{"id":212940,"date":"2022-11-03T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=212940"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:30:15","slug":"curious-collage-shows-rhino-horns-are-shrinking-due-to-impact-of-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/curious-collage-shows-rhino-horns-are-shrinking-due-to-impact-of-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious collage shows rhino horns are shrinking due to impact of hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cCurious collage shows rhino horns are shrinking due to impact of hunting\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>3rd November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Species evolution<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the study published in the latest edition of People and Nature by the British Ecological Society related to decreasing length of horns of rhinos.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What has been found by the study?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It found evidence for declining horn length over time across species. It is perhaps related to the <strong>selective pressure of hunting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rate of decline in horn length was highest in the critically-endangered Sumatran rhino and lowest in the white rhino of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This observation follows patterns seen in other animals, such as tusk size in elephants and horn length in wild sheep.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What were the sources of study?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It relied on a repository of images maintained by the<strong> Netherlands-based Rhino Research Center (RRC<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>It only included photographs where the animal was side-on to the camera to facilitate more accurate and repeatable measurements. It excluded photos of any individuals where the horn had been cut.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are lessons from the study?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Online image repositories can offer a <strong>freely accessible, information-rich and cost-effective alternative <\/strong>to museum collections. It is useful for studying long-term changes in human interactions with nature and ecological and evolutionary change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cCurious collage shows rhino horns are shrinking due to impact of hunting\u201d published in The Hindu on 3rd November 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Science and Technology Relevance&#8211; Species evolution News- The article explains the study published in the latest edition of People and Nature by the British Ecological&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/curious-collage-shows-rhino-horns-are-shrinking-due-to-impact-of-hunting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curious collage shows rhino horns are shrinking due to impact of hunting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-212940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704872650},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}