Boy are those horny Chinese in for a shock! For centuries they have looked at rhinos and thought; "Bruiser of a beast, big balls, I'm having a bit of that," and promptly nicked their horns.
They happily convinced themselves that a rhino horn was just the job for their flagging sex lives. Never mind that it couldn't possibly work, or that the animals suffered and died and now risk extinction. It was all worth it for a far-eastern stiffie.
Now though the risk has swung the other way. Anyone touching or taking rhino horn is likely to end up a stiff themselves, dead as the dumb creatures they exploited. The horns have been injected with deadly poison, harmless to the rhino, but a horrible, painful end to the poachers and partakers.
So that should be rhino horn off the menu for good. The ignorant will have to find something else. They could chew their own fingernails - made of exactly the same stuff as horn. Well done the game reserve managers who took this step as a last resort. It is, for the rhino.
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