I was actually thinking of putting the ass of a rhino there, but I wanted to use my own photo. Besides, an anatomically correct rhino would've sucked. ;)
/Samuelf
This tile is from We are all being photomanipulated!
Tile Info
Comment:
Rhino
By: root88
Checked out at: September 04, 2001
Checked in at: September 04, 2001
Checkout tile:
In Context
Posts
Rhino2D
Re: Rhino2D
I tried to leave the edge so the person on the right couldn't be sure what it was. I was hoping it would blend into something that wasn't even an animal. Your blend looks really good though.
Sooo...
Is this your own photo or stock? :) I'd like to know if you've travelled to Africa to see one of the wonderful animals... poor guys are being hunted to extinction for that 4 foot horn on their snout. :/
Re: Sooo...
Took this photo myself last year on my trip to South Africa. It was amazing! And VERY cheap (other than the plane ticket). While on Safari (photo's only of course) I think I saw pretty much every animal in it's natural habitat that you can find in a zoo.
It is terrible what poachers do to the rhinos. They track them for days, kill them, then cut off the horn. They leave the body to rot because it is too heavy to take with them, and too much of a pain to sneak off of protected areas. (The penalty for poaching in SA is death) Rangers of protected areas started cutting off rhino horns while they are still alive so poachers would have no reason to kill them. The problem was, the poachers would track the rhino for days and see that it had no horn, then kill it so they wouldn't accidentally track the same one again. :(
It is terrible what poachers do to the rhinos. They track them for days, kill them, then cut off the horn. They leave the body to rot because it is too heavy to take with them, and too much of a pain to sneak off of protected areas. (The penalty for poaching in SA is death) Rangers of protected areas started cutting off rhino horns while they are still alive so poachers would have no reason to kill them. The problem was, the poachers would track the rhino for days and see that it had no horn, then kill it so they wouldn't accidentally track the same one again. :(