Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 20, 2023 17:15:06 GMT -5
Rhinos
The video enumerates the Rhino's strengths and its weaknesses such as low intelligence and poor eyesight when encountering predators such as lions and hyenas and when facing other large mammalian herbivores such as Hippos and elephants. Poor eyesight hinders them from the mutual support against predators which other herbivores provide each other because their propensity to attack anything that moves makes them likely to attack one another by mistake. So they tend to keep a safe distance.
The video refers to the white rhinoceros as if it were not on the verge of extinction. That might be true for the African southern species, but not for the Northern one.
Sadly, there are now only two Northern White Rhinos left in captivity, and both are female, with one being too sick and too old to be fertilized. So in-vitro artificial insemination is the only option if extinction is to be avoided.