Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 1
Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 2
Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 3
Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 4
Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 5
Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 6
Some very similar photographs of rhino just because we are probably nearing the end of their existence.
White Rhinocerus
Armour plating
Backdating
Marching through time
Walking in rhyme
Mounting defences
Increasing their chances
Strength in numbers
Dwindling fast
Warning thunders
Reach out from the past
Money speaks
History weeps
Photographs and poem ©Denise G Allen, 07 February 2013 06:21
Adeeyoyo's Blog 
07/02/2013 at 7:30 am
Weren’t the crushed up horns of the white supposed to be some kind of aphrodisiac? What fools we mortals be..
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07/02/2013 at 7:37 am
Aren’t we just, Jake? Sacrifice a whole species – for what? And who would have experimented to find that out – if it does, in fact, work?
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07/02/2013 at 6:17 pm
There is a lot that scares me about how our ancestors “discovered” such things..
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07/02/2013 at 7:48 pm
😮
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07/02/2013 at 7:45 am
It is a pity if they near extinction.
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07/02/2013 at 7:56 am
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/white-rhinoceros/
They are on the verge of extinction, SuNaMu.
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07/02/2013 at 10:33 am
Lovely sequence of shots. Oh, how nice it would be to turn the poachers and trafficers into an endangered species.
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07/02/2013 at 11:08 am
Hear, hear!
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07/02/2013 at 11:24 am
The close up in the second photo shows how powerful these animals are? I truly hope the poachers become less before we lose this wonderous creature.
Blessings ~ Maxi
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07/02/2013 at 1:39 pm
They are beautiful amd very powerful and, I believe, very short-sighted which may be how the hunters get so close to shoot them. I hope we don’t lose the battle to save them.
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07/02/2013 at 12:04 pm
I love the shots and agree completely with Col.
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07/02/2013 at 1:40 pm
Thanks so much. and yes, I couldn’t agree more, Hope.
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07/02/2013 at 2:01 pm
I have always been rather partial to that line of Dylan’s
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”
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07/02/2013 at 3:13 pm
I like that – it is an excellent word for it!
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07/02/2013 at 5:47 pm
The way we treat our wildlife is shocking.
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07/02/2013 at 7:50 pm
In this case, Tilly, it is the fact that poachers get away with killing and/or maiming the rhinos to cut off their horns.
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07/02/2013 at 10:42 pm
I know, but we are all responsible for preserving endangered animals.
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08/02/2013 at 5:11 am
You are so right, Tilly, but sometmes it is hard when the very people charged with keeping them safe are the ones who betray them for money while the kingpins hide in their own countries, safe and sound.
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07/02/2013 at 6:53 pm
yeah, “Money speaks
History weeps”
i’m still hoping there’ll come a day when money loses its power to outshout everything else… it’ll be utter chaos, i know, but it’ll have a semblance of sanity that will allow us to see what’s really real
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07/02/2013 at 7:52 pm
How I agree with you, Ruth. Money distorts most people’s view of the world.
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07/02/2013 at 11:59 pm
Beautiful shots. So glad that you had a chance to view them up close and personal.
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08/02/2013 at 5:15 am
Thanks, Nancy. I was very lucky to get these particular shots. I had all but given up hope, having only seen a large group of rhino in the distance, way across the savannah.
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08/02/2013 at 3:06 am
so sad…rhinos are my absolute favorite animal…have been since i was a kid…to think them culled for their horns breaks my heart…
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08/02/2013 at 5:18 am
They are so strong, Brian, and almost prehistoric-looking but with such beautiful clear-cut lines. We rounded a bend in the road and there they were! Wonderful!
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08/02/2013 at 4:30 am
How lovely that you saw these amazing creatures, adee. Your photos are wonderful. Your poem says it all. Such a tragedy for us and the next generations.
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08/02/2013 at 5:21 am
Thank you so much, AD! I really hope they survive for fhe future generations. We are responsible for so much devastation to the environment it would be wonderful if we could succeed in preserving these beautiful animals.
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11/02/2013 at 3:24 am
Oh Goodness, you were awfully close. Wonderful pictures though. I felt as if I were sitting there next to you.
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11/02/2013 at 8:51 am
Very close, Jeannie, within reach if my arm was a little longer, but they were strolling along, grazing peacefully. I wasn’t at all scared. To tell you the truth, one of the elephants was 100x more scary!
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