Rhinos.

[@WildWorld81]

In Nepal rangers shoot poachers on sight. That’s why the Indian rhino populations have rebounded to the numbers they’re at now

[@cleanerben9636]

I was gunna say the best solution is to just kill the poachers and have better security for the reserves.

[@Twocat5side]

Savage

[@Twocat5side]

@@cleanerben9636 then you are giving the ranger legality to kill anyone on sight, many can often misuse this

[@MrTigracho]

@@cleanerben9636 Not to mention you are ignoring the source problem: The poverty most poachers come from. If you really want to stop poaching for good, you have to find a way to solving the poverty of Africa and fight the Rhino Market.

[@Dots321]

@@MrTigracho Nepal's not in Africa

[@Rexz2000]

I worked with the indian and black rhinos at my local zoo, not only are they surprisingly fast and agile but smart too. Our black rhino was shy, so when his hay was put in the outside yard in the morning he would run out of the barn, grab a mouthful of hay, and run back inside before the gates could close. Everyone I've talked to who has worked with white rhinos has said they are incredibly tactile animals who love to be pet and scratched not unlike a dog.

[@HkFinn83]

Their brain to body size ratio does not suggest high intelligence.

[@HkFinn83]

I mean, eating hay and running through a gate isn’t that suggestive of complicated cognitive powers

[@weegeequeviucoisas9854]

@@HkFinn83 brain to body size ratio does not necessarily equate to general intelligence, it's more about brain complexity.

[@kinnikuboneman]

Sure you did

[@Rexz2000]

@@HkFinn83 I'm not saying they are anywhere near as intelligent as elephants (which they are not) but what the rhino did seems to suggest some level of problem solving.

[@shaunmiranda9074]

‘Propane tank’ killed me

[@anteperic7849]

Ancient 🤣 Btw nice profile picture

[@HobGungan]

There actually is a Propane company called "Blue Rhino" whose mascot is - shocker of shocks - a blue rhino with a flame for a horn.

[@coreymerrill3257]

the joke was fire so the propane tank blew up.

[@coreymerrill3257]

@@HobGungan yes, we know. That's why it's funny to us all.

[@DeMooniC]

@@coreymerrill3257 I didn't know tho...

[@lymee]

As an Australian it's so weird to me that people want to introduce Rhinoceroses to the Australian wilderness considering we're a textbook example of why introducing new species to an environment is a bad idea

[@denmarkball7728]

Very cute

[@raditz1101]

Actually it's probably the best idea ever. The habit of invasive species to flourish in environments they're not native to, as long as theyre a rather slow breeding species like Rhinos and easy to control, is fantastic since they wont have anything stopping them. Also you cant tell me it wouldnt be cool to drive into the outback and see a rhino just chilling

[@austinmajor3288]

That is true, but you also have some examples of how some introduced species can be good: The dung beetles to help dispose of livestock dung to deal with the blow flies and the cactoblastis insects to deal with the prickly pear cactus, you could even say some of the diseases that help decimate rabbit populations over there could also be an example.

[@raditz1101]

@@austinmajor3288 see the problem with introducing insects is they're super hard to control without decimating the ecosystem as a whole. Take fire ants for example, cant really get rid of them with basically nuking the food chain.

[@ManuJM-gw3je]

Well, apart from creating refuges in the developed world for rhinos (and the fact that rhinos aren't toads, they're not gonna multiply like crazy), Australia used to have large megafauna before humans arrived. One of those especies, Diprotodon, is believed to have had a similar ecological niche to rhinoceros. So rhinos could actually be beneficial to Australia, unlike horses or camels that had no equivalent. Obviously this is untested theory, and it would need to be tested in some plot of australian land. But if doing so not only shows beneficial results from rhino browsing behaviour, but also helps them escape extinction, well, why not?

[@hi_im_ep1k187]

Many countries actually use their military to defend rhinos. Oddly enough they are worth millions not just for tourism but older bulls are a risk to the population as they will kill calves that don't belong to them so occasionally they hold raffles to hunt a rhino and the one I heard about went for 6 million and it mostly went to the conservation of the species. Actually really intelligent if you ask me.

[@magmat0585]

that's actually fairly common for species across the board from what i've heard. Older, infertile, or sick members of the species such as lions (and rhinos) will be raffled

[@HkFinn83]

Meh it’s still gross. I mean I’ve heard so many of these ‘sustainable hunting’ gimmicks and they all turn out to be pretty much bullshit.

[@hi_im_ep1k187]

@@HkFinn83 it's not 'sustainable' it's necessary to actually save a species so breeding programs make shit loads out of an essentially useless animal.

[@HkFinn83]

@@hi_im_ep1k187 I’ve heard a lot of chubby Americans who like shooting exotic animals say that. Not many conservationists or Africans, weirdly.

[@FidelCattto]

@@HkFinn83 Then you're not talking to the right conservationists if they think leaving an old angry bull around to kill off younger ones is going to save the species instead of raffling off it's life to help fund more guards and land acquisition. There are also a lot of local tribes in Africa that would love for there to be less elephants and rhinos as they destroy crops, compete with cattle, and sometimes kill people. Also as he said in the video local groups are certainly willing to kill them for their own gain without funding conservation

[@saifulbrine2391]

Paraceratherium is one of my favorite mammal,not only u can carry a lots of item with it but can also *build a platform on top of it and a mounted minigun*

[@theretardationnation5888]

Yeah but I rather put a cannon on it😈

[@vicmanvalfre96]

Ah, another ARK player...

[@NA-AN]

But can it fly tho. This comment was made by quezt gang.

[@levitschetter5288]

Laughs in castle on top of Sauropod

[@QuigleTheGnome]

Do you play modded Rimworld?

[@misskate3815]

I could not believe that you contextualized the poverty that drives poaching. That was the first time I’d ever heard a science youtuber do that. I’m def subscribing. Wow.

[@TheRPGentleman]

Don't care. I still hope the poachers are shot and killed. Poverty smoverty.

[@hauthesun]

@@TheRPGentleman tf is wrong with you

[@thecallankids4718]

@@hauthesun couldn't have said it better myself lmao

[@TheRPGentleman]

@@hauthesun Rhinos serve a purpose. Poachers do not. I say shoot to kill and I'm glad there are park rangers that do. You're just another softy.

[@hauthesun]

@@TheRPGentleman If we are talking practically, do Rhinos serve the economy? No. Besides that, poaching will never be solved if you don't solve poverty; which is why you are blind sighted.

[@SurikatMeerkat]

I'm Afrikaans, you almost got the "wyd" pronounciation correct. If you ever want help in the future, message me. I'll be more than happy to assist in any way I can. I went to look at some white rhinos last week during a short holiday trip. They are quite social in their groups as well and love playing in mud.

[@precisionhaze6594]

No one cares lol

[@DavidFoundCo]

@@precisionhaze6594 you did, that’s why you replied

[@purachinachinchin]

@@precisionhaze6594 ouf you picked the wrong side

[@precisionhaze6594]

Lmao. You kids are so butthurt. It's honestly hilarious

[@shammy7042]

@@precisionhaze6594 No one cares lol

[@carstenszjanecek]

I love you r videos man, in fact im an Indonesian living on Java island. and yes the protected tip of Java where the Rhinos are located are very hard to reach. its in ujung kulon, and they installed many jungle bridge there, for tourism purpose that doesnt bother the habitat. it keeps the poachers away, since there are many people watching the forest...

[@ericbosken3114]

It is also technically in a Sundanese rather than Javanese part of the island (though this relates more to human language & culture rather than zoology)

[@carstenszjanecek]

@@ericbosken3114 Sunda is more to the east of Java. This is on the far side of the island. Well Java Island has so many tibes and cultures. So technically even Sundanese is Javanese native. But it is its own tribe, even "Javanese" people has so many different tribes and languages.

[@ericbosken3114]

@@carstenszjanecek I find that confusing because students in Jawa Barat & Banten provinces learn Bahasa Sunda in school, whereas students in Jawa Timur (and basically anywhere east of Cirebon) learn Basa Jawa in school. The major Sundanese parts of Java are mostly in the west - ie: Puncak and Bandung, and the Sunda Strait borders on the westernmost part of the island.

[@carstenszjanecek]

@@ericbosken3114 Yeh but Ujung Kulon, the name itself came from East Javan language. It's close to Banten, but the indigenous people there are not Sundanese decendants.

[@ericbosken3114]

@@carstenszjanecek I stand corrected. The interplay of cultures here continues to confuse me after all these years!

[@ghauld786]

i think its great that you mentioned, even if only briefly, that poverty is often connected to poaching. Like poaching is absolutely a humanitarian issue too, and in order to stop poaching long term the communities of people living near nature and these animals need to be helped too

[@GlobalOutcast]

Giving these people money or improving their way of life isnt gonna stop a man from trying to get nearly a quarter of a million dollars by shooting a rino and taking its horn. Human greed is a very stong incentive for people

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@GlobalOutcast yes it will stop the vast majority of poachers, you may not realize this but there's also a huge risk for the poacher in going after rhinos, I mean they could literally be killed by either the rangers protecting the rhino or the rhino itself, not to mention how much of hassle it would be to get it out of the country. So most poachers are just not going to risk all that IF they actually have a decent standard of living where they aren't living in abject poverty wondering how they will feed their families. Just think about it, why do 99% of people with a stable income don't go around robbing and stealing? They would make more money in the short term by doing so, but they don't because the risk far outweighs the gain when you already have a stable source of money, enough to care for your needs.

[@chaptap8376]

@@GlobalOutcast A rhino getting shot and getting a man a quarter million dollars is the best use the rhino has in the world lol what you think the rhino is contributing to society by shitting in the mud? hahahaha

[@prixe12]

@@GlobalOutcast it won't stop all of them but it'll stop a lot more of them. Funny thing about humans when their quality of life goes up crime usually goes down

[@grungeisdead8998]

Poaching wouldn't "end" it would just be less common ivory is expensive as fuck and a makes poachers alot of money elephant tusk and rhino's horn are highly sought after in China and that's where black market poached animal products are sold

[@indyreno2933]

Narrow-Nosed Rhinos (genus Stephanorhinus) and Woolly Rhinos (genus Coelodonta) are most closely related to each other, they also happen to have become extinct, while both genera became extinct, this did not mean they are ancestors of modern rhinos, but instead were nestled within modern rhino lineages, Diceros, which includes the black rhino and Ceratotherium, which contains the white rhino, Rhinoceros, also known as the asian one-horned rhinos, that contain the only two extant rhino species with only one horn on their snouts are the most distantly related from all the other groups, meaning that many species of living rhino are more closely related to the extinct narrow-nosed rhinos and woolly rhinos than they are to the modern one-horned rhinos, surprisingly, the closest living relative of the narrow-nosed rhinos and woolly rhinos are in fact the smallest living rhino species, which is the sumatran rhino, which is Asia's only living rhino with two horns.

[@MunfyKun]

Super cool video, loved learning from it. Your edits were also hilarious, thanks for those additions

[@TheBudgetMuseum]

thank you!

[@pedrocampos691]

super cool.

[@johntodd3910]

@@TheBudgetMuseum can you do a video on wildebeests hartebeests and their relatives

[@laudercarame7265]

Your videos are informative, funny and best of all show genuine concern and promote awareness for our dwindling wildlife populations. Already subbed, hope you get more..

[@horatiocarillo1068]

He's one of my new favourite youtubers up there with tier zoo and hood nature (casual geographic)

[@danielledean4881]

Love casual geographic too! Will check out tier zoo.

[@M1N1molo]

​@@danielledean4881casual geo himself loves tierzoo and leaves comments on his channel occasionally. He even makes video game references in videos based on tierzoo's channel. On the snake tier list he commented "Weird not seeing my ex on here..."

[@TotalBS]

Afrikaans speaker here. In Afrikaans the white rhino is called "witrenoster" which translates to... well; white rhino. I've personally never heard the story of wyd (wide) being the origin, but I guess it's a possibility EDIT: Side note on poaching and conservation efforts. Something quite small that really shows how dire the situation is, is found in the Kruger National Park's map/information booklets. These booklets also state how many of each animal live in the park, except for rhinos. Their number is kept a secret in order to protect them. It's really a shame that a park as big and successful as Kruger park still runs the risk of having their rhinos killed, despite all the effort they put into protecting them. Side side note: It is obviously important to talk about and fight against the poaching of endangered species, but it's also important to fight against poaching in general. Up until not too long ago, Elephants were near extinction as well. Their numbers have grown over the past few years, but they're still low. It's a sad reality of many animals. Poaching is a big problem in South Africa, and Africa as a whole. I can really only speak about South Africa, as that's where I live. Poaching is out of control. From major wildlife parks and conservations all the way down to small individual farms. On our farm we routinely have to walk through the farm to remove traps. I'm talking about 50+ traps a week at times; and it's just a small farm, half of it being agricultural at that.

[@aliyahabrahams]

I'm glad you made the point that poverty plays a part in poaching. I think many people demonise poachers, painting them as horrible people, when many of them are really just acting out of desperation to feed themselves, and oftentimes their families, too.

[@bebetterthanthepersonyouwe5857]

When I was doing a research project on gorillas I realized most of the poachers are actually the poor trying to make a living and not some random guy trying to make money off of it.

[@bobtheball5384]

@@bebetterthanthepersonyouwe5857 I think media sometimes has a part to play when it comes to the interpretation of poachers. Idk about you but I had always assumed that poachers were usually rich people who poach animals just for sport and or fun.

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

So its good to extinct an whole species for money? 😂

[@kennethsatria6607]

@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 Nobody said that.

[@LilLion652]

@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 no one said that you are literally the only one who said that what I think the person was implying is that we should deal with poverty first that way poaching can stop and species can start to rebound

[@rageraptor7127]

Truely the triceratops of our time (with differing behavior of course)

[@spoopbagoot4628]

they do look somewhat similar

[@wantedwario2621]

Idk, i would say they pry act the same in most aspects.

[@joshuakhaos4451]

Triceratops probably was no different than a Rhino in terms of the way they behaved outside of being heard animals. Its funny how many animals have come and gone, Yet so many always take up the same roles and wind up looking rather similar despite being nothing alike

[@edpoolwilson9522]

One of the best long-term solutions is probably to educate former poachers and give them jobs protecting the rhinos they used to hunt. This both gives more protection to rhino populations and gives impoverished people who would otherwise turn to poaching a steady income. In most cases, the best solutions for anti-poaching come from actually helping the people in the area so they don't have to turn to poaching in the first place.

[@belisarius6949]

Execute poachers. Skin them. Hang their heads over warm fires.

[@edpoolwilson9522]

@@belisarius6949 You do realize that we're talking about real human people with families and shit, right?

[@magmat0585]

@@belisarius6949 they already kill poachers. Look into what goes into anti-poaching, rangers are usually armed with military rifles, because if they happen upon poachers its kill or be killed.

[@cdubsoptional7849]

Horrifyingly depraved punishments such as flaying, can be very effective at achieving certain goals. Just ask the Assyrians. But effective doesn't equate to best practices. How to skin someone alive shouldn't be part of the institutional knowledge of any group of healthy, righteous people, who are trying to confront the terrifying challenges of the world, without losing their own humanity. So ok, let's say a poacher gets caught, and it's time to skin him. Are you asking for volunteers? And anyone who volunteers for that job, you're telling me you want to be associated with that person? That's who you want on your team? And if there are no volunteers, are you going to order someone who doesn't want to do this disgusting act, to do it? Are you going to do it publicly, round up all the locals, make everyone watch? If all the adults are there, they'll have to bring the kids with them. Doing any of these things is not only morally wrong, it's bad strategy in the long run. You won't make people afraid of killing rhinos, you'll make them hate you, and maybe they'll just kill even more rhinos to spite you, but at least then you'll have more people to skin! To be clear, killing poachers in gun battles or sentencing them to death and carrying said sentence out in a non gratuitous way that doesn't demean and dehumanize everyone involved, that's not what I'm talking about. What I am saying is that retribution is not justice. Would you skin a rhino alive if it trampled your mother to death? Of course not! But maybe you'd have to put that rhino down, but hopefully you wouldn't feel good about it. I'm not attacking your passion for this issue, nor am I belittling your desire to inflict punishment on poachers. I just think you should consider the ramifications of what you're advocating. On a final note, there's a video from years ago of a man being whipped to death, supposedly filmed during the Russian invasion of the Crimea. When it popped up on twitter and facebook, every upload had a different title. The victim was described as being a drug dealer, a pedophile, a traitor to the Russian paras, a traitor to the Ukrainian paras, etc. So with no way to know for sure if this guy was guilty of anything, what you saw was a man chained to a post being whipped to death with electrical chords by guys in masks who were laughing and drinking. I don't think there's any amount of context that makes what they did to that guy, ok. If you can watch that kind of brutality, and give it a thumbs up, as long as it happened to the right person, someone who you think deserves it, I think that's something worth reflecting on. Are you positive that this is who you are and what you stand for?

[@abeliiibecerra5281]

@@edpoolwilson9522 you do realize poachers are POS who hack off rhino horns with chainsaws while the animal is sometime alive and left to rott once the horn is removed. Starving family my ass when they leave all that meat to decompose.

[@bobbyknuckles6380]

If it’s able to save the rhinos i’m down to remove poverty from Africa. Sounds like a good trade to me.

[@mann_man8556]

4:57 Then why don’t we just rename Black Rhinos Hook Lipped Rhinos and White Rhinos Wide Lipped or Square Lipped Rhinos?

[@j.j.hector735]

Because it sounds cooler and also it’s really difficult to change common names, especially ones with names that stuck on for a while

[@mann_man8556]

@@j.j.hector735 I don’t think those names sound good but if you like them that’s cool.Also you’re right about the second part there.

[@mooncellnpc5413]

Ah yes the ancient propane tank

[@josgretf2800]

Roman Senator Hankus Hillius was very fond of them.

[@niharg2011]

You should probably read up on conservation of the Indian Rhino, it had gotten really bad here for the Rhinos but they made a huge comeback in the recent decades and now seem to have a stable population also yes There's a shoot on sight notice against Poachers, Rangers killed more Poachers than Poachers killed Rhinos here in India in the last few years

[@Lonely_4_Ever]

"Moving rhinos to Australia" Australian ecosystem: We are fucked

[@Sebi076]

Your channel is expanding quite a lot, last time i saw your sub count it was smaller than mine

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

Rhinos are the ultimate mammal, it literally took guns, climate change and ecosystem collapses to even make a dent in their diversity. And although they might not be as resilient now, they are still some of the best mammals out there.

[@malharmazumdar3731]

ive seen indian rhinoceri, in a place called kazranga in india. a few years ago you would have a hard time finding them, but now if yougo to kaziranga you will see them everywhere. i am glad at least some of these magnificent creatures are making a comeback :)

[@pedrocampos1787]

A few.

[@oshkeet]

0:06 with regard to the 'inescapeable cage' meme. Its BABY rhino who runs thru the bars. The barrier is intended to keep adult rhinos in. It pays to still have something the width of a human able to get through easily (and possibly examine the babies without the parents getting huffy next to you).

[@stormisuedonym4599]

Sure, but it's still cute and funny to watch the little guy frolic right out.

[@draconismaximus4102]

Rhinos are definitely chaotic good, hippos on the other hand…

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

but who would win in a fight?

[@eybaza6018]

@@fumomofumosarum5893 Rhinos

[@TubbyTarchia]

What a good watch! I've been very interested in these fascinating animals recently and this was the perfect way to learn more about them + great humor. Thank you for this video!

[@SoundsEpicMusic]

Man, your channel is growing so fast dude. Proud of u dude.

[@hannahbrown2728]

KZbin gave me your stupid cryptid video first but I am certainly loving all your vids! Ive already subscribed, I really enjoy your delivery overall and especially the jokes. Its the kind of monotone that just makes things like "You loud smelly human." that make me lol

[@orboakin8074]

I really enjoy your content; not just for the info but for the humor.

[@kayakat1869]

Rhinos are cool as hell.

[@creditsunknown7974]

"To move them to Australia" HAVENT WE LEARNEAD A THING FROM ALL THE ANIMALS WEVE ALREADY MOVED???

[@panq8904]

Exactly, I worked at a wildlife park in Australia, mfs are run ragged as hell already tryna get rid of invasive foxes, rabbits & camels. Many non-native pet species are very harshly banned as well. Aussie government aren't gonna risk the little unique native flora and fauna they have left for any damn Rhinos.

[@LoserKidMusic]

I love your videos and the way you talk. These are so calming somehow

[@curlyguy2790]

Wish we could hire poacher poachers

[@Eye_Exist]

rhinos most definitely are one of those creatures which we would view as we view like so many extinct megafauna - much cooler than the animals we have today.

[@CyclopsRat]

This channel is so underrated, I love your content!

[@carterwinn2088]

This is my new favorite channel

[@Paladinpal]

Because introducing species to Australia has never gone wrong

[@evry1sfriend619]

Because of how my sound system is set up, when you began singing the national anthem, it sounded like someone outside my house and it freaked me out. Then I listened to it again and in context, it made me laugh really hard. So thanks- for the scare and the laughs

[@AhriOfAstora]

Your content reminds me of Trey the Explainer and I immediately subbed.

[@josgretf2800]

I got the same vibe too! I wish Trey would upload more often.

[@jessicastevens9200]

All I've heard from people who've worked with rhinos say they're much more chill than the stereotype. (Unlike hippos, the murderous old flabs).

[@kennethsatria6607]

I think just being made of purely keratin doesnt make it- Not a Horn. Most animal horns are internally bone and then covered by keratin. And then triceratops' horns come right out of its skull and its all bone. Its still a horn.

[@raditz1101]

But Rhinos dont have a bone core

[@kennethsatria6607]

@@raditz1101 I guess that's true but it functions the same way and is closer to a horn than an antler so what else do we call it?

[@raditz1101]

@@kennethsatria6607 A Keratinus Protrusion? Limited research on my end pulls up Ceros as a name but that literally means horn lmao

[@turbulanceeco1a246]

So, am I the only one thinking maybe moving another invasive species to Australia is a terrible idea?

[@stormisuedonym4599]

No, but it's not like rhinos are r-type breeders. It's hard to find an invasive K-selected species.

[@victory8928]

Oh my god, so the move to Australia idea will be a bad idea, because of well quite simply. Australia has a mega invasive species issue, adding tanks that literally cannot be killed by anything that would eat them there and them being rhinos is gonna have some bad results in Australia and will be like the rabbit situation in Australia in their more native ranges they are more threatened but the damage they do in the continent is massive

[@josgretf2800]

Yeah but its a lot easer to track the rhinos vs pigs or rabbits.

[@rageraptor7127]

We should make a hit list for anyone who kills a rhino. Make it just as valuable to kill a poacher and their associates as it is to kill the rhino. I mean it won’t fix the problem. But will keep poaching much lower because now people will scramble to hunt down the poachers themselves rather than the rhino. Also offer people money to protect the reserve and inform of any suspicious activity.

[@marcinkopycki1918]

It creates an issue where people would frame or force others to kill them, just to get a bounty.

[@doggo7078]

@@marcinkopycki1918 not if a picture of their face is made while they are caught red-handed

[@hangfire5944]

thats a terrible idea. most poachers do it because they wont get enough money to support their families with any other job.

[@rageraptor7127]

@@hangfire5944 and that somehow justifies committing a crime. I mean sure it’s ok to forgive them for doing it and giving them a chance to redeem themselves. But giving them mercy for such an extremely violent action also sets a president that nothing will be done to those who violate laws and essential rules. In addition it will also only make it even harder to save the species in question. Plus it isn’t like their committing a small crime like shoplifting. Their literally going out and killing a wild animal for money. Which I can understand. But again showing mercy means the extinction of the wild animals and potentially their entire ecosystem. Which in turn also means their community as a whole probably won’t have as much funding from foreign places. Heck the only reason anyone even acknowledges they exist. Is because they are hunting the wild animals and then people are willing to throw money their way for basic supplies. (I mean people could pay to teach them skills and build institutions but let’s be honest. Their governments are just as part of the issue as we and everyone else are. We would need cooperation from all parties and doing that would take time. Time neither the wild animals nor the people of those affected areas have. )

[@rageraptor7127]

@@marcinkopycki1918 I agree however there are many ways around it. Like specifying who actually has a bounty through evidence and pictures. Also I’m not so sure it would be that easy to frame someone and say they took down a multi ton animal. I mean if you do that and your living in those situations. It means you have access to the means to actually hunt the animal. In other words I don’t think it would be that easy to hide evidence of an actual poacher unless your already in a group that specializes in doing that.

[@ropace37]

This is by far your best work in my opinion. Wherever WE are the cause of such devastating events, WE will have to be the solution for it to be effective. #savetheunicorn

[@ZIEIaou]

yeah lets bring rhinos to australia. its not like introducing a foreign species into that particular has ever proven to be a bad idea

[@myopinionbetter4287]

Meh rhinos can't reproduce fast enough to get out of hand. And in fact Introducing mega fauna to environments would be immensely helpful. Like elephants in America would really help the ecology. Remember that these ecosystems had superfauna just 10000 years ago. Which in geological terms was a blink ago.

[@joshuakhaos4451]

@@myopinionbetter4287 We have a few Elephant sanctuaries here in america, So in a way. We already have brought them back. But they arent free.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

not even comparable to the species accidentally introduced before, first you're not going to lose track of a goddamn rhino, second they reproduce very slowly (whole reason they are nearly extinct) and third they would occupy a niche that nothing has occupied in Australia in 10,000 years it would be beneficial to the ecology of the continent to have a megafaunal animal back in the ecocsytem.

[@BalloonTombs]

@@Dell-ol6hb Rhinos in Australia: Diprotodon 2.0

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Let them stomp the cane toads!

[@jordandickinson5996]

farming. make it legal to farm rhinos

[@raymondelliott1546]

They get killed out of spite, well that just makes me really fucking angry!!!!!!

[@artemesiagentileschini7348]

The tapir you said of the americas are Malayan tapirs of Sundaland, Asia.

[@stevenhall8964]

I'm glad someone else besides me noticed that, I already posted how there are 2 kinds of Tapir one in Asia and one in Central and South America, but I forgot to mention that the photo he showed while saying Tapirs are from the Americas, was a photo of an Asian Tapir!

[@UninstalledGamer]

1:19 "From the Americas" *Shows an image of a Malayan Tapir which is native to Southeast Asia*

[@Otone360]

Rhino’s, exactly what Australia is missing 😅

[@TheSulross]

"so do you still contend that that was just a fingernail that just impaled you?"

[@calebkuric5222]

Here's a completely uneducated, random thought that just popped into my head after watching this. If rhinos are a culturally sought natural resource, why not try making a rhino farm?

[@MrTigracho]

How this farm would be? Like a traditional farm? Or just a reserve?

[@calebkuric5222]

@@MrTigracho I really have no idea how anything like this would actually be accomplished, but hypothetically both. Like, it's very long term, but so are all these other solutions. This way you are helping the population problem, and the poaching problem by saturating the market with farmed rhino horns. Again, this is just a hypothetical random idea, I don't really know what I'm talking about, how this would work, or if I'm way off, but I thought I'd share it anyway. lol

[@taggymcshaggy6383]

@@calebkuric5222 animals can only be properly farmed if they are domesticated(might be tge wrong word), you can only do that with animals with a social structure, for example dogs or cows

[@capn_toad]

it's a cool concept, but as explained in this video, rhinos are. notoriously difficult to work with, often being downright dangerous.

[@Xphyzeek]

I've only ever seen a blue rhino, which is every time I grill.

[@m.alejandramartinez9357]

I've never laughed so hard that I did in this vid. Absolutely love your humor and voice. ❤️

[@zThisPlay]

1:42 consider yourself forehorned

[@XxXxXxjonXxXxXxX]

Give me houseing food and wifi and i will live wherever and hunt poachers gladly 👍🏽

[@agisuru]

To be fair, the fact rhinos are killed by other rhinos so frequently might be related to the fact that nothing much is even capable of killing an adult rhino

[@jasondh7377]

"Even the ancient propane tank." Hilarious!🤣

[@joshuapatrick682]

No one talks about how rhinos have the oddest shaped heads…seriously what is that?

[@connorhalleck2895]

wide rhino is my main takeaway from this video

[@kilianjuraschek8576]

Did you know that this "artist depiction of the natural armor" was actually drawn just by stories the artist (Dürer) has been told? He never saw a rhino himself.

[@mapache-ehcapam]

A video about cetaceans and their intelligence would be good

[@adamevaskevich5528]

Today I learned that a herd of Rhinos are also called a Crash

[@skunkbear342]

Very interesting!

[@aeyelashbug6311]

Ironic to say rhino horns aren't real horns because they're made of keratin considering the name keratin literally comes from the Greek word _keras_ which means horn. Also moving rhinos to Australia would probably kill all other large herbivores there because they would be the first large placental mammals there

[@M1N1molo]

No, they wouldn't. They would fill an entirely different niche, the one of the extinct Australian megafauna. Also, they couldn't build a large population there. They breed too slow and would be very easy to monitor.

[@aeyelashbug6311]

@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD Depending on the species of rhino they would fill the same niche as the red kangaroo and maybe smaller kangaroos as well

[@M1N1molo]

@@aeyelashbug6311 yeah good point I was only thinking of white and black rhinos

[@iNostraD]

It’s 5:44am, I’m watching a video about rhinos from an informative channel with a good sense of humor, instant sub.

[@altarush]

I like that rhino calf sneaking up on that guy talking.

[@starkolurodon]

nobody: black rhino: "a shape! KILL IT!"

[@launch4]

Wait, if a Rhino's horn isn't a horn cause it's made of ceratin, then what are true horns made of?

[@tungsten8332]

Bone which is calcium

[@merielwehner6922]

this was an excellent video

[@junbertbacaltos5811]

I love your channel!

[@Tymdek]

To the nerds, that were mentioned in the vid: Guess what actual horns are made out of: Yes, keratin. Rhinos just don't have a bone core to their horns.

[@erikm8372]

What is that clip of David Icke with the escaping baby rhino??

[@amniotic105]

Thanks! 👍

[@mohammedalbusaidi1425]

Well, one solution that proved successful was the South African rhino farms, basically farming the horns while providing a safe environment for them and also job opportunities to who might’ve been thinking of poaching, also it’s a great way to create a legal market for rhino horns which means that the illegal market would be reduced and the incentive behind poaching would be less tempting. It’s proved it’s success but, animal rights groups condemned the practice.

[@MrKellG]

Imagine an Australian RINO? The the monster movies about them would run wild 😜😜

[@djangojihadl1076]

Great vid

[@refrigatoreqtv1578]

5:30 the left rhino looks happy to be in the video and the right one just remembered his time in 'nam

[@kilianjuraschek8576]

Btw. that whole white/black rhino confusion doesnt exist, theyre called Spitzmaul- (pointy mouth) and Breitmaul- (wide mouth) rhino here

[@GabrielF39]

the best solution in my opinion is to breed rhinos for their horns, after all if you devalue rhino horns the incentive to poach them is gone plus if they are bred that would obviously add more rhinos to the population

[@stormisuedonym4599]

There is at least one person trying to do that right now. He maintains a breeding herd and apparently has a warehouse full of horns from the rhinos he's bred. They cut off the rhino's horns relatively humanely and let them regrow. It's an example of using economics and the private sector to thwart poaching, and is being stymied by the well-intentioned laws designed to protect rhinos.

[@cadenz7719]

Move the African species to Australia and the Asian one to the Amazon.

[@NA-AN]

Even though the Amazon is also getting fucked... yeah, good idea

[@mondraymondo]

I freaking adore rhinos!! ❤ more than elephants even Such underrated mega beast

[@kayd3nisdumb659]

This uhhhh helped with my school project so thanks random person on the Internet

[@coinwater8511]

Keratin also makes up bird beaks. I like to think of the "horn" as a big ole bird beak😂

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

all horns are - at least in part , made of keratin

[@catwithbutterfly379]

Isn't it cool that 3 rhino species coexisted in northeast India

[@dragoon8675]

Great title creativity.

[@ajhoward8888]

To avoid the genetic bottleneck which will likely endanger the survival of all of the smaller subspecies groups of Rhino, I think we should stop thinking about them as precious and start attempting to cross breed them in captive breeding programs. This all hinges on whether speciation events have taken place. But if we actually can shake up their respective gene pools, we might be able to save their populations as a whole. The only real question is: What are we going to call the new rhinos we create? I was thinking Gray Rhinos...but that's a little on the nose. How about The Rainbow Unicorns? 🦄

[@raditz1101]

Thats impossible theyre all too far from one another to produce fertile offspring. Like a Donkey and a Horse

[@raditz1101]

Just saw you said subspecies lmao

[@stevenhall8964]

There are 2 kinds of Tapir, one in Asia and one in Central and South America.

[@somuchsoul3041]

Where there’s more then 2 species but they are in only two different places.

[@douchmush9861]

I have visited south africa and met beautiful rhino named Maxine, week after i came home her death by poachers was announced

[@fisharmor]

The guaranteed answer is the one nobody will ever agree to. Allow people to farm them for their horns. Because cows and chickens will never go extinct.

[@prixe12]

That won't work A. Rhinos are way bigger than either of those species and you'd go bankrupt trying to feed them B. Rhinos reproduce very slowly and it takes even longer for them to reach sexual maturity. So to grow a horn you'd have to what maybe a decade.

[@fisharmor]

@@prixe12 Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you had already tried it. When did you have your Rhino farm?

[@tungsten8332]

I heard an attempt was made and it was successful, but was shut down due to the conservationists and activists.

[@sadisticbadger1287]

Anyone with that much money for a rhino horn should be smart enough to know that it has no medical effects whatsoever.

[@billbillson3129]

Ahhhh yes... The ancient sacred propane tank..

[@henryknows3756]

bro got me laughing in the first 6 seconds of the video, This is a certified vine moment.

[@ultimonx9152]

alternate solution Genetic engineering to replace a rhinos horn and make them no longer valuable. oh also a shit ton of armor plating and faster speed so most of the time the poachers will only realize that they dont want the horn until after their impaled on it.

[@kayland.5724]

The mysterious and historic propane tank and propane accessories

[@shig.bitz.3205]

One solution I've read about is anti-poaching special forces units. I know there's one run by the ACCF and another by the Royal British Legion. I have heard that there have been instances of these units in direct combat with poachers and I am unsure of the long term effects of these units. On paper it makes sense as a deterrent against poaching, but in reality I think the poverty and desperation that drives many of these poachers is just too great. They'll still risk getting shot to kill these animals as they feel they have no other option. It's a sad situation and I think protecting some species in captivity may be the best way to ensure their survival. I just don't see the driving forces behind poaching changing much any time soon.