Black and white Rhino spar

After searching for the small herd of buffalo all afternoon, success as my tracker spotted the unmistakable tips of the horns of a few animals in some tall thatching grass. The animals started towards the dam for a afternoon drink but not before they where joined by a Black rhino and 2 white rhino. Like an excited child the black rhino kept running around the white Rhino untill the young animal started to spar with him. There seemed to be no real aggression as the spared and it ended in a final horn to the butt of the white rhino as its mother lead it away. During the sparing the buffalo herd moved through and around the Rhino as well as a nyala bull who came to see what all the fuss was about.

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 12 February 2008