Horns of a Dilemma
1st March 2023
Apparently, the four happy hornographers in this case studied a huge heap of historical photos and etchings in the repository of images maintained by the Netherlands-based Rhino Research Centre to reach their conclusion. Clearly, “Come up and look at my horn etchings” is a fruitful academic enterprise, and I am sure that their contribution will be enthusiastically accepted, particularly when this kind of academic ambrosia is also the colour of the paint on that mythic bandwagon called trophy hunting. It is a rather sad reality that researchers need to attract necessary funds to survive, ipso facto only research proposals containing the popular words “extinction”, “climate”, “global warming” or “trophy hunting” get to feed from the funding’s life-giving trough these days.
Like tenure, funding doesn’t grow on trees.