Rhino dies during anti-poaching demonstration:
A conservation group in South Africa accidentally killed a rhinoceros Thursday during an anti-poaching demonstration performed in front of a group of reporters.
The demo required that Spencer, a male rhino in his late 20s, be shot with a tranquilizer gun so that demonstrators could dye and insert a tracking device into his horn—a procedure that ideally deters poachers from slaying the animal to sell the horn. But the sedation process failed.
"The rhino had an unfortunate reaction to the anesthesia," Lorinda Hern, a spokeswoman for the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve told Reuters. "Every time you dart a rhino, you take a risk that the rhino might not wake up and unfortunately today was one of those days."
The animal reportedly went into convulsions and could not be revived.
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