Home » Cute South African Rhino Orphan Joins Global #CuteAnimalTweetOff

Cute South African Rhino Orphan Joins Global #CuteAnimalTweetOff

With a little too much bleak news floating around, zoos in the United States decided to have a Great National Cute Animal Tweet Off of 2017… but before you could say “hashtag what?” the whole world had joined in and it became an international #CuteAnimalTweetOff. South African television personality Bonné de Bod – from Stroop (The Documentary […]

By SAPeople
27-01-17 02:11
in Fab South African Stuff

With a little too much bleak news floating around, zoos in the United States decided to have a Great National Cute Animal Tweet Off of 2017… but before you could say “hashtag what?” the whole world had joined in and it became an international #CuteAnimalTweetOff.

South African television personality Bonné de Bod – from Stroop (The Documentary Film on Rhino Poaching) – joined in with this incredibly cute photo of Baby Makhosi, a rhino calf that is currently being rehabilitated by Karen Trendler and her team at Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage.

“No contest!” tweeted Bonné. “This feisty rhino baby is a slam dunk because of her will to live.” Stroop has watched her progress over the past few months from a “severely stressed and very thin 2-day old [after her mother was poached and killed]… to a rather feisty gal who likes to eat.”

Bonné says she “couldn’t help but join in the #cuteanimaltweetoff phenomenon sweeping the globe at the mo! How gorgeous is this baby rhino!”

#CuteAnimalTweetOff began with the announcement below on Wednesday of the birth of a female gray seal at the Smithsonian National Zoo… a good news reminder that gray seals’ numbers have risen, and they’ve been moved from the endangered list to being a species of least concern.

Soon the whole world joined in…

https://twitter.com/WDWToday/status/824731146164563972

Please support Stroop remain independent to tell the true story of the rhino poaching crisis in South Africa: