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Rhisotope Project
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- South African scientists injected radioactive material into live rhinoceros’ horns to make them easier to detect at border posts.
- They have drilled a small hole into the horn, hammered in the radioisotope, and finished off by spraying 11,000 microdots over the horn.
- This pioneering project is aimed at curbing poaching.
- This country is home to a large majority of the world’s rhinoceroses.
- The radioactive material would “render the horn useless... essentially poisonous” for human consumption.
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