IG-Nobel English Practice

And the award goes to a experiment that hung 12 tranquilised black rhinos upside down

from a for 10 minutes.

That's right you heard correctly they are known as the “IG” Nobel not quite as well known as the real Nobel prizes.

The science humour magazine “Improbable Research” says the IG Nobel awards should first make you and then make you think.

And this year’s winner probably does exactly that rhinos from their feet from helicopters is a method increasingly used in African conservation to shift rhinos to different locations

either for their protection or to ensure genetic and breeding.

But according to the researchers from Cornell University and Namibia’s ministry of environment nobody had ever to see if the health of the tranquilized animal was compromised when flying upside down.

Black rhinos are critically endangered rising demand for rhino horn and another mistaken belief it has medicinal qualities.

It's estimated that at one rhino is killed every single day.

There are only five and a half thousand black rhino left.

Their numbers have been by poaching. And it turns out the rhinos coped very well hanging upside down in fact they did better in this unusual position than simply lying on their side or chest.