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Any wild animal is dangerous to humans, not even very large, and here is the rhino! However, cameraman Garth de Bruno Austin, filming of these powerful animals in the wild of south africa even contrived scratch the rhino belly.
The rhino female herself approached Garth during his filming, and suddenly began to flatter, as if begging for something from a person. And since the operator at that time had nothing to feed by an unexpected guest, he simply scratched her stomach – as often done in relation to pets.
And the rhino, apparently, really liked it, at least least, the female stood and literally thrilled with pleasure. As he says Garth himself, the friendliness of a wild animal in this case is explained by the fact that he has been shooting rhinos for a long time, and they’re used to it, began to trust. If tourists decide to pet this powerful animal, then they risk their life great, to the rhino it’s better not even come close: he immediately attacks a person, and run away or somehow otherwise it is simply impossible to resist it.
By the way, rhinos can be understood: a person for them has always been enemy, since the horn of this animal is highly valued. And although since 1977, the sale and purchase of this valuable natural material banned in the world, wanting to buy a rhino horn is not diminishing, but therefore, poaching of these animals does not stop.
Since the cost of such a horn today ranges 50-70 thousand euros, you can only imagine how much is hunters for this valuable product. For example, most recently – 7 March 2017 – criminals even entered the Thoiry Zoo under Paris and killed for the horn of the five-year-old rhino Vince, after which heads of other similar institutions, for example, a zoo Dvur Kralove nad Labem in the Czech Republic even began to remove on their own horns of animals in order to save them from the temptation of poachers. And in Some African nature parks allow security guards shoot poachers encroaching on the life of rhinos and elephants.
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