October 4, 2006: Rhinos attack newborn calf

Peaceful mom and newborn calf at Holland's Beekse Bergen safari park. The youngster is fresh out, not a day old yet.





The ugly beasts catch scent and take up a chase of the weak-legged youth, apparently for nothing but sport.





And apparently the sport is golf as the calf is chipped up into the air.



Finally a keeper arrives, but no word on whether the youngster survived.

Often when there's an ugly-ass rhino baby or other sort of rhino pic, someone will note that rhinos are in fact utterly mean and nasty brutish animals...

Maybe they were worried mom was going to breastfeed in front of them at the watering hole.

Now, if the calf had been armed ....

Or if the mother had been able to get the morning after pill...

The calf wasn't on fire, was it?

In the pic where that poor baby is in the air--look at the rhino's face: Pure evil glee.

Hateful thing.

Brianna wrote:

...look at the rhino's face...

"...religion...is a smile on a dog..."

Brianna wrote:

In the pic where that poor baby is in the air--look at the rhino's face: Pure evil glee.

Hateful thing.

you watch too many cartoons

Don't assign human motivations to animals. If you paint a baby monkey pink, the other baby monkeys will attack and kill it, because it looks different. That's a survival tactic, and nothing else.

headsplice wrote:

Don't assign human motivations to animals. If you paint a baby monkey pink, the other baby monkeys will attack and kill it, because it looks different.

So you're saying don't assign human motivations to animals and don't paint baby monkeys pink.

Sheesh, way to ruin my fun!

Eh, I think animals do things for fun all the time.

And if a kid looks different in school, there's a pretty good chance they'll get attacked as well. Hopefully verbally and not fatally, though.

Let's "read" the "facial expression" of all these rhinos (I'll bet it's much harder with no narrative context...)

Happy Monkey wrote:

Eh, I think animals do things for fun all the time.

I have home videos of a baby seal chasing seagulls just for fun. Flopping around on his little flippers in the sand trying to get them.

Flint wrote:

Let's "read" the "facial expression" of all these rhinos (I'll bet it's much harder with no narrative context...)

First off, they're all horny. Get it? Horny?

Brianna wrote:

First off, they're all horny. Get it? Horny?

Well, duh, those horns are made out of aphrodisiac...

Steve the Rhino: "Hey Herb, did you hear Wanda the Cow had a kid?"
Herb the Rhino: "She did? That bitch! I bet it was with that Ralph! That guy is so full of bullshit."
Steve the Rhino: "Well, he IS a bull."
Herb the Rhino: "I don't care! That two-timing slut."
Steve the Rhino: "Yeah, well, I bet you're too chicken to do something about it."
Herb the Rhino: "Yeah? What the hell do YOU know about it?"
Steve the Rhino: "I bet you can't clear the fence with the kid."
Herb the Rhino: "Oh yeah, short-horn? Watch this shit."
Herb runs, horns the kid, kid clears fence EASY . . .
Herb the Rhino: "YEAH BITCH! TAKE THAT! HERB FOR THE THREE POINTER!"

Flint wrote:

Let's "read" the "facial expression" of all these rhinos (I'll bet it's much harder with no narrative context...)

That 3rd one on the right, 2nd row...he has an air of whimsy about him. ;)

LabRat wrote:

Maybe they were worried mom was going to breastfeed in front of them at the watering hole.

:lol2:

First row, second from left--has come to accept his sexual inadequacy.

3rd row, 4th one over...definitely a case of short-guy syndrome

Brianna wrote:

First off, they're all horny. Get it? Horny?

I tried so hard not to laugh.:redface:

Someone photoshop Steve-O into that picture.

headsplice wrote:

If you paint a baby monkey pink, the other baby monkeys will attack and kill it, because it looks different.

Unlike human beings, who are usually kind and supportive to people who look different. :lol2:

Let's be honest, who hasn't beaten someone to death, before realizing that they were simply painted pink.

Flint wrote:

Let's be honest, who hasn't beaten someone to death, before realizing that they were simply painted pink.

Well, I shot someone painted pink before. Man, did I feel badly afterward. I was SURE they were really pink!

Poor baby calf I hope it was ok. What a horrible start to life.
Don't know if anyone has noticed yet but the fence in the last photo looks a little bit flimsy to me. One little nudge and over she goes. Rhinos on the run, not such a good idea, and I'm sure there would be other animals and people all over the place running from those crazy ass rhinos :eek:

wtf......26 posts and nobody's told me whether we're eating the calf or the Rhino, yet.:yum:

Being so young, the calf is pretty pliable, which could save it.
Also, calves that young tend to walk around with their heads down which might have been interpreted as stalking?

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Also, calves that young tend to walk around with their heads down which might have been interpreted as stalking?

Oh, sure. Blame the victim.

It's a wildlife park. Shouldn't we see more of this kind of evolution in action sort of display? Why aren't there lions in the zebra enclosure, if they are really trying to provide a simulation of the African Veldt?

wolf wrote:

Why aren't there lions in the zebra enclosure, if they are really trying to provide a simulation of the African Veldt?

AND: entertainment value! It's a win/win! (Seriously...isn't it?)

It turns out that the IotD where the bear ate the monkey is from this same park.

I didn't know, until I retrieved my mail yesterday... and it turns out a lurker suggested this image just before I found it. Synchronicity... but thanks anyway, Marcel!

He said that the calf survived.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

wtf......26 posts and nobody's told me whether we're eating the calf or the Rhino, yet.:yum:

Veal skewers, duh!

Undertoad wrote:

It turns out that the IotD where the bear ate the monkey is from this same park.

I didn't know, until I retrieved my mail yesterday... and it turns out a lurker suggested this image just before I found it. Synchronicity... but thanks anyway, Marcel!

He said that the calf survived.

I'll have to remember not to go to that park for a vacation! SHEESH! :greenface

Ankoli cattle (sp?) - the sound strange - they say MOO - like you or I would just say "Moo" (or at least the one's I saw did)

Flint wrote:

Let's be honest, who hasn't beaten someone to death, before realizing that they were simply painted pink.

And who hasn't flipped a calf into the air with their horn?

I once flipped a kitten in the air, and across a room. Accidently of course.

I was walking out of a room, talking to my friend, not paying attention to my feet. Her new kitten crossed in front of me with perfect timing such that my right foot went right under it's belly and as it came forward, lifted the kitten into the air and sent it sailing across the room. I am embarassed to say I had to stifle laughter as I went to check that it was OK. It was. But man, you couldn't have timed it any better...

There's a vid on YuoTube that ends with a cat trying to catch a string that's attached to one of the blades of a ceiling fan. You can guess what happens.

headsplice wrote:

...You can guess what happens.

Yeah, you about choke from laughing!

dar512 wrote:

Oh, sure. Blame the victim.

Zere iss nine blame....ve vil be delving into ze psyche of ze Rhino's inner child. But first, ve vil delve ze problem of getting ze Rhino on ze couch:guinea:

This steer could probably take on them rhinos...

I don't know, neatorama? Even that Mad Max bovine would have a tough time with an Abrams M-1 Rhino. They be bad, even elephants are wary of them. :eek:

headsplice wrote:

Don't assign human motivations to animals. If you paint a baby monkey pink, the other baby monkeys will attack and kill it, because it looks different. That's a survival tactic, and nothing else.

Something like this really happened here in Texas. Migratory birds are routinely tagged or banded with a leg band to track migration. Sometimes larger birds like geese get a neck band collar with large numbers on it that can be read from a distance. Some guy at the fish and game got the idea to paint some snow geese pink to mark them from the others for tracking purposes. They didn't last long and were either killed by other geese or ostracized. :sniff: