2006-08-22 10:31:59 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The value of rhino horn made it enormously profitable to poach rhinos and sell them on the black market. For example, in 1990, the two horns from a single black rhino brought as much as $50,000. Just like poaching for elephant ivory, poaching for rhino horn is simply too profitable for many subsistence farmers and herders to resist.
hope that answered your question.
2006-08-22 10:38:07 · answer #1 · answered by ~Compétences~ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hear in some cultures, rhino horn is considered a very desirable herbal medicine (for impotence, etc) and it is pure and simple economics that people poach rhinos -- if someone is willing to pay money for rhino horn, there will always a willing supplier. On the other hand, I have never heard that the consumption of human nails will help cure impotence, etc. So no one is willing to pay money to grind up human nails to make into an herbal Viagra!
2006-08-22 10:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by Brian C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A rhino's horn, if I remember correctly, is made of tightly-packed hair. I may be thinking of a differently animal, though. It may be that the human nail doesn't grow as quickly, nor does it look as cool as the rhino horn.
I really don't know.
2006-08-22 10:35:05 · answer #3 · answered by ildjb@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably coz it's easier than plucking off human nails. Ouch.
2006-08-22 10:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by BeC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They get a lot of money for them.
2006-08-22 11:15:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be silly to kill people for finger nails
2006-08-22 10:38:00 · answer #6 · answered by mike L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋