Overview
- Footage from Wroclaw Zoo shows a Reeves’s muntjac named Tata charging and headbutting a rhinoceros called Maruśka.
- The zoo said the male deer’s heightened behavior followed his partner being in heat and a surge of testosterone.
- Zookeeper Maciej Okupnik described the exchange as more theatre than risk, noting the rhino appeared to play along.
- Staff said interactions between muntjacs and rhinos are tolerated in shared enclosures and brief displays like this can occur.
- The AFP-circulated clip drew wide online attention as viewers marveled at the extreme size contrast.