DISAPPEARING ANIMALS.
While rabbits are not dying fast enough, elephants are being killed at the rate of 36.500 a year—greatly in excess of their reproductive capacity, according to the "Xevr University." There is grave danger that the species, and several others, may be exterminated if the destruction is allowed to continue unchecked. It is etated that the white rhinoceros number only a few hundreds in two small areas in Africa; and that in Kenya the black rhinoceros is being killed in large numbers. Two species of antelope and two of zebra are extinct; several kinds of antelope are no longer wild; and only 45 of the mountain zebra of Cape Colony remain alive. The gorilla and the chimpanzee are being destroyed for commercial purposes, as are the elephant for its ivory, the rhinoceros for its horn, and the hippopotamus for its teeth, just as, elsewhere whale fishers threaten to exterminate the whale.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 15
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152DISAPPEARING ANIMALS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 15
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