Professor Fritz Vollrath from Oxford’s Department of Zoology has published a study which gives instructions on how to create fake rhino horn. Spoiler alert: the horn isn’t really a horn and is actually a tuft of hair that grows on the rhino’s nose. He joins Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week to share his methods and reasons for attempting to fabricate the rhino horn and destabilise a market which places a high price on the perceived mystical properties of this toughened tuft of hair and in the process threatens the survival of the rhino.
Download the full programme, Start the Week, ‘Animals and Us’, BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b4px
Read more about the story: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-11-08-creating-fake-rhino-horn-horse-hair-help-save-endangered-rhino

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