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Rollicking Rhinos
I've had some difficulty in deciding whether to post these shots of rhinoceroses at all. Rhinos in Africa are subject to appalling poaching from organised gangs who kill the animals, and remove the horns in order to sell powered rhino horn in the Chinese and Vietnamese markets, the buyers of such believing that ingesting such increases their own male potency. There is a view that by posting images of rhinos, I may be helping identify where these animals are, and there are stories of people going on safari and posting in real time the co-ordinates of rhinos so that poachers may come and do their deadly despicable work. Thus, I have thought carefully before posting these shots and writing this Journal. I have decided to do so because the bad guys are highly professional, although they use poor, often Mozambique, people to do the actual slaying, who already know where the rhino are from fly overs (these guys use helicopters), and maps and i

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Rollicking Rhinos
I've had some difficulty in deciding whether to post these shots of rhinoceroses at all. Rhinos in Africa are subject to appalling poaching from organised gangs who kill the animals, and remove the horns in order to sell powered rhino horn in the Chinese and Vietnamese markets, the buyers of such believing that ingesting such increases their own male potency. There is a view that by posting images of rhinos, I may be helping identify where these animals are, and there are stories of people going on safari and posting in real time the co-ordinates of rhinos so that poachers may come and do their deadly despicable work. Thus, I have thought carefully before posting these shots and writing this Journal. I have decided to do so because the bad guys are highly professional, although they use poor, often Mozambique, people to do the actual slaying, who already know where the rhino are from fly overs (these guys use helicopters), and maps and i