October 4, 2006: Rhinos attack newborn calf
 

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

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

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

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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.

Baby vs. Rhino
 

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.

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

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.

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...)

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.

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