techniques that rely on other sensors. but he told me to expect to get my hands dirty — very dirty. rhinos are very hygienic in nature. they drop their poop in a collective place, we call it a midden. it's pretty fresh. much of rhinos�* poop is semi—digested grass. it feels like soil back at home. yeah. i guess it's fertiliser. 0h, now it is smelling a bit doggy. and so there are all rhinos dropping their poop together. oh, you're... there is the smell! it doesn't smell that bad. itjust smells of, like, off grass, you know? the reason why we value these middens is especially when you're doing patrols as rangers, the rangers will use this as a parameter. yes. but lots of rhinos use it to communicate. they poop out different smells at different stages. a young one is different from a mature rhino, a female is different from a male. the canine unit who protect the animals here are made up of armed rangers and