Take 2: A #rhino herd gathers to gently welcome the baby #buffalo. Nature’s version of a baby shower. - ThreadSky

emilycurates.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Take 2:
A #rhino herd gathers to gently welcome the baby #buffalo. Nature’s version of a baby shower.

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mikemenn.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just entering the newcomer's scent into the Olfactory Database. (ODB)

sylvieblue.bsky.social•8 days ago

I wonder if to them a baby buffalo is as cute as a kitten or puppy is to us.

jjraimondo.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is so beautiful! Thank you 😊

kasparek.info•7 days ago

😍

gili92107.bsky.social•8 days ago

If baby shaped, why not baby rhino, must investigate 🦏

pwtulley.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hopefully went better than the one my mother once threw where the cat jumped in through an open door-window and dropped his gift (a massive dead rat) in the middle of the floor

spike02134.bsky.social•7 days ago

baby's like "geez don't step on me!!!!"
😜

pauleyb74.bsky.social•8 days ago

Huge horn

dystopicorey.bsky.social•8 days ago

I wanna go welcome the baby buffalo, too!

starproxy.bsky.social•8 days ago

bless you for this wholesome content

narhloki.bsky.social•8 days ago

I would be a very nervous buffalo mumma.

fluff-peace.bsky.social•8 days ago

what happened to the rhino's horns? Are they trimmed?

matttherhino.bsky.social•8 days ago

No, they’re all young male white rhinos. Horns just haven’t grown much yet.

jupitess.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nature is so amazing and beautiful! Thank you for sharing this!

tmindoya.bsky.social•8 days ago

I love stories where one species accepts the young of another. Thanks so much for sharing and clarifying that it isn't a baby rhino (I thought it was...figured they'd grow into it!). Lovely clip!

qua12.bsky.social•8 days ago

A celebration of a rhino baby❤️

jessicamcurrall.bsky.social•8 days ago

@emilycurates.bsky.social My apologies for asking a dumb question: Is a baby rhino called a buffalo?

emilycurates.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nope that’s not a rhino 😀

emilycurates.bsky.social•8 days ago

I also thought so btw, therefore Take 2 in the caption, community helped me correct it 😉

jessicamcurrall.bsky.social•8 days ago

Thank you for sharing all of this. This is blowing my mind. Are gentle cross-species interactions with newborns common?

Reading Ed Yong's (@edyong209.bsky.social), An Immense World has been sanity-saving reprieve's into wonderment, and following your photos is in the same category.

emilycurates.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’ve seen horses interacting with kittens if that counts

xdeserter68.bsky.social•8 days ago

Jessica, animals are a lot more forgiving than humans. There are countless beautiful exchanges between different species, you would think there's a dinner opportunity between a leopard and a fawn, but a simple walk beside each other or meet and greet, it's more common than you'd think 🫶🏻

jessicamcurrall.bsky.social•7 days ago

I believe you and I'm going to be thinking about this a lot today. 🥰

sylvieblue.bsky.social•8 days ago

baby privilege is pretty common in the animal kingdom, at least with mammals. A lot of species seem to understand that a baby is a baby and will do things like tolerating them being uncomfortably close. There's even cases of cross- species adoption - you see this a lot in domestic cats and dogs.

jessicamcurrall.bsky.social•7 days ago

Learning from you guys has been fascinating and heartening.

My thanks and my thanks.