It bugs me that, in a world that contains this... |
...the last one of these in the wild is going to wind up dying because some Chinaman thinks its toenails will give him a chubby. |
If I had Bill Gates money, I'd spend it on an ad campaign in China about the 'til-the-break-of-dawn properties of various wild pig and whitetail deer bits and subassemblies.
*Don't get too cocky. Plenty of Americans have McMansions and computers and smartphones and believe in homeopathy. But at least labeling a bottle of tap water as a 20C dilution of zinc oxide is unlikely to kill any tigers.
ETA: It turns out that "traditional Chinese medicine" has a boner, as it were, for deer penii. Which raises the question: Why can't I drive to Brownsburg without practically having whitetail in my lap because of the overpopulation of the Eagle Creek Park herd, and yet there are barely enough Javan rhinos on the planet for them to play an intramural game of American football? The Indonesian government is trying to protect the rhinos, while the mayor's office in Indianapolis would pay an enterprising Chinese dude to take some deer off its hands.
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