White Rhino
BANG! A single gunshot rings through the park. The elephants stampede, demolishing exhibits, shops, smashing glass, crushing the expansive landscape. Teddy runs to the monorail to get a better view of the park. As he runs by the cage holding Rhonda, the white rhino, something glints in his eye. Teddy turns around mid-step to see a perfect bullet hole through the glass. Someone was out to get Rhonda, and, it was Teddy’s responsibility to find them. Poaching is not something just found in books, it is a real problem. Illegal poaching is a huge problem for white rhinos because of their horns’ highly value, their skin is cherished by hunters, and as a species they are on the verge of extinction.
In the book Teddy is secretly assigned to the mission of finding the criminal. Watching a video clip from the monorail camera Teddy and the security force discover that the shooter was actually a female. Although making advances in the search, Rhonda's horns are clipped off in fear that there will be another attack. They are stored in a safe in the main office by Athmani, or were they? Let's fast forward to a week later. Teddy and the owner’s daughter Summer are in World of Reptiles after hours(since Teddy’s parents work at Funjungle). They climb up on the roof to be face to face with “the …show more content…
All rhinos are grey even though they are named white or black. The difference between a white and black rhino, is the black rhino has a “pointed upper lip”(White Rhinoceros, 2015). Their diets are also different, with one of them eating grass and the other eating tree leaves. How do these amazing animals tie into my book? The main animal in the book Big Game is Rhonda, the white rhino who is being targeted by a poacher. White rhinos have a lot of problems in the real world with poachers too, because the value of their horns, there skin is a hunter’s must-have, and they are almost
BANG! A single gunshot rings through the park. The elephants stampede, demolishing exhibits, shops, smashing glass, crushing the expansive landscape. Teddy runs to the monorail to get a better view of the park. As he runs by the cage holding Rhonda, the white rhino, something glints in his eye. Teddy turns around mid-step to see a perfect bullet hole through the glass. Someone was out to get Rhonda, and, it was Teddy’s responsibility to find them. Poaching is not something just found in books, it is a real problem. Illegal poaching is a huge problem for white rhinos because of their horns’ highly value, their skin is cherished by hunters, and as a species they are on the verge of extinction.
In the book Teddy is secretly assigned to the mission of finding the criminal. Watching a video clip from the monorail camera Teddy and the security force discover that the shooter was actually a female. Although making advances in the search, Rhonda's horns are clipped off in fear that there will be another attack. They are stored in a safe in the main office by Athmani, or were they? Let's fast forward to a week later. Teddy and the owner’s daughter Summer are in World of Reptiles after hours(since Teddy’s parents work at Funjungle). They climb up on the roof to be face to face with “the …show more content…
All rhinos are grey even though they are named white or black. The difference between a white and black rhino, is the black rhino has a “pointed upper lip”(White Rhinoceros, 2015). Their diets are also different, with one of them eating grass and the other eating tree leaves. How do these amazing animals tie into my book? The main animal in the book Big Game is Rhonda, the white rhino who is being targeted by a poacher. White rhinos have a lot of problems in the real world with poachers too, because the value of their horns, there skin is a hunter’s must-have, and they are almost