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They DNA test it

There's only DNA in the base, rhino horn is basically hair...

..which has DNA in it.

BINGO

Rhino DNA

..which has DNA in it.

BINGO

Rhino DNA

now i was going to say that very thing but after looking it up on the internet is does appear as though exact DNA typing can't be done from hair

I think only the follicle of a strand of hair has DNA in it. Not sure about the Rhino horn.

Another piece of helpful technology is DNA profiling. DNA tests on seized rhino horn, and comparison to a database of known rhino DNA, can identify where the rhino horn has come from. It provides vital evidence linking criminals to the crime scene and helps secure convictions.

http://blogs.wwf.org.uk/blog/campaigns/day-5-how-technology-is-helping-to-combat-rhino-poaching/

Could be used by the baddies too.

All that is required is the information to determine between a rhino and other ungulates.

^^Hulk Hogan says so.

There's mitochondrial DNA in strands of hair (which can be used to test parentage, but isn't individual), you can't tell species with MtDNA (at least not in the same way you can with chromosome counting), you need the base of the hair for that.

But that is the point. If you insert enough of not rhino horn into the rhino horn supply chain, and they find out from their testing thereof, then consumer confidence will fall to the point that unless you are actually testing it yourself, you would not be sure it was rhino. I mean, unless they test it, then your fucking with it is not going to matter.

See the horse in beef burger scandal. Everyone kept right on eating shit beef, until they realised it wasn't.

Edit: The "that" (which is the point) is not Khornight's post, but a number of the posts up above.

Worked with cocaine......

Ha!

There's mitochondrial DNA in strands of hair (which can be used to test parentage, but isn't individual), you can't tell species with MtDNA (at least not in the same way you can with chromosome counting), you need the base of the hair for that.

I don't really think that's an issue when using this 'horn'..

The method used in this study can be applied in the identification of processed products of rhinoceros horns, such as sculptures, daggers, powders or even mixture powdered prescriptions.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/10570924_Species_identification_of_rhinoceros_horns_using_the_cytochrome_b_gene

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Typically, the RhoDIS team will extract DNA from a seized rhino horn using a new, sensitive technique, the details of which have yet to be published. A DNA profile is then produced by sequencing 14 genetic markers. As with other kinds of DNA testing, markers are variable, repetitive non-coding segments of the genome, called short tandem repeats, which are heritable. This profile can then be compared to those in the RhoDIS database..

http://frameweb.org/adl/en-US/6807/file/940/new%20scientist.pdf

A trader shows off real rhino horn—the more fibrous piece on the right—compared with a fake made of water buffalo horn. A DNA test confirmed that the real horn was from a white rhino, an African species.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/212351/bad-medicine

Simple answer is to farm Rhino commercially, for their horn, and flood the market to the point that going out and shooting one of the bad tempered buggers becomes a non-starter from a commercial point of view.

If you can get 30g of premium Rhino horn on eBay for £20 you are not going to buy some in a landrover under cover of darkness.

I think that seeing Rhino charging around in the fields of England would be a nice side benefit also.

Fenton!

Yeah - but organic, free range horn gets me so much harder.

What do you think Rhino tastes of?

Rhinos in RP would be hilarious.

What do you think Rhino tastes of?

Sexual liberation

Dammit's comment - this. But probably not palatable to the WWF (or whatever they are called now). And goes against the grain as far as law enforcement and that goes. Compare with the war on drugs. If they made the shit legal, most of the problems (crime, violence) would go away. But that is not the way they go about it. If people want things, the response is usually to deny them it.

Dammit's comment - this. But probably not palatable to the WWF (or whatever they are called now).
They became the WWE in 2002, once they realised that Pandas could do a mean suplex.

There's mitochondrial DNA in strands of hair (which can be used to test parentage, but isn't individual), you can't tell species with MtDNA (at least not in the same way you can with chromosome counting), you need the base of the hair for that.

I don't really think that's an issue when using this 'horn'..

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Rhino horn is made of hair not bone. I have no idea of the implication or relevance of this, I just wanted to appear smart

If you can get 30g of premium Rhino horn on eBay for £20 you are not going to buy some in a landrover under cover of darkness.

The issue I have with this is that it confirms the superstition.

Rhino horn is made of hair not bone. I have no idea of the implication or relevance of this, I just wanted to appear smart

you did

What do you think Rhino tastes of?

why chicken of course ... as long as it doesn't have any horse in it

Rhino makes good eating...