Relax, Charlie's got your back

20 May 2016 - 08:24
By MATTHEW SAVIDES

An unlikely friendship is forming at the Thula Thula game reserve - and it's a relationship that could save the life of a baby rhino.On Tuesday two-day-old white rhino calf Makhosi was brought into the northern KwaZulu-Natal reserve's rhino orphanage after being born premature.She was too small to reach her mom's teat and vet Mike Toft realised he had to step in or the calf would not survive the night.

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