Shida needs foster parents... such a sweetie

http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/html/rhino_orphan_profile_SHIDA.html

Foster SHIDA On-line Now
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp?G=5&N=58

"SHIDA"
30.10.03





A Newcomer: On the morning of the 30th October, a 2 month old baby rhino came into our care, his mother apparently an extremely old and emaciated Nairobi Park cow named "Stella", whose teeth were worn completely flat. Having come to the end of her life, she lay down to die near the Ivory Burn site in Nairobi National Park, her calf desperately trying to suckle her recumbent body. Hyaenas circled her and her baby all night, the calf having caused a wound on her udder, which is probably what attracted the attention of the hyaenas. He must have put up a spirited struggle to spare him and his mother a savage mauling by the hyaenas.

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hes so fargging cute!