Rhinoceros shot at French zoo

[davidc4430]

how can this happen in a modern country like france? are our rino's safe here in our zoos?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-08/rhinoceros-killed-for-horn-at-french-zoo/8334798

[enigmabear]

What in the name of bleep is going on?

Good lord 

[kopenhagen5]

Rhino horn has zero nutritional benefit.

Education is the key.

The world needs to be saturated with info on some of these so called health benefits derived from animals that it has been no more than tall tales of the past.

[ecar3483]

Killing an animal in a zoo for the sake of making a fast buck.

The sheer greed of some people is beyond words.

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[bright.ton42]

Animals will always be the prey of the vilest hunter in the world, the human being, particularly when the target for these animals' bits and pieces are the primitive and ignorant.  .

[tasfleur]

This has left me speechless.  How can this happen in a country like France that has everything available at it's fingertips to protect and avoid this happening?

[ecar3483]

A kilo of horn could fetch as much as $60,000 (£49,300).

Greed, pure unmitigated greed.

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[davidc4430]

i take it people eat the horn after its powdered.

maybe they should come up with some kind of poison and inject it into the horns or even a dye that would make the horn useless. must be something that wouldnt harm the animal but would render the horn useless for anything other than being on a rino

[michellebartley]

Idiots trying to make a statement. Probably left wing loonies on the run.