Thursday, May 29, 2008

BBC News | “Rarest rhinoceros wrecks camera”


“The world’s rarest rhinoceros has been captured on film by a specially installed camera in the jungles of Java, Indonesia. But the female rhino, which was accompanied by a calf, promptly charged the camera, sending it flying. The animals are at severe risk of extinction, with only 60-70 animals left in the wild.” 
 Above: the Javan rhino mother charges the infrared camera, an attack that left researchers “baffled.” 
In earlier camera-attack news: A tiger in central Sumatra recently went on a ten-day spree of destruction that left three of WWF’s jungle camera traps in pieces.

BBC News | “Rarest rhinoceros wrecks camera”

“The world’s rarest rhinoceros has been captured on film by a specially installed camera in the jungles of Java, Indonesia. But the female rhino, which was accompanied by a calf, promptly charged the camera, sending it flying. The animals are at severe risk of extinction, with only 60-70 animals left in the wild.” 

 Above: the Javan rhino mother charges the infrared camera, an attack that left researchers “baffled.” 

In earlier camera-attack news: A tiger in central Sumatra recently went on a ten-day spree of destruction that left three of WWF’s jungle camera traps in pieces.