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.
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.