Rhino gets amorous with car

[CivCube]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/22/amorous.rhino.reut/index.html

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A rampant rhinoceros gave a group of visitors a glimpse of nature in the raw at a British safari park when he tried to have sex with their car.

Sharka, a two-ton white rhino, got amorous with Dave Alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner Trixie at the West Midland Safari Park.

The 12-year-old rhino tried to mount the Renault Laguna from the side, denting the doors and ripping off the wing mirrors before Dave drove away with a puffing Sharka in pursuit.

"He was a big boy and obviously aroused," Alsop told the Sun newspaper on Thursday.

"He sidled up against us. The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell."

A spokeswoman for the park, which says "rhinos are not particularly intelligent animals" on its Web site, said Sharka was a hit with the female rhinos and had fathered two calves in the last five years.

"He's got a bit of a reputation this lad and he was obviously at it again," she added.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

My other wife is also a Porsche...

 

[Amenhotep7]

Best. News Story. EVER! Hilarious!

 

[Iggy]

Obviously a horny beast.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Luckily the rhino didnt want to try out any new sexual positions with the car

 

[betazed]

Not to take fun away from the post

But how do we know that it was a amorous behavior and not a dominance behavior? Many animals mount others of the same sex to establish dominance relations. It is eaier for me to assume that the rhino misunderstood the car for another big beast over which it wanted to dominate than mistaking it for another female rhino (typically animals never do that) !

But of course the sex story is as always better!

 

[Achinz]

Yes, humans do tend to have dirty minds making a mount out of a molehill so to speak.

 

[Akka]

Originally posted by betazed
But how do we know that it was a amorous behavior and not a dominance behavior? Many animals mount others of the same sex to establish dominance relations.

Because "a car" is obviously female

Sorry, in my native language, it's the case ^^

 

[Iggy]

Originally posted by betazed
It is eaier for me to assume that the rhino misunderstood the car for another big beast over which it wanted to dominate than mistaking it for another female rhino (typically animals never do that) !

Dominance over a Renault Laguna, does the Rhino have an inferiority complex?

 

[betazed]

Originally posted by Iggy
Dominance over a Renault Laguna, does the Rhino have an inferiority complex?

No, but if you work with animals and see them closely then you will see that animals pretty much make out whether they should attack or not by just taking the size into account and pretty much nothing else.

I can tell you this from personal experience (I have done a bit of wildlife photography in Africa). Elephants will never attack if you are in a car and a typical way to scare them away is to bring a larger car or blow your horn and revv your engine. But woe be to you if you are in small car and the elephant is in "must" (sp?). In that case anything smaller than a truck is clearly in danger. The same goes for lions and rhinos.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

I thought they used that in a commercial some years ago.

 

[Double Barrel]

I think the car should sue for sexual harassment. Where's that confounded panda when you need him?!

 

[Serpico]

Sharka, a two-ton white rhino, got amorous with Dave Alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner Trixie at the West Midland Safari Park.

And he didn't take pics of the lovely couple? I'd like to see that...