This undated photo provided Tuesday March 7, 2017 by the Thoiry zoo shows the rhinoceros Vince, center, at the zoo, west of Paris. A zoo director says a five-year-old Rhinoceros living in the wildlife park he runs near Paris has been shot three times in the head by poachers who stole its ivory horn. (Domaine de Thoiry via AP)
PARIS (AP) — A zoo director says a 5-year-old rhinoceros at the wildlife park he runs near Paris has been shot three times in the head by poachers who stole the animal’s ivory horn.
Thierry Duguet told The Associated Press that poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo overnight and used a chain saw to remove the horn from the rhino named Vince. Zookeepers discovered his carcass Tuesday in the rhinoceros’ enclosure.
Duguet says police are investigating and the suspects still are at large.
The Thoiry Zoo is famous for its safari park that can only be explored from inside a vehicle.
According to Le Parisien newspaper, a rhinoceros horn can be sold for up to 40,000 euros on the black market because of a strong demand linked to the belief that the horns have aphrodisiac powers.
Exposing the Big Game 
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“The evil that men do lives after them..” ~ Wm. Shakespeare
I hate people..
There is no act too barbaric or low that depraved humans will commit or have already committed…..
How in the world did this happen?
This is too horrible! It makes me so angry and sad!
Me too.
Could we just run big-time adds for Viagra and then drop it by the plane-load! What a horrific reason for magnificent animals to lose their lives. The self-importance of our species is both ridiculous and contemptible..
What?????? This is extremely upsetting.