Fun fact, the hairless elephants and rhinos evolved from the hairy ones. In other words, they evolved alongside human beings who were themselves spreading up towards the north as the "pachyderms" were spreading south. Something about the hairy forms didn't allow them to bear the pressure of the new, SPEAR-WIELDING predator in its midst, especially once they were accompanied by packs of DOGS (which are always, always always glossed over when people argue about cLiMaTe ChAnGe killing species that had survived previous glacial interstitials). Probably had a longer gestation period, and recent DNA studies show that near the end, their genes had been bottlenecked badly so there would have been no coming back from genetic collapse anyway (humans likely targeted the calves, and decimated the populations by attrition that way. Climate change and genetic collapse took over from there.)
The elephants and hippoes are basically just the last of the megafauna that were tough enough to face a spear-using pack animal, but the introduction of guns has really fucked things up, not to mention the, yes, population boom of the past 5-7 human generations.
And frankly, all races are the enemies of wildlife any more. Africans may hate and resent their white-founded nature preserves, but who is it always in the news killing the trophy lions and then bragging up about it bringing money to the niggers? Shithead white trash. Not to mention the sad state of the natural history of North America (helped by the redskins, but hey, whites brought the guns and steel traps.) And now the skies are fucking empty, except for piece of shit airplanes, spreading shit and one big fat ugly invasive species everywhere.
Rhino horn is made of the same substance as your own fingernails, so no, it does nothing.
As for reasons: False, false false. The whites killed mostly for industry. And the pot. The "fun" part was mostly the higher-profile large-game hunting craze of the Victorian era-early 20th century that Hemingway was writing about. The Great Auk went mostly for trayne oil. A lot of birds were also killed because farmers thought they ate seeds (the Eskimo Curlew was mistaken for a seed-eater. It ate bugs as it passed over the prairies on its way back north, and the fact that it, and certain other birds, are now missing is exactly why we need fucking pesticides.) There were also museums that paid money for ever-scarcer specimens (that's why fuck the redskins for whining about their bones and bodies being taxidermed, they were never hunted specifically and bountied for it, like non-humans were, and THEY PARTICIPATED.) The predators were killed because of hatred of predators (a rather hypocritical one, at that.) Rich people hunted for sport, but the poor overkilled for the pot (people used to brag that they could throw rocks or shoot shotguns into flocks of birds, and kill and injure many at a time. They'd go home with wheel barrows full of birds. And now the skies are fucking empty.)
And the Natives also overkilled, all stone agers have done. In fact, it's now suspected that the Little Ice Age was caused by a pre-Columbus plague that decimated the redskin population, which meant they were no longer burning the fuck out of forests any more, and that the non-human populations whites saw were actually populations in recovery. Long-time hunter propaganda insists that the Virginia White-Tailed deer was nearly extinct (and limited to what is now Virginia) because the Natives had been busy doing to them what they had already done to the American megafauna, from Mastodons to giant sloths and beavers .. and I think they actually might be right with that one.
Oh, and whites used to have bullshit apothecary recipes, too. But the Chinese really are the worst and really only care about their fucking dicks.
Fun fact, the hairless elephants and rhinos evolved from the hairy ones. In other words, they evolved alongside human beings who were themselves spreading up towards the north as the "pachyderms" were spreading south. Something about the hairy forms didn't allow them to bear the pressure of the new, SPEAR-WIELDING predator in its midst, especially once they were accompanied by packs of DOGS (which are always, always always glossed over when people argue about cLiMaTe ChAnGe killing species that had survived previous glacial interstitials). Probably had a longer gestation period, and recent DNA studies show that near the end, their genes had been bottlenecked badly so there would have been no coming back from genetic collapse anyway (humans likely targeted the calves, and decimated the populations by attrition that way. Climate change and genetic collapse took over from there.)
The elephants and hippoes are basically just the last of the megafauna that were tough enough to face a spear-using pack animal, but the introduction of guns has really fucked things up, not to mention the, yes, population boom of the past 5-7 human generations.
And frankly, all races are the enemies of wildlife any more. Africans may hate and resent their white-founded nature preserves, but who is it always in the news killing the trophy lions and then bragging up about it bringing money to the niggers? Shithead white trash. Not to mention the sad state of the natural history of North America (helped by the redskins, but hey, whites brought the guns and steel traps.) And now the skies are fucking empty, except for piece of shit airplanes, spreading shit and one big fat ugly invasive species everywhere.
Rhino horn is made of the same substance as your own fingernails, so no, it does nothing.
As for reasons: False, false false. The whites killed mostly for industry. And the pot. The "fun" part was mostly the higher-profile large-game hunting craze of the Victorian era-early 20th century that Hemingway was writing about. The Great Auk went mostly for trayne oil. A lot of birds were also killed because farmers thought they ate seeds (the Eskimo Curlew was mistaken for a seed-eater. It ate bugs as it passed over the prairies on its way back north, and the fact that it, and certain other birds, are now missing is exactly why we need fucking pesticides.) There were also museums that paid money for ever-scarcer specimens (that's why fuck the redskins for whining about their bones and bodies being taxidermed, they were never hunted specifically and bountied for it, like non-humans were, and THEY PARTICIPATED.) The predators were killed because of hatred of predators (a rather hypocritical one, at that.) Rich people hunted for sport, but the poor overkilled for the pot (people used to brag that they could throw rocks or shoot shotguns into flocks of birds, and kill and injure many at a time. They'd go home with wheel barrows full of birds. And now the skies are fucking empty.)
And the Natives also overkilled, all stone agers have done. In fact, it's now suspected that the Little Ice Age was caused by a pre-Columbus plague that decimated the redskin population, which meant they were no longer burning the fuck out of forests any more, and that the non-human populations whites saw were actually populations in recovery. Long-time hunter propaganda insists that the Virginia White-Tailed deer was nearly extinct (and limited to what is now Virginia) because the Natives had been busy doing to them what they had already done to the American megafauna, from Mastodons to giant sloths and beavers .. and I think they actually might be right with that one.
Oh, and whites used to have bullshit apothecary recipes, too. But the Chinese really are the worst and really only care about their fucking dicks.