A Thread to Mourn the Vietnamese and Western Black Rhino

Good Night Sweet Prince
http://newswatch-media.nationalgeographic.com/files/2009/11/Javan-rhinoceros-camera-trap-photo-1.jpg
http://photos.mongabay.com/j/Vietnam-Javan-Rhino-by-camera-trap2.360.close.jpg
http://media.thestate.com/smedia/2011/10/25/00/52/755-BytXS.St.55.jpg

word to the wise: don't google image search these poor beasts unless you can handle seeing a lot of mauled carcasses.

damn, RIP species.

that's so sad :(

I hate people now

Sometimes don't mind people but then they go and do something like this

wtf humans

helluva run tho

fuck a holocene extinction

these dudes were (are, outside of vietnam) awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbqF4AA0Z8U

Is the vietnemese rhino completely extinct now then? Can it be argued that it had cone to its natural end? All species change and evolve, or die out. Admittedly we done it with our massive guns, but survival of the fittest and all that?

<Hides in a hole and waits to be ripped apart by angry wildlife lovers>

h8 people so much

That's not unreasonably phrased, to be fair. (xpost)

I mean, I disagree with it, but.

h8 people so much

― lex pretend, Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:25 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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no end is any more "natural" than any other. like a lot of extinctions this one was pointless and avoidable.

If only the Vietnamese rhino had evolved bulletproof skin more quickly. Or, you know, if more cultures would give up on these bullshit folk medicines that devastate other species.

That's what interests me. Rhinos with bullet proof skin, pandas with enormous killer teeth, cows with massive talons. Every animal should have the right to defend themselves. Rule of nature should be, if you can't kill it with hand to hand combat, you can't kill it at all. Thus beautiful Rhinos survive, we eat rabbit more often (could fight one of those easy) and animals have a better chance of defending themselves. Easy.

People obv mourn the extinction of the larger, imposing, or cuet life forms more naturally than the pipsqueaks and fuglies. What alarms me is that humans (and human activities in general) have plunged the earth into the, depending on how you count, fifth or sixth Great Extinction Event since life on earth began. This constitutes devestation on a truly grand scale, not just a rhino here or a tiger there, but several hundred species a year. Makes me want to crawl into a hole sometimes and just eat worms for the rest of my sad and lonesome days.

Until they become exstinct and you starve to death.

What?

Too miserable?

Hang on, what about all the new creatures and mammals that we discover every year? Does that kind of cancel it out?

I read somewhere (think it was new scientist) that there is a part of the ocean we haven't explored yet. With loads of new fish and stuff.

If discovering an animal's existence were tatamount to calling it into existence ex nihilo, then it would indeed offset the losses. But it is not the same thing.

Hang on, what about all the new creatures and mammals that we discover every year? Does that kind of cancel it out?

all different forms of life are worth respecting. sometimes that means making hard choices, like killing an invasive species so that the healthy diversity of a particular habitat isn't upset. i hope the various stewards of ilx will help me in this case by SBing user "captain rosie"

lol forks

captain rosie is like many newbie smartmouths who have veered into ilx space since it first began. The urge to chatter and amuse only themselves usually wears off, allowing them to become people instead of idiots. Too soon to tell which way this cap'n will jump.

feel so bad about an animal that was just out there living its damn life and gets hunted to extinction

where are the human-killing superviruses we were promised, it's time

Sorry to have spoilt your rhino thread with my comments. They were meant with honest curiosity and I was seeking only look at the issue from different angles, incite a bit of debate, perhaps an opinion, perhaps a bit tounge in cheek? Lol at forks, its the same thing.

Sheesh, you lot are so quick to get all uppity and angry at stuff. sb me Matt P! Do it for all those poor dead Rhinos in this godforsaken evil cruel world.

Seriously though, I think mindlessly killing a species to exstinction is barbaric and shows the utter stupidity and destruction mankind is capable of.

<hides in a hole, and waits to be ripped apart by the rest of ilx>

<rips the cap'n apart, eats his liver, how delicious>

Last and only cap'n on the planet. Now exstinct :'(

RIP

I feel buried alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prMFx7Q7EMk

Rhinos with bullet proof skin, pandas with enormous killer teeth, cows with massive talons. Every animal should have the right to defend themselves. Rule of nature should be, if you can't kill it with hand to hand combat, you can't kill it at all.

This is an interesting one tho. Before any animals figured out that using tools is helpful, species would gradually evolve until they could defend themselves, then the predator would evolve better tools etc. I guess these days we have to control the equilibrium instead of being subject to it.

h8 people so much

― lex pretend, Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:25 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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― The Reverend, Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

tbf to humans I think the vast majority are anti-Rhino mutilation.

otm, it's a tiny number of fucks doing all the extincting

Hang on, this rhino isn't even extinct! There's just not many left where it should be. It doesn't make it alright, and killing awesome animals for stupid reasons can't ever be justified, but at least the poor creature hasn't been completely killed off.

It's the Vietnamese subspecies that's extinct, but not the species.

NotExtinctEnough

Sadly, thread requires an addition to the title and my DN is ironic.
http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1112-rip_western_black_rhino.html

All of the world's remaining rhino species are considered at risk of extinction. All are threatened by the rhino horn trade.
The next rhino likely to go extinct is the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), a central African subspecies of white rhino. The Javan rhino is meanwhile down to less than 40 individuals in Sumatra's Ujung Kulon National Park.