Rhino goes wild on car with family inside at the Ramat Gan safari

• Published date: 13 March 2024
• Author: ORI SELA
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The mother and children were not injured, but the car was damaged due to the rhinoceros's behavior

The safari said that the rhinoceros, whose name is Mafenzi, is ten years old and came a few months ago from a zoo in Lille, France.

Rhino not used to vehicles

"Mafenzi is not used to vehicles, and it is possible that he was stressed and therefore hit the car," said the Safari announcement.

"The safari team put Mafenzi into a large compound separated from the savannah in order to calm him down so that the incident would not happen again

"The...