Rhinos are sick of being bullied around. There are only about 29,500 of them left because they are often slaughtered for their horns.
More than 1,050 were poached in 2016 alone.
So instead of fleeing from humans, one little rhino decided it would charge back at some tourists on safari. However, it didn’t have the terrifying effect on the car full of tourists at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park game reserve that the rhino may have hoped for.
“We actually thought it was the cutest thing ever,” Brendon Arnesen, who captured the encounter on video, told Caters News, according to GrindTV.
The tourists were in the car at the park which is located in South Africa, where 70 percent of the world’s rhinos exist, when the tiny rhino charged at them. This cute little baby runs toward the car, then starts to walk toward it.
The driver drove backward a little bit as the rhino continued to skip forward.
Instead of being scared by the rhino, everyone in the car was laughing. They did, however, have another concern.
“Our only concern was that the mom would be protective over her newborn calf, but she was very relaxed and allowed the baby to play,” Arnesen said. “The baby was so inquisitive, and just wanted to run.”
It wasn’t long before the baby had become distracted by a car coming from the opposite direction. The playful little rhino then ran towards that car. Once that car stopped, the baby rhino didn’t know what to do.
So, he started to run back and forth between the two cars having a grand old time.
This adorable little baby seems to be really curious about these cars.
He’s probably wondering what the heck they are and why they don’t look anything like him. He eventually just walks on over to the car and out of now where sprints backward. He’s just having a ton of fun with himself and his little sprinting game as mom just stands back and lets him do his own thing.
The tourists were planning on seeing the oldest nature reserve in Africa, which is about 170 miles north of Durban in central KwaZulu-Natal, but they weren’t expecting to join in on playtime.
“The game reserve allows you to do self-drive tours in your own vehicle, but the last thing that we had expected to see was a newly born, playful rhino!” Arnesen said.
You can see his silly little game below.
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