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Rhino Horn: Expensive But Worthless

Rhino “cures” —  Something as expensive as gold, like the horn of a rhinoceros used for Traditional Chinese Medicine, might seem valuable, but it has no medicinal properties. The belief that rhino horns are a great cure, however, is largely responsible for illegal rhino poaching, which results in a reduction in the rhinoceros population by 90% in the last 40 years.

Read on to learn why the horn will not cure your ailments, and the superstition is an atrocity.

 

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