This is the heartbreaking moment a calf was seen desperately trying to suckle milk from her dead mother after the older rhino’s horn had been hacked off by poachers.
‘What a tragic scene of a poached mother and her little baby heifer calf trying desperately to suckle milk, with no response from her mother,’ he says.
The rhino calf can be seen trying to suckle milk from the dead mother after poachers hacked her horn off
Because of a now natural fear of humans Lottie had to be blindfolded and sedated, she was so small she was able to be bundled into the back of an SUV by Rhino 911.
The heartbreaking video shows the calf calling out for her mother, who lies dead after being attacked by poachers
He said the baby was just a month old and that same night lions were already devouring the mother’s carcass.
The killing was the park’s eleventh in just four weeks and left the calf – nicknamed Lottie – crying out for her mother as she lay dead
‘We’ve lost now 11 rhinos in the last four weeks, in that specific park,’ he said. ‘It’s usually very difficult for them to be to poach in the middle of the park and then leave without us getting hold of them, so this is worrying.