Rhino behind the Bar! (Black Rhino causes mayhem!)

http://www.rhinosafaricamp.com/ Mvuru was bred in captivity as part of the reintroduction of Black Rhino into Matusadona NP in Zimbabwe. She mated with a wild male & now is the mum of a wild calf. Murume named by the girls of Chisipite Junior. School, Harare.
Because of her captive breeding she often calls in at Rhino Safari Camp on the shores of Lake Kariba. Every time I have stayed here she has shown up, normally waking us in the middle of night as she chomps away at the scrub.
The time this was filmed we had set out on foot to track Mvura my wife had declined the extra early morning call but as she came down the steps from our thatched stilted room she had to do a quick about turn for Mvura was at the bottom step!
This year from waking us at 2 am she had travelled many kilometres in a few hours, Benson picking up her spore each time we crossed it by Land Rover. Finally we found her far to the East in thick bush. We wonder if she is now preparing to mate again & is preparing Murume for his solitary life.
There is little editing of this video, the odd camera shake removed that sort of thing - I just happened to be in the right place at the right time!

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[duncanerd]

I visited Jen and the team in November 2010. The 2 visited the camp one evening and we saw them next day. Murume is getting quite big now but still together,



[KipperSarnie]

@duncanerd

In 2009 there was a large male in the area & we spent ages tracking Mvura up to near the escarpment.

At that time we thought she was leading Murume away to go his seperate way but from your information she must have been protecting him.

I still have video's to edit of that trip as well as last year in Botswana.

[HollywoodKendrick]

wheres the mayhem?

[creativeforce11]

amazing

[stoffes]

stupid people! lay up a vid later when it beat u to da ground

[duncanerd]

I mostly take stills and have put up one of Mvura and murume on facebook. Most of my videos on youtube are of my wildborn Canaan dogs in Saudi. Something interesteing happening there with dogs and HAmadryas baboons living together???? Cant get anyone there interested and taint easy to get back. There is now a FB site for Rhino Safari camp. One clip of eles frommy room at the camp.

[duncanerd]

I visited Jen and the team in November 2010. The 2 visited the camp one evening and we saw them next day. Murume is getting quite big now but still together.

[okapiworld]

I met Mvura when she was about one year old and have been keeping up with her progress over the years. Good to see she is the same good natured gal.

[ninnys1]

precious

[042576705]

she is cute animal