Study helps prevent rhino deaths during relocation

Friday, August 15, 2014 - 06:00 in Biology & Nature

Wildlife experts lose one to two black rhinoceros each year from anesthesia complications when they capture and relocate the animals. That's 1 to 2 percent of the black rhinos that are moved annually, but with only 5,000 or so left in the wild in southern Africa, any losses are too many.

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