Read of the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Rhino are
captured by the pit system. A pit about ten feet long, five feet wide and six
feet deep is dug in the middle of a much used rhino path, and then thinly
covered with sticks and grass to camouflage it. A rhino, sometimes a calf
walking in front of its mother, falls and is later removed in a wheeled cage
dragged by an elephant to a stockade, where it stays for a month before being
taken to its final destination. This is all done scientifically and humanely by
experienced men of the Forest Department.
Questions:
1. How is a rhino
captured?
2. How is the
pit for catching a rhino made?
3. Why does the
rhino fall in the pit?
4. How is the
rhino removed from the pit?
5. How long is
the rhino kept in a stockade?
