Upside-down Flying Rhinos →
How utterly fantastic is this photograph?
Here’s the gist, from MSNBC’s PhotoBlog:
Through the project, 19 black rhinos, a species listed as critically endangered, have been moved from South Africa’s Eastern Cape to a safer location some 1,000 miles away in Limopopo province.
“Previously rhinos were either transported by lorry over very difficult tracks, or airlifted in a net,” Jacques Flamand, head of the WWF project, said in a statement released Friday.
“This new procedure is gentler on the darted rhino because it shortens the time it has to be kept asleep with drugs, the respiration is not as compromised as it can be in a net and it avoids the need for travel in a crate over terrible tracks,” he added.
