The adorable video was actually captured in South Africa in 2020.
A wholesome video showing an innocent swap between a rhinoceros and a goat cub is melting hearts on social media. The short clip was posted on Friday by the Twitter handle ‘Fascinating’ and has since garnered over 2.3 million views and over 128,000 likes.
“A baby rhinoceros imitates his goat friend,” read the caption of the post.
Check out the video below:
A rhinoceros cub imitates his goat friend.pic.twitter.com/IpzEKlcga1
— hottie (@fasc1nate) 4 November 2022
The Daily Star reported that the adorable video was actually captured in 2020 by Karian Smit at the Hodspruit Endangered Species Center in South Africa. It depicts a young rhinoceros trying to jump happily like his goat friend.
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First, the baby rhinoceros was seen as the lively goat moving around in circles and jumping up and down. A few seconds later, the huge young rhinoceros was also seen joining his goat friend and jumping and jumping.
The 14-second video immediately caught the eyes of internet users as they flooded the comments section with all kinds of reactions.
“It’s cute and hilarious at the same time!” One user wrote. “Rhinons can be quite sociable when they don’t recognize you as a threat. The problem is that their poor eyesight and generational paranoia make them recognize almost everything as a threat,” explained another.
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A third commented, “So cute!!!! I love goats, they always look so happy and full of energy”. “Didn’t know rhinos could hop,” wrote the fourth.
The strange bond between two different species of animals is something to behold. Last month, a video showing a Goat and his little monkey friend Along with eating berries also surfaced on social media.
In the clip, a man was seen calling the goat with a handful of jamuns. Hearing this, the goat, with a monkey’s cub, clinging to its back, came out of the forest. Both were seen eating Jamun.
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