Gertjie, the orphaned Rhino arrived at HESC and stole the world's hearts.
Үй жануарлары мен аңдар
In May 2014, a little orphaned rhino, who was found next to his mother's body, who had been killed for her horn, was brought into the care of our team at Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre, in South Africa.
His story captured so many people's hearts, and he grew up so quickly. He is a grand, healthy young rhino now, and is still spending most of his time with Matimba, another orphaned rhino, that arrived a few months after Gertjie.
Thank you to everyone that supported us financially and those that supported us emotionally, then and now. It would not have been possible without your love.
To find out more, to see how you can help, go to:
www.help.hesc.co.za
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Lammie and Adine have loved, nurtured and rescued so many babies. ❤❤❤
Such a sweet baby. Adine, bless you for loving this sweet lonely bsby.
HESC and HERD are just amazing. You have taught the world so much about Rhinos and Elephants. And now the World loves Khanyisa, Gertjie, Matimba, and all the other ones. Thank you very, very much.
Gertjie and Matimba are still together, big guys now, enjoying their wild life.
I watched Little G for months! He was and is so smart! He’d kick his door when he wanted milk or company
@HESCCheetahCentre
6 жыл бұрын
haha, we remember that too!!
I will have to return to watch on another day when my eyes don't fill with tears. I am thankful for Gertjie's rescue and the amazing people that helped.
Wonderful to see how well he did thanks to Adine n all who cares for him, especially our guardian angel n true friend Lammie 🐏💕🦏💕👼💓
Beautiful creatures all, with every right to live their full lives free from human cruelty. Thank you for all you do. 💖
The rhino love of my life. As I watch, tears fill my eyes. Tears of joy that he has done so well and tears of pain that his mom and so many like her were slaughtered for no reason. It is so heart warming to see our Little G all grown up. Thank you for making my day.
@HESCCheetahCentre
6 жыл бұрын
..... lots of love to you Lori!
@yurekbond6707
7 ай бұрын
Niesamowite. Piękne. Cudowne Dziękuję Wam Pozdrawiam z Polski
@silvrdevil
4 ай бұрын
Remember watching every day to see how little G was, and he won my heart. He and Matimba were just adorable and started my live of rhinos. Thank you for sharing this with us as I have wondered how they were these last years.
Bless all of you for helping! Thanks for helping the baby!
Very nice. I wish all people treated animals with compassion like this.
Gertjie is a special rhino. How could you not fall in love with him! Just beautiful! ❤
This video popped up on my home page. It’s very cool because I saw this rhino in a recent video. He’s all grown up, living in the bush, and still recognizes Adine. Lovely story of the way it should be.
@judycook4314
5 ай бұрын
Same!
He is gorgeous!! I wish I had seen her from the beginning!! Its wonderful thàt you also have a foster program for the rhinos. I absolutely adore the wonderful elephants. I have watched their behaviour especially towards Khanyisa. I never knew how maternal they are!!People have no idea how these beautiful elephants have their own ways of doing absolutély everything! The carers work very hard and have done exceptional!! I intend to be a donor again, and that will make me feel I am helping in a very small way for what you so far have accomplished. Thank you Adine, for your unselfish love dedicated to these very precious icons. God Bless all of you
He is charming and so cute. Thank you for saving this precious Spirit!🦏🐾❤
Learning about Gertjie & Matimba early ‘steps’: how sad for them to see their moms killed . How traumatic for them & so heartbreaking. Brings me so much joy to see them healthy & being best friends. Thank you, Lente/HESC for everything you do! 💖🦏
he's a lap rhino. [and he still is to this day in his heart, even tho he lives wild now]
So touching with love. There are so many people who have a heart for animals.
Tears and tears and so much Love they are all so Love and this life of human beings and animal beings is one in Love And love May the reality shower their trauma with healing grace and light for always and ever ❤
If only more humans were like these wonderful people.
So ein wundervolles Tier🥰🥰🥰 und ganz wundervolle Menschen, die das Nashörnchen aufgezogen haben 🥰🥰🥰
Very cute i saw a story on this rhino. its a very sad story of what happened to him as a calf. but i am very happy and great full to see him being taken in and taken care of by you guys, that take great care of him hopefully he stays with you guys for the rest of his life. As he has no real concept of wild I'm sure as he has been in captivity since he was a calf and hopefully he is very happy where he is. It sucks that people/poachers are killing these amaizing animals hopefully one day they can be completely safe in there natural environment
@woodstream6137
7 ай бұрын
He was rehabbed and is living as a wild rhino in the sanctuary. Adine meet him again and he recognized her but soon wandered off.
Lammie has raised a bunch of kids, she's a pro and knows how to comfort connect and watch over those babies no matter the species!
❤❤❤❤😊 that just makes me happy! What a beautiful creature
This is so absolutely beautiful and heart warming to see this preciousness. Thank you for providing this wonderful video!!!
My heart 😢❤ thank you for rescuing this baby Rhino 🦏 ❤
God 🙏 bless you... you're are true angels. Poachers are doomed to hell !
How awesome to be napping and waking up to a rhino on your lap. The keepers are so blessed to work with these beautiful giants. Rhinos only charge when they feel threatened which will never happen where they are at. And best of all no poachers.
Thank you so much the world would be a much worse place without you !
Gertjie e Matimba! 😍😍😍😍
@HESCCheetahCentre
6 жыл бұрын
Special memories!
He is just so beautiful, outside and to his soul.
BEAUTIFUL, GOD BLESS YOU
I love watching Gertie when you first brought him in and feed him with a btl and played and walked him.. how he could snore , 😃 💕watched when he was released on his own and cried.lol. I really enjoyed watching that,
A touching story, so sweet rhino baby. Tears fill the eyes. Thank you so much for his care, and Matimba 💕🦏🦏💕. Hesc and Adine ❣.
Such a beautiful animal.
What beautiful and caring people you are. No matter how f-ed up the world is when you see a situation like this you remember hope. Love from Aussie Land.
This is a beautiful story, and I totally agree, until you have loved an animal, you are not truly awakened. I had many dogs and cats as pets all my life, but I fell in love with my English Bulldog Darby. She passed away at only about five years old, and that was three years ago this Thanksgiving night at midnight in the Animal Hospital Emergency Room. I’m not over her passing away, and I miss her so terribly bad, that it’s really hard on me. Our souls connected and I am half empty about living without her. I know I will see her again!
It is heart wrenching what goes on in this world. I try to imagine a world without humans and all I see is a world of peace/ violence/ balance.
So glad he got some lil friends, great job
From Poland with LOVE❤❤🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏
I missed your channel, but I think I would have fallen in love with a rhino, too.
Love this soo soo much!
@HESCCheetahCentre
6 жыл бұрын
BebeLapinouBlanc thank you:)
Such a beautiful creature!❤
Ah, you should tag Karien Smit who helped a great deal in raising him and who is featured in the video @HESCCheetahCentre
@HESCCheetahCentre
6 жыл бұрын
You are right! will have to see if we can do that on FB ;-) She was a big part of his life x
@esmit
6 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video. Great work with the rhino.
thank you............I needed that today
Bless him. Wonderful little baby. Animals are so amazing.
Amazing! Just Amazing!
I’m so very jealous of you guys working with such amazing animals
Absolutely beautiful!♥👈🏾
I don’t have words to say how ist this world ... I love animal I don’t like humans hurt them
Amazing! ❤❤❤👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰
Super.super.happy life.
Lindo demais! É maravilhosa a dedicação de todos que foram e são a família do Little G. Que permitiram que a sua vida continuasse. Parabéns! ❤❤❤❤
Beautiful
What a heartwarming story. I’m so glad he’s doing well. What a sweetheart. ❤❤❤😊😊
Great story
precious baby boy . . . . hey wait, that's M Y stick !
God Bless you and prayers for our SENTIENT creatures from heaven and god guide them from extinction due to humans creating global boiling now for they are harmonious with nature and not of form mind and present the way humans should be ...God bless you all for your rescues I am sponsoring orphan elephants at David SELDRICH wildlife trust n am pleased to see you helping in your area ❤
Mi pequeño gran corazón de amor. Ojalá que la pérdida de la vida de tu mamá sea nuestro motivo para ser mejores, una especie mejor que la que somos ahora. 💜🌏
I've always wanted a pet Rhino. You know, to sleep with us on our beds like our cats do.
God bless...
I’m probably the only one in thinking this, but every time I see rhinoceros, I automatically think they are just giant armadillos even though I know they aren’t. The body form just looks like an armadillo to me.
Unique magnifique ❤❤❤❤
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I didn’t see him as you helped him to grow, how cute he was, I would hate to him to crash into someone when he did his zoomies 😂. But it was fantastic to see Adine it was him and well he remembered and that was a moving encounter!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
❤❤❤❤......👍🏼
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♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Espero que ele sobreviva e seja muito feliz!!!!!!!!
Beautiful beautiful animals..!!!!…🙏❤️
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Wait Gertjie knows Lammie :o
Rhinos should not be an endangered species, but RINOs should be.
my heart wasnt stolen...fk do i do now?
I can't get over the wonders in any of God's creatures. I can't quite handle some that I am afraid of ( I live near a creek, believe it or not.). But Rhinos are really really neat. God bless all efforts to help them to continue. I look forward to the day that Jesus Christ makes all things new. I look forward every day to the Second Advent of the Prince of Peace. John 3:16.
Avant l'homme comment les animaux faisaient ? Nous n'avons pas à intervenir ni en "bien" ni en "mal". Toutes les espèces évoluent sans la volonté et l'action de l'homme. Quand il y a la prédation, la maladie etc c'est comme ça que les choses avancent. Modifier par une quelconque volonté est une grave erreur puisqu'on va favoriser ce qui nous semble utile et défavoriser ce qui nous semble nuisible. Or seule l'ignorance est nuisible...
We are all on this Earth in this form for just a brief time. I hope that we can do good things for the Earth> we leave it all too soon for others to take up the mantle. The Earth is not ours to own. We can buy a piece of paper that says we have something, that we have a right to be there for a while. But paper soon fades and our eyesight fades and our abilities to uplift and be strong for others all too quickly becomes weak and we too are like defenseless babes in the woods. We should give a little from time to time for the benefit of others. Even if those others are flocks of birds or herds of bison. The Earth is our home, our mothers and our graves. We are all here now with a choice to act and behave with compassion and responsibility. The world needs so little from us, mostly just to care and not to hurt what we can't understand or value.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤🙌🏻❤🫶🏻❤🙌🏻❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Est-ce Lamie ? la brebis ou un autre mouton car la vidéo a 5 ans.🦏
It's so sad that the world has to have these two opposite forces to exist. One force is the destruction of nature, of beauty, of love and kindness and soul for the small amount of money earned from the death of others. Orphaned rhino and elephants are such victims of brutality. What was the price for Jesus? 20 silver coins I remember. Not that I am preaching. The world loses so much for such small gains. I hope that the money earned from such loss is worth it, that it feeds someone or helps someone. I know that many in the world will never see a proper bed or have even a clean, dry place to rest and call home. I am so lucky, or blessed, as you like to say. But the cost of our burdens on the rest of the world is high. I am glad to see the opposite, the restoration of kindness and love and trust in the acts of others. Even small acts of kindness can restore so much in the world. Try it. Do something small every now and then. Just buy a bag of some decent fast-food for someone standing on a street corner with a small cardboard hand written sign asking for a little help. Just a little from each of us can be powerful in the aggregate. We are truly powerful together.
Unicorn
Black, or white ? BIG ISSUE.
weird
The Rhino is my favorite. We need to protect these majestic animals and and all animals from extinction. There should be a shoot on site law towards poachers. No questions asked
Just amazing 😅😅😊😊😊😊
@kennethavesato3883
6 ай бұрын
We are life of this world accept it and live it with😊😊😊 them
I think there just might be hope for the world after all. ❤🦏🦏