Znanstvenici u rogove nosoroga injektirali niske doze radioaktivnosti da bi lakše ulovili krivolovce

TOPSHOT - A sedated rhinoceros lies unconscious as professor James Larkin (R) from the University of the Witwatersrand‘s Radiation and Health Physics Unit (RHPU) uses a can of identification spray (DataDot) after carefully implanting dosed and calculated radioisotopes into it’s horns along with other Rhisotope Project members at an undisclosed location in the Waterbury UNESCO biosphere in Mokopane on June 25, 2024. South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.
The country is home to a large majority of the world‘s rhinos and a hotspot for poaching, which is driven by demand from Asia, where horns are used in traditional medicine for their supposed therapeutic effect. At the Limpopo rhino orphanage in the Waterberg area, northeast of the country, a few of the thick-skinned herbivores grazed in the low savannah. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP)