Officials at Cat Tien National Park in Dong Nai province, and scientists at the Tay Nguyen Institute of Biology, last Thursday successfully reconstructed the skeleton of a one-horned Javan rhino, according to Tran Van Thanh, the park director.
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Officials at Cat Tien National Park in Dong Nai province, and scientists at the Tay Nguyen Institute of Biology, last Thursday successfully reconstructed the skeleton of a one-horned Javan rhino, according to Tran Van Thanh, the park director.
The skeleton has been rebuilt with the bones from the one-horned Javan rhino which was shot dead in Cat Tien National Park in April 2010.
Experts remade some missing bones, includingtwo neck vertebrae, the vertebrae in the hip, vertebral ribs, a kneecap and some finger bones from composite and plaster.
Thanh said the reconstruction and exhibition of the rhino’s skeleton will remind park visitors and raise awareness of the necessity for wildlife preservation in Vietnam.
At a press conference in Hanoi last October, the WWF and the International Rhino Foundation announced that the Javan rhino that was probably shot dead for its horn at Nam Cat Tien National Park in 2010 was the last of its kind in Vietnam.
According to the WWF, 2010 marked the extinction of the Javan rhino in Vietnam. International experts, with help from highly trained sniffer dogs from the US, had spent months trying to identify the exact number of the mammals left in the country, without success.
(Source: TTNews)
