The best of news from the top is no-one from the Dallas Safari Club tried to shoot it yet.
Black rhinos are some of the most severely endangered animals in the world and that's from the worst of causes in hunting for the horns because witch doctors in China and elsewhere regard them as medicine. Unknown what such thinkers believe they will do when they kill them all but there are many Chinese and few rhinos so the arithmetic seems simple.
Ayana is the baby black rhino's name and she was up quickly after birth to begin feeding not long after that. All signs thus far indicate the baby is healthy. (ABC: Endangered Black Rhino Born at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines)
Note: ABC is not significant since they pulled the story from the AP wire. Here at the Rockhouse, that's a big boost to credibility.
We suspect there will be a long line at the Des Moines Zoo to see the brand-new little creature.
Sorry but some grim facts give all the more reason for conservation and protection since there are forty-six black rhinos in America but only six are breeding females. The probability of saving the wild population from zoo-raised stock seems low but some animals have recovered from incredibly low numbers albeit with a substantial reduction in diversity within that specific genome.
There are many things we can do to provide measures of conservation and none of them involve safari hunters who say they do so much. However, all will likely be distasteful to the world's elite since Africa has been a target for stripping of resources, even human beings, for centuries but the elite gave almost nothing in return. This, in turn, results in broken economies and thus creates the environment for poaching when there are such fantastic payoffs for doing it.
- Insert editorial as you wish regarding which self-entitled political family gets off on killing wild animals in Africa -
There's no getting past the need for the minimal editorial regarding conservation and you know how it goes as we ask how will the children ever really know.
Black rhinos are some of the most severely endangered animals in the world and that's from the worst of causes in hunting for the horns because witch doctors in China and elsewhere regard them as medicine. Unknown what such thinkers believe they will do when they kill them all but there are many Chinese and few rhinos so the arithmetic seems simple.
Ayana is the baby black rhino's name and she was up quickly after birth to begin feeding not long after that. All signs thus far indicate the baby is healthy. (ABC: Endangered Black Rhino Born at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines)
Note: ABC is not significant since they pulled the story from the AP wire. Here at the Rockhouse, that's a big boost to credibility.
We suspect there will be a long line at the Des Moines Zoo to see the brand-new little creature.
Sorry but some grim facts give all the more reason for conservation and protection since there are forty-six black rhinos in America but only six are breeding females. The probability of saving the wild population from zoo-raised stock seems low but some animals have recovered from incredibly low numbers albeit with a substantial reduction in diversity within that specific genome.
There are many things we can do to provide measures of conservation and none of them involve safari hunters who say they do so much. However, all will likely be distasteful to the world's elite since Africa has been a target for stripping of resources, even human beings, for centuries but the elite gave almost nothing in return. This, in turn, results in broken economies and thus creates the environment for poaching when there are such fantastic payoffs for doing it.
- Insert editorial as you wish regarding which self-entitled political family gets off on killing wild animals in Africa -
There's no getting past the need for the minimal editorial regarding conservation and you know how it goes as we ask how will the children ever really know.
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