1, rhinoceros horn is grown on the nose, there are single and double horns. Due to growth in the middle of the head, closer to the round or large oval; bull horn is long in the brain to the sides of the fork, because the cow brain is relatively flat, so the bull horn is flat;

2, rhinoceros horn (rhinoceros non-rhinoceros have) longitudinal grain is always straight and parallel to each other, even if it is due to the age of the long time and the cracking, there will not be such as the other horns of the same kind of cross-network. Rhinoceros horn cross-section, although there are annual rings, but because the longitudinal fiber lines are parallel to each other's structure, so the phenomenon reflected in the cross-section is: for the rhinoceros is called "caviar grain"; for non-rhinoceros is called "cane grain", people in the industry are collectively known as the "Caviar grain". And other horns do not have this feature.

3, rhinoceros horn cross-section with caviar pattern; side with bamboo thread pattern; generally smell smell. And cow horn, some also have bamboo silk grain, but no hollow tube-like fish seed pattern; in the solid cross-section of the cow horn generally have a circle of a circle of the horn prion layer.

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Rhinoceros horn smuggling cases

Since August 2017, an overseas criminal group in South Africa to organize the rhino horn source of supply, soliciting and arranging for a number of Chinese ex-prisoners to act as cross-border carriers, the use of airports, overland passenger Using airports and overland passenger entry and exit channels, the rhino horns were smuggled into the country in the form of "ants moving" in the luggage. In the case **** identified smuggled into the rhino horn 333.8 kilograms, arrested seven suspects.

Since 2019, 111 cases of smuggling of endangered species and their products have been successfully cracked, including 17 criminal cases and 94 administrative cases, with 23 suspects arrested, and smuggled ivory, rhinoceros horns, dried seahorses, as well as pangolin scales, red coral, tortoiseshell, and other endangered species and their products*** amounting to 178.66 kilograms were seized for smuggling in violation of the regulations on bringing into the country.

In January 2019, Guangzhou Customs also detected a major case of smuggling 1,000 pieces of ivory products; case officers seized 1,746 pieces of suspected smuggled ivory products with a net weight of 18 kilograms. The case was the largest seizure of smuggled ivory by Guangzhou Customs in the postal channel.

On April 18, 2019, Guangzhou Customs broke up a transnational rhinoceros horn smuggling criminal gang in the travel inspection channel, and in the case*** identified 333.8 kilograms of smuggled inbound rhinoceros horn, and arrested seven suspects.

At 19:00 on January 15, 2018, Guangzhou Customs officials seized 22 pieces of suspected rhinoceros horn products, with a net weight of 11.48 kg, and 6 pieces of suspected rhinoceros horns, with a net weight of 7.9 kg, in two travelers' trolley cases, respectively. The anti-smuggling department judged that the case was most likely an organized transnational smuggling case. The case has been listed as a first-level supervisory case of the General Administration of Customs.

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