Rhino Transportation and Conservation

Question 1

Why are rhinos poached

Answer 1

horns used as a medicine, aphrodisiac, party drug, and accessorial purposes
may also be for the purpose of feeding families

Question 2

How is a rhino affected without a horn

Answer 2

Paranasal sinus’s are exposed- no place for blood to drain, rhino bleeds to death

Question 3

What are three methods of rhino transportation

Answer 3

Road- tranquilized and walked into crates
Air- transported in crates- trainers accompany
Upside down by air- improved ventilation

Question 4

Why are rhinos transported

Answer 4

Rescued from poaching hotspots
Ensure diverse gene pool
Bring more visitors to preserves
Local people are trained as guards
and rangers, helping boost the local
economy

Question 5

How does the frozen zoo work

Answer 5

Fibroblast cell cultures are established from skin biopsies and stored in the Frozen Zoo
- A virus delivers 4 factors into the fibroblast cells which “rewinds them” into stem cells. Stem cells can become any cell type in the body, even gametes. Goal: They could bring them together to make sperm and egg which could lead to NWR embryos in the laboratory