Okay for some reason these pictures are doubled sorry. BUT these were my first rhinos all trip and I LOVED them. These are not the Rhinos I worked with or that lived at our house. These two black Rhinos live with the elephants over in the area where all the workers live. They are penned up at night because of "poachers" that come and try to cut off their horns. They want the horns because they can get A LOT of money for them because some cultures think they have healing powers but they are just made out of Carotene (like your finger nails). Imire saws off their horns once they get a little long and donates them to the game park reserve so that people aren't tempted to kill the rhinos for their horns. There is a really sad story but i will tell it later. ANYWAYYYYS these two rhinos are Guomo and Comchacha (spelling?) and all I know is that Comchacha means the bad word for "female dog" in English, and she kinda is one. HAHA. These guys are intense! They aren't handled as much or around people as much, just their handlers who walk with them all day everyday so no one tries to kill them. But rhinos like to charge and pretty much hurt you because they can't see too well so they charge and intimidate but sometimes don't know their strength and kill you soooooo needless to say we stayed in the trailer pulled by a tractor we were riding in.
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