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Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros horn has traditionally been highly prized in Oriental medicine. This demand, allied with the use of rhino horn for ornamentation - especially the ceremonial daggers favoured in the Yemen - means that all five species of rhino have now been brought to the edge of extinction.