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packman

(16,296 posts) Sat Apr 18, 2015, 12:11 PM Apr 2015

Hmm- makes you wonder about extinction choices

Is their something afoot here?

Black Rhinos have been hunted to extinction since 2011 for their horns:

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While the last male White Rhino is getting around the clock protection by black gamewardens-

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Hmm- makes you wonder about extinction choices (Original Post) packman Apr 2015 OP

The “white” rhino and the black rhino frogmarch Apr 2015 #1

frogmarch

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1. The “white” rhino and the black rhino

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Sat Apr 18, 2015, 02:29 PM

Apr 2015

are both grey. The “white” in the name comes from the flat (wide) shape of the “white” rhino’s lip. The black rhino’s lip is pointed. The word wijde is Dutch for “wide,” and that is why the wide-lipped rhino is called a "white" rhino. No other reason.

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