Goat, Baby Rhino Make Odd Couple (Goat 'adopts' baby rhino...Warning! Extreme Cuteness Alert!)

NBC 5 ^ | March 2, 2005

[Stoat]

Goat, Baby Rhino Make Odd Couple

Rhino's Mother Killed By Poachers

 

POSTED: 7:15 am CST March 2, 2005

UPDATED: 7:19 am CST March 2, 2005

 

KRUGERSDORP, South Africa -- An adult goat at a nature preserve has adopted a baby rhinoceros whose mother was killed by poachers.

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  Keepers at the preserve, which is 30 minutes northwest of Johannesburg, said that when the baby rhino arrived, he was lost until he spied a goat through the fence on a neighboring farm.

  The goat came up to the rhino and they seemed communicate through the fence. The rest is history.

  The rhino follows the goat wherever she goes and the goat looks out for the baby rhino.

  The rhino's name is "Clover" and the goat is named "Bok-Bok."

  Their friendship will not last long. As soon as Clover stops requiring milk, it will be moved to the adult rhino area, without Bok-Bok.

 

An adult goat at a nature preserve has adopted a baby rhinoceros whose mother was killed by poachers.

 

Keepers at the preserve, which is 30 minutes northwest of Johannesburg, said that when the baby rhino arrived, he was lost until he spied a goat through the fence on a neighboring farm.

 

The goat came up to the rhino and they seemed communicate through the fence. The rest is history.

 

The rhino follows the goat wherever she goes and the goat looks out for the baby rhino.

 

The rhino's name is "Clover" and the goat is named "Bok-Bok."

 

Their friendship will not last long. As soon as Clover stops requiring milk, it will be moved to the adult rhino area, without Bok-Bok.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stoat]

Yes, there's video too :-) If the FR link doesn't work, click on the master page URL to open up the page in a new window and then click the video link again.

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[Conan the Librarian]

Sounds like my friends Ox who has two pet goats. The Ox is a rather laid back dude. He is moreso with the goats.

[Vaquero]

Pataki???? is that you????

[Bigturbowski]

Is that person trying to interview the rhino in that last pic?

[Stoat]

Pataki? No, sorry, I'm not the Governor of the State of New York :-)

[bikepacker67]

Rhinos a vicious disgusting creatures that shyt on themselves, and are responsible for more deaths than lions and tigers combined.

[Stoat]

Is that person trying to interview the rhino in that last pic?

Yes!  When you watch the video, you can hear munching sounds from the rhino and, surprisingly, nobody tried to eat the microphone   :-)

[bikepacker67]

Whoops! That would be hippos.

Nevermind </Roseanna Roseannadanna>

[Stoat]

Rhinos a vicious disgusting creatures that shyt on themselves, and are responsible for more deaths than lions and tigers combined.

Sounds more like Democrats  :-)

Thankfully, this infant rhino has not yet followed in the hoof-steps of some of it's less-congenial relatives

[ken5050]

YOU'RE CONFUSING RHINOS WITH HIPPOS...

[Stoat]

Whoops! That would be hippos.

Nevermind </Roseanna Roseannadanna>

Even so, if it had been a baby hippo instead of a baby rhino, it still would have pinned the meter on the cuteness scale  :-)

Whoops! That would be hippos.

Nevermind </Roseanna Roseannadanna>

[sinanju]

Now let me get this straight. Are they saying that Bok-bok the goat is nursing little Clover?

And according to the late hunter/author Peter Hathaway Capstick, it is Hippos of all the african megafauna who kill the most people in deepest darkest. They do most of their grazing at night and tend to charge anyone who runs into them.

[ken5050]

Rhinos are nearly blind..they rely on smell and hearing..

[ken5050]

Rhinos, or Rinos?

[ArrogantBustard]

The Hippopotamus
by Hilaire Belloc

I shoot the hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

[Theresawithanh]

Cute pictures! Is the rhino being interviewed in the last one?

"What plans to you and Bok-Bok have for the future?"

"I don't know about Bok-Bok, but I want to go to the U.S. and become a R-I-N-O senator..."

[Stoat]

Now let me get this straight. Are they saying that Bok-bok the goat is nursing little Clover?

Although the pictures and the video here show the zoo handlers feeding Clover, this story from the Sun states that the rhino has been nursing from the goat:

The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper

BREAKING NEWS

Goat is rhino's nanny

By SUN ONLINE REPORTERA GOAT has adopted a baby rhinoceros whose mother was killed by poachers.

 

When the baby arrived at a nature reserve in South Africa, it was lost until it spied the goat through a fence.

The pair appeared to communicate through the fence until keepers put them together in the reserve.

The rhino is said to follow the goat wherever it goes and the goat looks after the baby rhino, even giving it milk.

But once it stops feeding, the rhino will separated from the goat and moved into the adult rhino area.

And according to the late hunter/author Peter Hathaway Capstick, it is Hippos of all the african megafauna who kill the most people in deepest darkest. They do most of their grazing at night and tend to charge anyone who runs into them.

I've also heard that, and I promise you that I have no intention of getting near any hippos.  Stoats tend to mind their own business anyway, generally staying in their caves and using the internet, as well as enjoying an occasional steak and a nice single-malt scotch  :-)

[rockabyebaby]

Awwwwwwwwww shucks!

[Ryan Spock]

"Yes, of course I'm a Republican, but I also
believe in reaching across the aisle and being
bipartisan, and I refuse to march in lock-step with
the right-wing fanatics trying to take over our party.
We must fight to protect a woman's right to choose,
and we must spend lots more money on educating our
children, so that we can teach them about using
condoms and accepting alternative lifestyle choices..."

[Stoat]

Rhinos are nearly blind..they rely on smell and hearing..

I've heard that....and apparently this can sometimes cause adults to be dangerous, where they may charge at vehicles, perhaps not understanding what they are.