Rampant Rhino Gets Amorous with Car
LONDON
(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.
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