John Hume, a disgrace to his species |
The
older I get, the more I am moved by the plight of other fauna on the planet in
the face of human rapacity. One of the week's most disgusting news items was the inaugural online auction of rhinoceros horn, held by South African
millionaire rhinoceros horn farmer John Hume.
Young Female Siberian Woolly Rhino |
Who
does not feel atavistic guilt and melancholy looking at the 39,00-year-old
woolly rhinoceros found in eastern Siberia in May, one of the many species of
megafauna exterminated by our hunter-gatherer ancestors? Only a few millennia
later, some of them created thrilling portraits of
some of her close relatives in Chauvet, southern France.
Chauvet cave animal paintings |
The
rhinoceros had lived alongside Neanderthal man in prehistoric Thessaly, but by
the classical era the European rhino was long extinct. Aristotle had heard of
them, probably through accounts sent by Alexander’s army in the east, and the
occasional Egyptian-Greek amulet shaped like a rhinoceros has turned up. But
the brutal exploitation of the rhinoceros can clearly be seen in ancient Rome,
where it became the star of the amphitheatre.
Ptolemaic Rhino Amulet |
The
rhinoceros features in accounts of wicked Emperors’ depravity: Commodus liked
to slaughter rhinoceroses personally, at no danger to himself. Caracalla revelled
in rhinocericidal spectacles as well. Domitian had
been particularly keen, even stamping a rhinoceros on coins to remind his
imperial subjects of the lavishness of the games he had provided.
Domitian's Rhinoceros coin boast |
The
poet Martial’s poems on Domitian’s rhinoceros fetish are heart-breaking. Since
this magnificent beast is vegetarian, and temperamentally placid, it proved
profoundly disappointing in the shows when animals were meant to tear each
other apart to gratify the audience. So the rhino had to be tortured into
losing its temper and attacking other animals. But then it could toss two oxen
in the air, terrorise a lion, or
vanquish a great brown bear.
Mosaic at the Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily |
The
rhinoceros, all 3,800 lbs of it, can indeed charge an adversary at 30 mph. John
Hume’s rhinoceroses can’t toss their assailants, of course, because he has removed
and auctioned their horns. But I for one would not be sorry to see him face a
herd of them, furious, in an arena. Perhaps a new form of the ancient venationes (hunting spectacles) could be invented
specifically to punish humans convicted of cruelty to animals.
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