24 March, 2017

The Living Dinosaur

What has horns, a small brain, and has been around for 50 million years?  The white rhinoceros.  The white rhinoceros “rhino for short” lives in South and East Africa.  They roam in groups called a crash in grasslands and floodplains.  These 5,000 pound animals are herbivores meaning they are plant eaters.  There diet is eating leaves, and fruit off branches.  Sadly these 6 foot tall dinosaurs are going extinct!  Poachers are what you call them.  They kill the rhinos for their horns.  From my point of view it’s a terrible thing to kill a whole animal just for their horns.  It is made of a substance called keratin that is found in our nails and hair.  People grind up the horn to use it in powder for medicine, brewed in tea, and are even used as trophies.  As I have noted killing an animal for these things is not worth it.  What do you think about these dinosaurs?

2 comments:

  1. Great first sentence...a solid hook!

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  2. I think it’s sad that rhinos are going toward extinction. And to be killed for something that we have on us ourselves. I know that it sounds gross to drink filled nails in tea, but think of what the rhinos think of us. Insane. But on the other hand, it would have been nice to have some solid facts. For example : in 2014 alone, 1215 rhinos were killed.

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