issues can you snowball this into?
Unfair treatment of hunters? Gun control? Border security? Can you fit a Michael Moore, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter angle in here someplace?
Come on, I know you can do it!
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I get the feeling you go around repeating lines from every movie or TV show you ever watched. No shame in that... men do it. It just amuses me that you have to steal lines from my old posts. Gives a new meaning to the word "mocumentary" I guess.
Now, try and figure out what Jonah was talking about and I might gain some respect for how clever you think you are.
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... but your witticism was fairly weak. it's too bad you think it was clever. It really wasn't.
Oscar Wild you're not.
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And Oscar Wilde you're not.
Give it up. Go start a fight with somebody else.
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but no friends.
I don't know if he actually comes from Togo. Maybe they named the country after him. Maybe someone asked, "Where's Togo" and someone else pointed to a place on the map.
Burkina Faso sounds like it could be his sister.
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I believe they have more of them down in S. Africa.
Ed did make an interesting point though. Since a rhino horn is essentially made of hair and thus inert... I wonder if it could be poisoned without harming the animal?
It would be quite a surprise for some one who could afford the stuff (I hesitate to say "rich" for fear of offending someone) to grate a little bit into their tea, or however it is ingested, only to find the "lift" they expected was a trip to the hospital instead.
Sure would put a crimp on a romantic evening!
grim
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