TyrantGojira

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yes, there are many things cursed, rhino-ways!

for instance! rhino hearing?

EXCELLENT

rhino sense of smell?

FANTASTIC

rhino vision?

ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT

rhino eyesight is is so short-range that they can't really make out any objects more than about ninety feet away, and details just straight-up elude them!

that's okay though, because if you're a rhino you can always just put your head down and charge any suspicious blurs in your vicinity, and as long as they're smaller than an elephant, you're good :)

This guy in the photo wandered into known poaching areas, and they had to airlift him to safety ASAP

They need to be transported upside down because were they in a harness, the pressure on their rib cage would crush and damage the lungs (potentially fatally). The alternative is to put them on stretchers like this:

However it takes ~30 minutes to secure a rhino to a stretcher, meaning they need to be knocked out for far longer, and the anaesthetics used can cause either respiratory depression (breathing suppression - less common) or hypoxemia (low blood oxygen - more common) - this is where being suspended upside down actually helps!

A study was done in 2015 to compare sideways lying (like on the stretcher) to upside-down suspension that showed that being upside down actually increases blood oxygen levels as it stretches open the airways, making it the safest, easiest way to transport these 1-3 ton beasts

You can read more about upside-down rhinos here!