Rhino Walks Up To A Wildlife Photographer And Gets Scratches

AnimalsAroundTheGlobe ^ | July 5, 2024 | Alana Theron

[nickcarraway]

[C210N]

I came here thinking the rhino might be Cheney, or Linda, or Romney…

[rktman]

I hear Yellowstone buffalo are into getting scratched like that also. 😳

[Red Badger]

That rhino must have interacted with humans before..............

[Jamestown1630]

Rhinos are interesting critters; but ‘graceful’ and ‘majestic’ aren’t words they bring to mind...

[wildcard_redneck]

That photographer has a death wish. Growing up in Montana it was a summer ritual to read stories of tourist getting killed petting buffalo in the Billings Gazette.

[Magnum44]

[PGR88]

Its horn is missing and rounded off, which I believe means that humans removed it and sanded down the nub (for fear of poachers)

So this Rhino has probably interacted with friendly humans before

[gnarledmaw]

Could be.

That one appears by the flat of its nubbin like maybe its one of the ones that are intentionally dehorned so that they dont get poached.

[nickcarraway]

It sounds like he’s interacted with unfriendly humans.

[HandyDandy]

Scratch a rhino, ……find a dem!

[Paladin2]

Photographer is a ‘Rat?

[j.havenfarm]

And I recommend, if you want a really cute selfie, position yourself between a bison and her calf

[Jamestown1630]

The idea is that it’s better to lose the horn than to be killed by a poacher. It seems to be somewhat controversial, but apparently so far, no de-horned rhino has been poached.

[LouAvul]

And for a really, really cute selfie, a pretty blonde white liberal woman should walk down any street (named after Martin Luther King) after midnight.

Hey! We're actually talking about courting disaster, aren't we?

[nickcarraway]

Keep me of like Angelina Jolie.

[BigEdLB]

This is nice of you, human. A little lower and to the left please.

[Verginius Rufus]

When I first looked at the headline, I thought it said "Rubio," not "Rhino."

According to a nature program I saw recently, there are 5 species of rhinos, 2 in Africa and 3 in Asia.

[Widget Jr]

This was seven years ago, not exactly "recent". It is still a cool story.

Garth de Bruno Austin's video of the encounter.

[powerset]

“If you think the elephant preposterous,
You’ve probably never seen a rhinosterous.”