【海外の反応】クロサイさん、オスの50%が同種同士の殺し合いで死亡www哺乳類最凶の縄張り争い

I heard a radio show, either Radiolab or This American Life, that did an interesting episode about this. There was someone who won the rights to hunt a black rhino at an auction, paid some exorbitant amount of money for it, which on its surface seems like a monstrous thing, but the radio show went on to explain that he didn’t win the rights to kill *any* black rhino. Specifically, he won the rights to hunt one specific black rhino, and older male who was well past his prime breeding years but who was still strong, mean, and very, very territorial. He was not mating with any females, but he *was* killing a lot of younger, more virile males that probably would have.

Killing him would mean that many more rhino couples would be able to successfully mate and many more baby rhinos would be born. It would be so beneficial to the species that the auction was actually coordinated by a conservation group actively working to protect the species. But none of that made any of the headlines, all that was reported was that a rich American doctor paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to kill an endangered rhino

Really taught me to look at a story from as many angles as I can find before making a judgement about a person or event

FATALITY

You know, everyone talks about human on rhino violence but no one talks about rhino on rhino violence.

Years ago I went on a walking safari (in Africa any event with animals is a safari).

It was myself, my brother, guide and a soldier with an old ass bolt action rifle. We came across a bunch of white rhinos playing in mud. One came up to us. I stepped behind a tree. The soldier just kicked a small rock in the rhinos direction. It jumped up and ran back to the pack.

The guide and solider never got nervous, it said it would have been different if it was a black rhino.

Sounds like someone just watched casual geographic 😆

*Kombat

It surprises me that this also applies to females in those numbers.

Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun-DUN.