***Rhino for Siris......***

Fabulous animals - thank you for sharing!

Me too !

I just said to my son this morning, stocking up with Gerbil wood shavings packs, its an effort, but to look after even one animal and give it a happy life is a worth while thing
for a human to do.

Your welcome Bathgate and Diane.....

When my children were small we took them to Colchester zoo, (this is where the ostrich grabbed & ate Luke's bobble hat).
The animals looked so sad in their cages that it put me off zoos completely. The French zoo you've shown here looks to be a completely different experience, thank you for posting it.
I've nominated this for entry under wildlife.

Oh, thanks Dd, just see this blog, what a fabulously large horn. Not surprised you asked about the zoo in France that suffered a poaching attack.
About 20 + years ago we visited Whipsnade zoo, and a male Rhine had a raw red bloody patch on his forehead, where he had knocked his horn completely off. The horn was in the paddock. We called some staff who said he had been causing trouble attacking the other Rhinos in the paddock and they were considering removing the horn before he injured another Rhino, so it saved them the trouble. I don't know if the wound would have needed cauterising, the front horn had come off completely.

Wonderful photographs Dd, very interesting facts as well..

That was a great blog on Rhinos, DD, even if they do live in a zoo!

Thanks to the work of many zoos it's possible to conserve animals that are in danger of extinction in the wild while some have programmes of reinsertion of some species.

Thanks Lincs......Balcony there are Zoos!! and then there are Zoos!!