Dear Group Members, My name is Dhaval Desai and I am the freshman student in this college and I am majoring in Accounting. I have read the article and it talks about the Rhino’s importance in the wildlife and also celebrating the Sumatran rhino’s pregnancy after 115 years. According to the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), this is a big achievement in the wildlife population of the rhino because the Sumatran rhino’s population has decreased by more than 50 percent in last 15 years. Therefore, this pregnancy can create the change and bright the future generation of the rhino’s population. Due to the fact that the rhino population has decreased in last few years, this pregnancy is really a big event and I would support the IRF to save more rhino over the globe. In addition, the Sumatran rhino is the rarest of the five rhino species. Its population is about 200 individuals in the wild and 10 in captivity worldwide, according to IRF estimates. Thus, we all should support the rhino and create a better life for them.
HELLO GROUP, MY NAME IS AUNDREA B, I AM MAJORING IN FORENSIC SCIENCE. IM NOT REALLY INTO THE WHOLE ENDANGERED SPEICIES TOPIC BUT I CAN SAY THAT I AM REALLY HAPPY I READ THE ARTICLE BECAUSE IT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. BEFORE READING THIS I DIDN’T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT RHINOCEROS, THE ONLY THING I KNEW IS THAT THEY WERE FAT AND SLOW. I FIGURED IT HAD TO BE ON THE TOP OF THE LIST TO BE THE HEAVIEST MAMMAL ON GROUNDS. BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WHY ARE THEY CALLING THE RHINOCEROS ENDANGERED SPIECES? AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES? THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE TO ME. AUNDREA B.
Hello My name is Yuriko Kinnard, I am majoring in Medical Sonography. Like Aundrea im not really into the whole endangered speices thing. But this article kind of stood out to me. Its sad that the rhinos are becoming apart of the endangered speices group. But its also kind of cool to see that they are becoming pregnant and having little babies. I like that the fact that these mammals are getting pregnant can create a whole new generation for this speices. But they all look somewhat alike, not much though. What are some of the reasons they are becoming apart of the endangered speieces.
Hello, My name is Ben Thompson, I am majoring criminal justice. I have never really heard anything about rhinos so hearing that they are one the endangered list a first for me. From the article it seems like they are very difficult to take care of because of all the studying they are doing with them. They said it has been 112 year since the birth of three in captivity with all of the technology we have I don’t see why it took so long to do. But I’m not a big animal person so I don’t know much about breeding. But it just seems like they could be doing more
Great start to the discussion, all! Nice work pointing out how much mystery surrounds the rhino; I didn't know much about them either until I started this blog project. I'll introduce to you all some information found on the WWF's website:
"Today however, very few rhinos now survive outside national parks and reserves. There are five species of rhino, three species are found in Asia and two are found in Africa. Javan, Sumatran and Indian rhinos are found in Asia. Both the Javan and Sumatran rhinos are listed on IUCN’s Red List as critically endangered and the Indian rhino is listed as endangered. There are two distinct subspecies of Javan rhino, one lives in Vietnam and the other on the Indonesian island of Java."
Another fact I found particularly alarming is that there are *80 or less* Javan rhinos alive; that's about how many students I teach on a Monday, i.e. I see more students in one day then there are Javan rhino left in the world! I also learned that rhinos were depicted in ancient civilization's art work, meaning they've been around a very long time. Another fun fact, addressing Andrea's comments - the rhino is the second largest land mammal (1st place is the elephant), but hippos are the "fattest" (heaviest):) To address Yuriko's question, the reason rhinos are dying out is half due to human intervention, such as humans moving into rhinos' habitats, but the largest reason for their placement on the endangered species list is that rhinoceroses are hunted and killed for their horn, which is believed to have various healing and trade value.
Ben and Dhaval made great points about how to better our conservation efforts in regard to the rhinos. Part of the difficulty of rhinoceros breeding is that rhino pregnancies last 15-16 months, which gives a mother rhino a long time to care for herself until the baby is born, and it takes baby rhinos 18 months to be fully independent of their mothers. And it's worth mentioning that raising rhinos in captivity helps, but it also poses problems. So what do you all think would be the best way to help the rhino? What investigating can you do to find out more about rhinos, in the wild *and* in captivity? What is being done now to help them? What type of animal is the rhino? Where all does it live? And, to add to Ben's question, what type of technology is used today in regard to endangered species?
Hello, My name is Meranda Saltsman, I am also majoring in Medical Sonograpghy. I guess the thought of Rinos being endangered species never occured to me, but I have always thought they were pretty interesting at the zoo. The artical mentions that the Sumatran rhino is a very solitary mammal and very aggressive towards each other. So I see where it would be hard for breeding, and even with all the technology today you never know what the actions of a wild animal could be. Ive also heard of poaching but never really thought that it was still going on today its pretty sad that all the efforts being done by the IRF can just be destoryed by a careless hunter.
Hello group, I found a cool fact about Rhinos, well at least cool to me. The Rhinos horns are made of keratin and it has a protein in it that helps your hair and finger nails grow! Who would have thought that this beast of a creature has something that could help humans? It’s sad that these mammals are becoming a part of the endangered species. The Rhinos are becoming endangered because they sleep under trees and people are wiping out the all the trees in the savannahs. And they are being killed off by the cat family. Also pollution like toxic waste are on the grass and when they eat the grass they die. So basically the population is declining because of us! I feel bad for these poor guys
HELLO GROUP ONCE AGAIN IT’S YOUR GIRL AUNDREA B., MAN SO MANY OF YALL SAID GOOD THINGS ABOUT RHINOS, BUT I HAVE TO AGREE AND COMMENT ON WHAT YURIKO HAS SAID. IT’S CRAZY, HOW THEY ARE BEING KILLED BY THE HUMANS. THE QUESTION IS WHY WE CAN’T HELP THEM LIKE THEY HELP USE WITH GROWING OUR HAIR AND NAILS. THESE FACTS JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. AS FOR WHAT MS. MCCOY ASKED I THINK WE COULD HELP THE RHINO BY CAPTURING THEM AND PUT THEM ALL IN LOCAL ZOOS, SO THEN WE WANT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM DYING UNLESS THEY JUST GET OLD. AUNDREA B.
Hey, I found a pretty cool fact the Sumatran rhino is also known as the "Hairy Rhino". They are covered in patches of short stiff hair which actually helps keep the mud on their bodies to keep them cool and protect them from insects. I never knew rhinos even had hair I always thought they just had really tough skin. Its sad that humans are being so careless so these creatures and I'm pretty sure that Rhino's are not the only mammal being destroyed by us. It seems like all the Sumatran rhinos are in captivity today which is really good. Twenty years from now it would suck for half of the animals alive today to not even be around.
Hello This Is Ben and on the question that was asked was, what do you all think would be the best way to help the rhino? I think that with them being so high maintenance the best way to help them would be to put them in captivity because their, they will have no predators and plenty of food. There is a rhino research program that is primarily based in the Hluhluwe-imfolozi National Park in South Africa, a 96,000 hectare reserve
HELLO ITS AUNDREA B. SO I FIND AN ARTICLE ON GOOGLE ABOUT A SUMATRAN RHINO NAMED EMI THAT WAS IN CAPTIVITY AT THE CINNCINATTI ZOO BACK IN 2001. SHE WAS 21 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. Emi was the first Sumatran rhino to give birth in captivity since 1889. After five failed pregnancies, Emi gave birth to a healthy male after vets used a treatment of special hormones. I THINK GIVING BIRTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING NO MATTER HUMAN OR ANIMAL. ITS JUST SAD THAT AFTER EMI GAVE BIRTH SHE DIES. SO OVERALL IM GLAD I READ THE ARTCLE I HAVE NOTHIN BUT RESPECT FOR RHINOS NOW.
Hello, This is Dhaval and I am glad that everyone support the Rhino and I just like to bring the fact that after many years the rhino is being pergnant and so, this is a big achievement and we should help to get more rhino babies. Also, I agree with Ben that high mantience of rhino is very necessary because people killing them for their benefits. Many people has been asking why the rhino is being danger and I found that most of people hunt rhino for their horn and they call them “Black gold” because they are very expensive. I found this website http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/rhinoceros/rhinos.html which tells lots of interseting facts about the rhino and it talks about why the rhino are being danger? Check this website if you looking for details about the rhino.
Hello My name is Ben and I this is one article that I have came across http://www.rhinos-irf.org/crisis-zimbabwe/ . It talks about the black Rihno and what they are doing to help them in Zimbabwe. The crisis-zimbabwe article talks about the anti poaching efforts witch helped them to have fourth largest black Rhino population. They have a link on this page so that you can donate money to their cause.
Hello, This is Dhaval and I found this video “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWarnqcZoCc” which talks about how people hunt the rhino’s horn for their own benefits and its really terrible that people cut their horn. In the video it shows that some people cut the horn and after they lose their horn, rhino lost their sense of smell and the sense of communicate to other rhino. This video saws that rhino’s horn is very pericous to them and we need to support rhino and try to reduce the number of hunter all around the world. Check this Video out and it will show you all about the rhino’s horn. Dhaval
Hello, This is Meranda i found a website where you can adopt a Rhino. http://www.rhinos-irf.org/adoptarhino/. All you do is donate and if you donate $30 dollars it helps to feed and care for one of the 5 rhinos for two days. $60 dollars will feed them for 4 days. With the donations they ensure veterinary care for the rhinos and up keep of their habitat. I just think that its nice to know that we can help.
Hello its Yuriko again I found this interesting link about the white rhino , he’s so big and pretty I don’t understand why people would want to hurt these poor animals I find it very hard to understand. http://www.planetware.com/picture/louisville-louisville-zoo-us-ky137.htm
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Dear Group Members,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Dhaval Desai and I am the freshman student in this college and I am majoring in Accounting. I have read the article and it talks about the Rhino’s importance in the wildlife and also celebrating the Sumatran rhino’s pregnancy after 115 years. According to the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), this is a big achievement in the wildlife population of the rhino because the Sumatran rhino’s population has decreased by more than 50 percent in last 15 years. Therefore, this pregnancy can create the change and bright the future generation of the rhino’s population. Due to the fact that the rhino population has decreased in last few years, this pregnancy is really a big event and I would support the IRF to save more rhino over the globe. In addition, the Sumatran rhino is the rarest of the five rhino species. Its population is about 200 individuals in the wild and 10 in captivity worldwide, according to IRF estimates. Thus, we all should support the rhino and create a better life for them.
Dhaval Desai
HELLO GROUP,
ReplyDeleteMY NAME IS AUNDREA B, I AM MAJORING IN FORENSIC SCIENCE. IM NOT REALLY INTO THE WHOLE ENDANGERED SPEICIES TOPIC BUT I CAN SAY THAT I AM REALLY HAPPY I READ THE ARTICLE BECAUSE IT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. BEFORE READING THIS I DIDN’T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT RHINOCEROS, THE ONLY THING I KNEW IS THAT THEY WERE FAT AND SLOW. I FIGURED IT HAD TO BE ON THE TOP OF THE LIST TO BE THE HEAVIEST MAMMAL ON GROUNDS. BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WHY ARE THEY CALLING THE RHINOCEROS ENDANGERED SPIECES? AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES? THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE TO ME.
AUNDREA B.
Hello
ReplyDeleteMy name is Yuriko Kinnard, I am majoring in Medical Sonography. Like Aundrea im not really into the whole endangered speices thing. But this article kind of stood out to me. Its sad that the rhinos are becoming apart of the endangered speices group. But its also kind of cool to see that they are becoming pregnant and having little babies. I like that the fact that these mammals are getting pregnant can create a whole new generation for this speices. But they all look somewhat alike, not much though. What are some of the reasons they are becoming apart of the endangered speieces.
Yuriko
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ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Ben Thompson, I am majoring criminal justice. I have never really heard anything about rhinos so hearing that they are one the endangered list a first for me. From the article it seems like they are very difficult to take care of because of all the studying they are doing with them. They said it has been 112 year since the birth of three in captivity with all of the technology we have I don’t see why it took so long to do. But I’m not a big animal person so I don’t know much about breeding. But it just seems like they could be doing more
Great start to the discussion, all! Nice work pointing out how much mystery surrounds the rhino; I didn't know much about them either until I started this blog project. I'll introduce to you all some information found on the WWF's website:
ReplyDelete"Today however, very few rhinos now survive outside national parks and reserves.
There are five species of rhino, three species are found in Asia and two are found in Africa.
Javan, Sumatran and Indian rhinos are found in Asia. Both the Javan and Sumatran rhinos are listed on IUCN’s Red List as critically endangered and the Indian rhino is listed as endangered. There are two distinct subspecies of Javan rhino, one lives in Vietnam and the other on the Indonesian island of Java."
Another fact I found particularly alarming is that there are *80 or less* Javan rhinos alive; that's about how many students I teach on a Monday, i.e. I see more students in one day then there are Javan rhino left in the world! I also learned that rhinos were depicted in ancient civilization's art work, meaning they've been around a very long time. Another fun fact, addressing Andrea's comments - the rhino is the second largest land mammal (1st place is the elephant), but hippos are the "fattest" (heaviest):) To address Yuriko's question, the reason rhinos are dying out is half due to human intervention, such as humans moving into rhinos' habitats, but the largest reason for their placement on the endangered species list is that rhinoceroses are hunted and killed for their horn, which is believed to have various healing and trade value.
Ben and Dhaval made great points about how to better our conservation efforts in regard to the rhinos. Part of the difficulty of rhinoceros breeding is that rhino pregnancies last 15-16 months, which gives a mother rhino a long time to care for herself until the baby is born, and it takes baby rhinos 18 months to be fully independent of their mothers. And it's worth mentioning that raising rhinos in captivity helps, but it also poses problems. So what do you all think would be the best way to help the rhino? What investigating can you do to find out more about rhinos, in the wild *and* in captivity? What is being done now to help them? What type of animal is the rhino? Where all does it live? And, to add to Ben's question, what type of technology is used today in regard to endangered species?
Hello,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Meranda Saltsman, I am also majoring in Medical Sonograpghy. I guess the thought of Rinos being endangered species never occured to me, but I have always thought they were pretty interesting at the zoo. The artical mentions that the Sumatran rhino is a very solitary mammal and very aggressive towards each other. So I see where it would be hard for breeding, and even with all the technology today you never know what the actions of a wild animal could be. Ive also heard of poaching but never really thought that it was still going on today its pretty sad that all the efforts being done by the IRF can just be destoryed by a careless hunter.
Hello group,
ReplyDeleteI found a cool fact about Rhinos, well at least cool to me. The Rhinos horns are made of keratin and it has a protein in it that helps your hair and finger nails grow! Who would have thought that this beast of a creature has something that could help humans? It’s sad that these mammals are becoming a part of the endangered species. The Rhinos are becoming endangered because they sleep under trees and people are wiping out the all the trees in the savannahs. And they are being killed off by the cat family. Also pollution like toxic waste are on the grass and when they eat the grass they die. So basically the population is declining because of us! I feel bad for these poor guys
P.S that last one is from Yuriko lol.
ReplyDeleteHELLO GROUP
ReplyDeleteONCE AGAIN IT’S YOUR GIRL AUNDREA B., MAN SO MANY OF YALL SAID GOOD THINGS ABOUT RHINOS, BUT I HAVE TO AGREE AND COMMENT ON WHAT YURIKO HAS SAID. IT’S CRAZY, HOW THEY ARE BEING KILLED BY THE HUMANS. THE QUESTION IS WHY WE CAN’T HELP THEM LIKE THEY HELP USE WITH GROWING OUR HAIR AND NAILS. THESE FACTS JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. AS FOR WHAT MS. MCCOY ASKED I THINK WE COULD HELP THE RHINO BY CAPTURING THEM AND PUT THEM ALL IN LOCAL ZOOS, SO THEN WE WANT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM DYING UNLESS THEY JUST GET OLD.
AUNDREA B.
Hey,
ReplyDeleteI found a pretty cool fact the Sumatran rhino is also known as the "Hairy Rhino". They are covered in patches of short stiff hair which actually helps keep the mud on their bodies to keep them cool and protect them from insects. I never knew rhinos even had hair I always thought they just had really tough skin. Its sad that humans are being so careless so these creatures and I'm pretty sure that Rhino's are not the only mammal being destroyed by us. It seems like all the Sumatran rhinos are in captivity today which is really good. Twenty years from now it would suck for half of the animals alive today to not even be around.
Meranda
Hello
ReplyDeleteThis Is Ben and on the question that was asked was, what do you all think would be the best way to help the rhino? I think that with them being so high maintenance the best way to help them would be to put them in captivity because their, they will have no predators and plenty of food. There is a rhino research program that is primarily based in the Hluhluwe-imfolozi National Park in South Africa, a 96,000 hectare reserve
HELLO
ReplyDeleteITS AUNDREA B. SO I FIND AN ARTICLE ON GOOGLE ABOUT A SUMATRAN RHINO NAMED EMI THAT WAS IN CAPTIVITY AT THE CINNCINATTI ZOO BACK IN 2001. SHE WAS 21 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. Emi was the first Sumatran rhino to give birth in captivity since 1889. After five failed pregnancies, Emi gave birth to a healthy male after vets used a treatment of special hormones. I THINK GIVING BIRTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING NO MATTER HUMAN OR ANIMAL. ITS JUST SAD THAT AFTER EMI GAVE BIRTH SHE DIES. SO OVERALL IM GLAD I READ THE ARTCLE I HAVE NOTHIN BUT RESPECT FOR RHINOS NOW.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThis is Dhaval and I am glad that everyone support the Rhino and I just like to bring the fact that after many years the rhino is being pergnant and so, this is a big achievement and we should help to get more rhino babies. Also, I agree with Ben that high mantience of rhino is very necessary because people killing them for their benefits. Many people has been asking why the rhino is being danger and I found that most of people hunt rhino for their horn and they call them “Black gold” because they are very expensive. I found this website http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/rhinoceros/rhinos.html which tells lots of interseting facts about the rhino and it talks about why the rhino are being danger? Check this website if you looking for details about the rhino.
Dhaval
Hello
ReplyDeleteMy name is Ben and I this is one article that I have came across http://www.rhinos-irf.org/crisis-zimbabwe/ . It talks about the black Rihno and what they are doing to help them in Zimbabwe. The crisis-zimbabwe article talks about the anti poaching efforts witch helped them to have fourth largest black Rhino population. They have a link on this page so that you can donate money to their cause.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThis is Dhaval and I found this video “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWarnqcZoCc” which talks about how people hunt the rhino’s horn for their own benefits and its really terrible that people cut their horn. In the video it shows that some people cut the horn and after they lose their horn, rhino lost their sense of smell and the sense of communicate to other rhino. This video saws that rhino’s horn is very pericous to them and we need to support rhino and try to reduce the number of hunter all around the world. Check this Video out and it will show you all about the rhino’s horn.
Dhaval
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThis is Meranda i found a website where you can adopt a Rhino. http://www.rhinos-irf.org/adoptarhino/. All you do is donate and if you donate $30 dollars it helps to feed and care for one of the 5 rhinos for two days. $60 dollars will feed them for 4 days. With the donations they ensure veterinary care for the rhinos and up keep of their habitat. I just think that its nice to know that we can help.
Hello its Yuriko again
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting link about the white rhino , he’s so big and pretty I don’t understand why people would want to hurt these poor animals I find it very hard to understand.
http://www.planetware.com/picture/louisville-louisville-zoo-us-ky137.htm