Rhino’s hitting cars in West midlands safari park today

[RunningRhino]

So this isn’t anywhere I can read.
Today we were caught up in Rhinos fighting at WMSP- West Midlands safari park.

Rhinos were fighting then cars were in the way of their fight so they started trying to move the cars out their way. It looked more like head flicks and shunts rather than trying to do serious damage, but 3 cars were hit repeatedly.

But the issue is is that this lasted a long time, around 5mins. During this time the park did not stop cars coming in. As they had not seen what was going on people were still trying to pass to get into the fighting arena with their kids hanging out the windows.

There was no influx of keepers to help the one getting hit and they still kept sending the cars through. These things happen but there seemed to be no alert go out to stop the cars. Or even a halt for 5mins to assess the situation if the fighting rhinos needed to be removed and the park was safe, just keep the money flowing in.

I have tried to contact the park but just got a well read your email in 7 days and no other way to contact.

When I went to Longleat they also had someone in a tractor keeping the rhino a flare distance from any cars.

Tell the rhinos they are being unreasonable.

Yeah this is exactly what happened. The jeep was moving the rhinos to be in front of the lodges, but the park was still full with a queue of cars. One rhino walked in front of our car into a fence and then did the damage to the car in front of us while it was trying to back out. I can't believe they were moving them into a queue of cars without any organisation.

Or ban them for 24 hours, whilst reminding them that charging into cars is against Mumsnet talk guidelines.

Op there must be some sort of zoo regulation body you can report this too.

Did you get any photos

German rhinos are worse
https://www.google.com/search?q=rhino+attacks+car&rlz=1CAVKAU_enGB1107&oq=rhino+attacks+car&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg80gEINTU5OGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:60be0405,vid:r1wN6KrY5Nc,st:0

😂 The rhinos were being reasonable and doing rhino things and if they are used to being shunted by the jeeps they probably see cars as fair game to shunt them back.

The park was being unreasonable

@Digerydont sae that when trying to find if there was anything about yesterday!

No had dropped phone trying to move little people from the doors. Said it would have been amazing footage! No dashcam and I wonder if the parks have cameras covering all the enclosure, couldn’t see any. Car next to us was a Tesla so they film constantly?

I agree about having a no more cars let in process

With a “no isa complete sentence” if they try to argue back 😂

Sorry about that, ongoing beef.

Ask on Facebook. Local groups will have someone who has footage. The Shuttle might pick it up as breaking news...it'd be a big story for them 😉

I live near and know where you can see the rhino enclosure from outside, its common to see cars broken down and rangers in attendance to get them moving,

Oh OnceUponaTime it was awful, my hands went to jelly and I just couldn't start it and the children were shouting and I had a horrible feeling they were going to get in through the engine department. Yes monkeys are small but they are incredibly strong

Rhi-no is a complete sentence surely?! 😅

A camel sat on the bonnet of my car at Woburn safari park once and dented it
Also the Monkeys at Knowsley safar park are Savage, they rip off all sorts from cars

We made the mistake of driving through Longleat monkey enclosure once, it was a hot day and the monkeys knew how to pull out the windscreen washer pipe to get water.

Ours didn’t have as much windscreen washer fluid as others clearly did so our car came off less badly damaged than some in front and behind us . They would spit some of the water out and attack others’ windscreen wipers and washer bits if the mix was too strong

But I wouldn’t drive through again.

I used to work as a keeper in a safari park and we used to have a keeper plus gun and land rover in every drive through enclosure. They kept an eye on things and would radio to the gate keepers to stop the flow of traffic when a problem occurred.

So keepers cant stop rhinos fighting and are unlikely to even try but YANBU to think there should have been a better response.

Our park moved from having individual cars drive through to putting visitors on a land train with self locking doors and windows that dont open in the end, bit that was to protect the animals from the visitors more than the other way around.

Good old Shuttle

https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/26452952.west-midlands-safari-park---fighting-rhinos-ram-damage-cars/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=Iwb21leATn2DhjbGNrBOfYNXBkb2YBZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeVcrPok4rUN53Br6uvQLIvpQzX_riXK69FXQKBy4HXaoAbFLr1UoZs-r7w6E_aem_WQMet-RuYEM3HA2FKlCwqA#Echobox=1786443350

@DY10DY11 that’s a pretty good description! The one that went through the wheel arch if it had been a different car would have killed the passenger or ruptured the petrol tank.

And exactly what we said about them not stopping people at all and shit response from the park.

@RhinoatWestMidlandsSafariPark not at all, you were just rhinos being rhinos and the cars got in your way. It was the rubbish keepers fault for feeding more cars into your battle arena.

We very much appreciated the speed of your initial battle run and felt privileged at that point!

The car that got the horn in the side was luckily a pick up truck so it went in and under the wheels arch

The car pictured in the newspaper article wasn’t the worst car hit either

Still no response yet from the park