Singapore Zoo aims to educate visitors about plight of rhinos, at risk of extinction
Junior animal management officer Matthias Quek helping Cedric Tan from Odyssey the Global Preschool feed Shova, the rhino, at the Singapore Zoo. Sept 22 is World Rhino Day.
Imagine being massacred for your nails.
This is the reality facing rhinos today. They are being poached to the edge of extinction for their horns.
"People consuming rhino horns may as well be eating... fingernails as the two are made of the same material," said a spokesman for Wildlife Reserves Singapore, which runs the Singapore Zoo.
Hair, feathers, hoofs, claws and horns are all made up of a fibrous protein called keratin.
~News courtesy of Straits Times~
Junior animal management officer Matthias Quek helping Cedric Tan from Odyssey the Global Preschool feed Shova, the rhino, at the Singapore Zoo. Sept 22 is World Rhino Day.
Imagine being massacred for your nails.
This is the reality facing rhinos today. They are being poached to the edge of extinction for their horns.
"People consuming rhino horns may as well be eating... fingernails as the two are made of the same material," said a spokesman for Wildlife Reserves Singapore, which runs the Singapore Zoo.
Hair, feathers, hoofs, claws and horns are all made up of a fibrous protein called keratin.
~News courtesy of Straits Times~
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