By: A Northern White Rhinoceros
As certain extinction closes in on myself and my subspecies, I, Mark the Northern White Rhinoceros, one of the two remaining Northern White Rhinoceroses on the planet , would like to say on behalf of my subspecies that we probably should have tried a little harder.
As Charles Darwin wrote, natural selection is a matter of survival of the fittest and it appears we just didn’t have what it takes.
Now I know what you’re going to say, “but Mark, what about all the poachers in the 70s and 80s who reduced your population to a 30th of its former size?” I do not deny that fact, but those poachers were after our horns, which they sold to people who believed they had mystical healing properties.
If we had really cared about our survival, we would have done something to hide our enticing horns. We chose to be ostentatious and flashy and this is where it has landed us.
I hear female humans have a similar problem along the same lines. I don’t know what the female human equivalent of a Rhinoceros horn is, but I urge them to disguise it from potential predators, lest they be responsible for dooming the fate of their species, just like us prideful Rhinoceroses.
The fact is, our species is facing extinction, and we must ignore all other possible factors that could have contributed to our decline. The world has a natural order we all must accept and it has made it clear that just like the Sea Mink, the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Tasmanian Tiger, the Northern White Rhinoceroses is just not wanted by our Mother earth.
