Why in Africa they hang rhinos by their legs and ride in a helicopter (6 photos + 1 video)

In Africa, you can see a flying rhinoceros, and this does not surprise anyone.





In Africa, sometimes you can observe a very strange picture: helicopter upside down carries a huge rhinoceros tied to legs. From the outside it looks cruel, but in reality it's not like that. seems. Unfortunately, this is one of the few ways to save the population. these animals.



Black rhinos are endangered. In the 1960s years, there were 13.5 thousand animals on the entire continent, but on today their number does not exceed 3.5 thousand individuals. Such catastrophic population decline has occurred due to poaching. Horn rhinoceros is considered in folk medicine as a miracle cure, it is because of this that animals have been hunted for decades. Today the cost of one horn can reach a million dollars, so poachers run rampant in hopes of getting rich quick.





Since the animal population has been greatly reduced, inbreeding has become another problem among them. Due to interbreeding of related individuals resulting in diseased and genetically weak offspring.



The only way to help avoid such close ties is to send the rhinoceros to another herd.

It can be difficult for rhinos to get to another herd: First, the herds are often small and far apart. Secondly, the territory of the continent is very fragmented human activity, so the area where the herd lives, is constantly decreasing. For this reason, human help is needed: people themselves began to transport animals from one herd to another.



At the same time, animal rights activists considered various methods of transportation rhinos. For example, the animal was euthanized and loaded into a car or container, and then delivered to another herd. Alas, such trips turned out to be dangerous: rhinos were often injured on the way. As a result, experts found the safest way to transport such a huge animal - by air.



See how this happens in the video below.