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What chance have the rhinos? |
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Borner, M. |
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1979 |
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Oryx |
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15 (2) |
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111-112 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
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| The hunters use three kind of trap for rhino, the most harmful to the population being the one that drives spear deep into the rhino's back, because, not only does it very rarely kill the rhino immediately, but local hunters admitted that more than half of the speared rhinos were never found. Dr... |
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| Horn is used as aphrodisiac |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| Sumatra. In Sumatra, all parts of the rhino are used and all fetch high prices, reports Markus Borner, who spent three years on a field study of the surnatran rhino. So the incentives to poach are very strong and the ruthless illegal hunting is probably as important a reason for this rhino's de... |
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What chance have the rhinos?
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