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De-horning black rhinos is changing their behaviour

NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT REMOVING the horns of black rhinos to make them less attractive to poachers is reducing their territory sizes and making them less sociable with each other.

The study, published in, found that de-horned South African rhinos have home ranges that are 45 per cent smaller than those of intact animals, and that they were 37 per cent less likely to engage in social interactions.

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