Even now, the pals romp around and play together in their enclosure.
Photo courtesy of Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino OrphanageĬharlie and Makhosi became the best of friends from that day on. Within five minutes, the rhino and hippo met, snuggled up to one another, and Makhosi calmed down. She removed the barrier that separated Makhosi and Charlie’s pens. Hippo is a very heavy animal, and it is the third largest land mammal. Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, is a herbivorous and semi aquatic mammal of the Family: Hippopotamidae. Whereas Hippopotamus does not have any horns on their head. Since this article intends to discuss those in brief, it would be worthwhile to go through the presented information about hippopotamus and rhinoceros. It is made of a protein known as keratin. The rhinoceros has a prominent horn on its snout which is its most distinct feature. In the middle of the night, one of her rescuers got an idea. Many years ago, zoologists grouped a number of thick-skinned species together as pachyderms, including rhinos, tapirs, horses, elephants, hippos, pigs. The difference between Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros is mainly the horn. The hippopotamus has a grayish colored body. Sumatran rhino's are reddish brown in color. The Black rhino is not black and is similar in color to the white rhino.
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She was scared in her new home and couldn’t settle down. The Indian Rhinoceros has thick, silver-brown skin which creates huge folds all over its body. So the folks from the orphanage rescued her, too. She was just two days old, and her mother wasn’t taking care of her.
Photo courtesy of Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino OrphanageĪbout a week after Charlie arrived at the orphanage, Makhosi the rhino was found in the wild. And, as luck would have it, that’s where he also found a friend. Luckily, rescuers from the Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, found him and brought him back to their facility to take care of him. Charlie the hippo was abandoned by his family just a few days after he was born. But that doesn’t seem to matter to these two creatures. In the wild, a friendship between a hippo and rhino simply wouldn’t happen.