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Welcome to another initiative, Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Paff, joined by Reggie Rizoo on today's episode using radiation

to curb rhino poaching. Weird Wednesday has fossilized feces, a tent naming contest, and a unique

animal far, far from home. Plus, on this day in history, the first large-scale cultivated strawberry. Yes,

that's right. First large-scale cultivated strawberry. Come up on cool stuff. In a story from the AP

and the Good News Network, scientists in South Africa have developed a novel way to disincentivize

rhino poaching while simultaneously allowing the creatures to keep

their horns. Now, if the latter portion of that last sentence has you confused, here is some

context. The practice of capturing and dehorning rhinos to discourage poachers from killing them

is fairly widespread. However, per GNN, scientists have since learned the

lack of a horn interferes with the animal's social structures. So now rhinos at a nursery in the

northern province of Limpopo have had radioactive isotopes embedded in their horns. The idea being

that the radiation given off by those isotopes will mark anyone at any

border crossing as having handled a rhino horn. Nuclear researchers at the University of the Whitwater

Strand's radiation and health physics unit in South Africa injected 20 live rhinos with

these isotopes. Professor Nataya Chetty is the dean of the science faculty

at Withwater Strand and said the dosage of radioactivity is extremely low and its potential

negative impact on the animals was tested extensively. A professor James Larkin, who heads up this

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