R.I.P Spencer
I just looked up the words “EPIC” and “FAIL” in the dictionary, and would you know, this story was listed underneath each description. Rhino Rescue Project, a South African conservation group demonstrating an anti-poaching method for reporters yesterday, accidentally killed the rhinoceros they were using in the demonstration.
The rhino, named Spencer, went into convulsions and died after he was shot with a tranquilizer dart in front of a crush of TV cameras and photographers who had been invited to document an operation to insert a poison capsule into his horn.
Rhino Rescue Project spokeswoman Lorinda Hern:
The rhino had an unfortunate reaction to the anesthesia. Every time you dart a rhino, you take a risk that the rhino might not wake up and unfortunately today was one of those days. It’s sad for us; it’s the loss of another animal. It’s a death that I still chalk up to poaching.
[Source: MSNBC]
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