Rhinos

During the rescue of a South African rhino calf whose mother was killed by poachers, six heavily perspiring men squeezed the sedated orphan into a helicopter whose seats and doors had been removed to make more space, according to a witness account. The rhino’s behind stuck out of the aircraft a bit, but the improvised airlift in February was a success.

A highly determined Rhino caused a scare for its keepers in The Netherlands.

There are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in the Malaysian state of Sabah, confirmed Masidi Manjun, the Tourism, Culture and Envi­ronment Minister, over the weekend.

South Africa’s police said on Wednesday that they seized around 55 million rands ($7 million) worth of assets from alleged rhinoceros poachers.