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Ollie deciding whether or not to charge

           A HUGE superstar at this place is Ollie, a good natured (seemingly) but oafish baby rhino.  Ollie has been raised here, and he is, I think, the most delicate baby here.  He even has a portion of the sink in the clinic devoted entirely to the preparation of his food.  Everything that goes in his mouth is sterilized many times over and he can only have low fat milk.
          Funny.  "Delicate" is not a term that readily comes to mind when one sees Ollie.  He looks at you, and you can see that his very small brain is doing something.  Thinking is too strong a term.  If you stand still, he eventually charges you.  I have a bruise on my leg that will be a claim to fame for years to come.  How many can point at a leg and say they were charged by a rhino?
          Ollie is a black rhino, which is very rare.  More common are the white rhinos.  There is an adult one of those hanging around here--name of  Philemon--but I can really see no difference.
          And lucky Jamie (of giraffe Melmin fame) is also Ollie's mom, and he is truly besotted with her.  Comes when she calls, chases after her, and is blissful when she pets him.  He is very cute.



AND, he likes to be where the action is.  Here he is, inviting himself into the student commons area where everybody else is hanging out,so why shouldn't he?