They were hunting one of the world's most endangered mammals, the greater Asian one-horned rhinoceros.
His favourite animal is the rhinoceros, and rhetorically he charges ahead in much the same way.
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All species of rhinoceros are protected under U.S. and international law, and all black rhinoceros species are endangered.
He helped unearth 16 fossilized triceratops, the scary three-horned rhinoceros-like dinosaur thought to have fought the giant Tyrannosaurus rex.
On a shoe he made last year, a spike juts from the top of the foot like a rhinoceros horn.
In China, there is a centuries-old traditional belief that drinking from the intricately carved rhinoceros horn cups brings good health.
The Department for Environmental Affairs says "a hunting client may only hunt one white rhinoceros within a specific calendar year".
He also uncovered a skull of the world's largest land mammal, a kind of giant hornless rhinoceros now known as Indricotherium.
At the Metropolitan Police stores, Sergeant Knox shows me a horn from a black rhinoceros, brutally hacked away from the animal's head.
Conservationists in Africa and Asia have recorded slight increases in the numbers of one of the world's most endangered large mammals - the rhinoceros.
They include human teeth, the skull of a woolly rhinoceros, mammoth tusks and a tooth, flint tools and the antler of a giant deer.
And, although he is proposing to start with cave bears and woolly rhinoceros, Sid, Diego and even Scrat may yet get their turn on the genetic catwalk.
The latest census of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros (rhinoceros unicornis) shows there are 534 of the beasts in Nepal, a rise of almost a quarter since 2008.
Native to Africa, the black rhinoceros is classified as a critically endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
South African authorities say at least 96 rhinoceros have been killed so far this year, as rampant poaching for their horns to sell to buyers in Asia continues.
The central dramas concern the exacting veterinary care of a rhinoceros in labor and the hunt for feral dogs that get through the fences and kill young animals.
To explain the pressures many endangered species face from humans, Attenborough came face-to-face with a baby rhinoceros in Kenya, whose horn had been removed to protect him from poachers.
But if Ferrari handled that aspect of the season with the sensitivity of a charging rhinoceros, it was difficult to fault the way they went about producing as fast a car as possible.
According to court documents in Miami, Wei admitted to agents after Li's arrest that he knew about Li's smuggling and had purchased rhinoceros carvings from Li that apparently had been smuggled from the United States.
Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.
The home, with a sign in front that reads "Dotcom Mansion" and a large giraffe and rhinoceros sculpture, also has an extensive security system including three gates, manned security guards and security cameras, said New Zealand Police detective inspector Grant Wormald.
Since 1976, trade in rhinoceros horn has been regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a treaty signed by more than 175 countries to protect fish, wildlife and plants that are or may become imperiled as a result of demand in international markets.
It features the largest concentration of plains animals in Africa, and while many safari destinations vary seasonally, it offering visitors some the best game viewing drives all year-round, with the famously huge migrating herds of wildebeest, zebra, antelope and gazelle as well as lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffalo, rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, crocodiles and abundant birdlife.
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