Rhinos famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways
-- Ashley Purdy -
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
-- Helen Fisher -
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
-- Jared Diamond -
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
-- Jared Diamond -
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
-- Julius Nyerere -
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.
-- Mark Carwardine -
The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.
-- Mark Carwardine -
Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.
-- Paul Theroux -
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.
-- Patrick Bergin -
The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
-- Yaya Toure -
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
-- Yaya Toure -
In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.
-- Paul George -
All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.
-- Vince Staples