We had a truly UNIQUE sighting this week …. We tracked and found two rhinos at a dam. We were watching them
approach the water to take a mud bath when the pack of wild dogs approached. They were very interested in what the rhino were doing!!
The rhinos seemed oblivious to the dogs and carried on with their mud bath. Even when the dogs approached them they did not seem to be alert at all. At one stage they did kick up a bit of dust. But that is about it. And quite frankly, if you have ever seen a rhino up-close, then you know why a rhino will not be worried by a wild dog. Not a chance.
There was a dead wildebeest already in the water when the dogs approached. They sniffed at it and inspected, but decided that they don’t want “Old Meat” 😉
What I find particularly amazing is that this sighting combined two of Africas’s very rarest animals. There are only about 3000 wild dogs out in the wild, and about 12,000 rhinos, on a continent larger than North America, Latin America and Europe COMBINED!
So the odds of seeing these two animals at the same place and at the same time are almost zero. It is a total fat tail event, ie. a black swan event. Mind-blowing stuff!
