{"id":191875,"date":"2024-06-26T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-implant-radioactive-material-into-horn-of-living-rhinoceros-to-poison-anyone-who-consumes-it"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:23:21","slug":"scientists-implant-radioactive-material-into-horn-of-living-rhinoceros-to-poison-anyone-who-consumes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-implant-radioactive-material-into-horn-of-living-rhinoceros-to-poison-anyone-who-consumes-it","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Implant Radioactive Material Into Horn of Living Rhinoceros to Poison Anyone Who Consumes It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-implant-radioactive-material-into-horn-of-living-rhinoceros-to-poison-anyone-who-consumes-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make them useless to poachers, researchers are implanting radioactive isotopes into the horns of rhinos in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual material would \u201crender the horn useless\u2026 essentially poisonous for human consumption,\u201d James Larkin, professor and dean of science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20240626-first-radioactive-rhino-horns-to-curb-poaching-in-s-africa\" class=\"\">told<em> Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The isotopes would also be \u201cstrong enough to set off detectors that are installed globally,\u201d Larkin added, referring to hardware that was originally installed to \u201cprevent nuclear terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to make them useless to poachers, researchers are implanting radioactive isotopes into the horns of rhinos in South Africa. The unusual material would \u201crender the horn useless\u2026 essentially poisonous for human consumption,\u201d James Larkin, professor and dean of science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, told Agence France-Presse. The isotopes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}