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Helping Nature Along

Something to watch here over your morning coffee & donuts: How to artificially inseminate a rhino.

“Rhinos do not always breed naturally for different reasons,” the narrator tells us in that affectless Teutono-Scandinavian accent that always seems to accompany stories of this kind. (“We’ve got a team coming over from Germany . . . they’re world experts . . .”)

I’ll hazard a guess as to one of those reasons: Rhinos are really, stupendously, U-G-L-Y. And even by rhino standards, 33-year-old Nuwana, lame and one-eyed, with a wonky upper horn, can’t have been getting too many dates.

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   09/15/11 11:23

The comeback almost writes itself.

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   09/15/11 11:41

We don't need no more stinkin' RINO's.

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   09/15/11 11:56

too easy...not gonna say it

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   09/15/11 11:57

I wonder how many grade school kids, on career day, say I want to grow up to artificially inseminate Rhinos?? I would think "I want to be a fireman" would outpace the Rhino choice. (As always, Derb comes up with the thought provoking posts/links.)

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   09/15/11 13:25

How on earth does one become a "world expert" in this??

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JoeC
   09/15/11 19:38

You know, if a species can't be bothered with reproduction, then maybe it's okay if that species goes extinct? Just sayin'!

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