Rhino - Black & White

[Lisbeth]

The rhino has a strange hump on the back

[Richprins]

It's because they normally have their heads way down!

[Lisbeth]

I had a look at the others

[Flutterby]

Interesting.

[Richprins]

A series of rhino pics by aat - 2014:

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 5&start=10

I post this story because of World Rhino Day.... today september 22 2014

Not a funny story... not a day to celebrate.... but to be afraid for the future of these wonderful animals.

Why ? because the world today is crazy.... stupid..... people are turning into killing machines to kill all elephants and rhino and many other species for some dollars.... payed by "people" from a part of the world thinking a horn of hair will do any good to them.... or , what I think.... they now have money and spend it for buying horn and ivory just for fun....

A world where the word respect is like rhino..... endangered .... No respect for them....no rhino.... they just don't care, including all the people supporting this process.... politcians....rangers....staff.... the reality of 2014

More then 700 rhino lost their life in 2014 ...just because they have some pressed hair on their heads ... the horns they need ....horns they have for many many thousands of years

I feel sad and angry ...every day another 3 are killed. Peacefull animals.... social animals.... animals with a friendly face... not harming anybody.... they belong to the wildlife world.... they belong to africa but also in asia .... just a few left in the far east.... just a few thousand in africa

The world....I mean people do NOT learn from history....

Last trip to kruger you see soldiers ...hunting poachers , I mean I have seen more soldiers in the north of kruger then rhino....

Sorry for this , but it is coming from the heart , I feel and I am angry and knowing I can't do anything to stop it

In this mood I just like to show some pictures of rhino made during our last trip

When I prepared the pictures I was thinking... are you still around....

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Hope it will get better.... Hope to see you rhino....

[Richprins]

A nice sighting by Pumbaa in 2014:

and then suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of the day in the midday heat when you really did not expect to see anything we were blessed with one if not the highlight of our this year’s Kruger visit – a black rhino right in front of us!



Hectically we started to distribute the cameras and the only thing we could hear was our breathing and the steadily click of the button



but somehow the blackie came steadily closer after same at first sight still hid behind a far too small bush with some flowers curiosity won and same got more and more interest in ourselves,



the investigation of the car, the big lenses or two more than happy people continued not knowing why all the fuss was going on around it.





Besides us only one other car with a group of people also staying at Biyamiti was sharing this magnificent sighting – this was only our second sighting of a black rhino in Kruger and besides three other sightings of blackies in some KZN parks this was the closest we ever had and most probably will ever have.



Unfortunately our black friend came closer and closer until same was only two meters it could also have been less from our car so we got a bit uncomfortable by that close presence





and so Timon switched the engine on and as already expected the rhino lost immediately the interest and started to walk away into the thick bush – My magical road delivered once more! WoW What a sighting!

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 0&start=20

[Dindingwe]

Caught before and after the act, in Eswatini (ex-Swaziland !) :

[Lisbeth]

He looks super exhausted

Great pics

[Richprins]

[Flutterby]