Rhino falls in love with a car dumped in enclosure as sculpture exhibit

Rhino Jango has become a real art lover - after falling for a car dumped in a pond as a sculpture exhibit.

Zoo bosses put the motor in his enclosure as a way of raising awareness about pollution’s impact on animals in the wild but smitten Jango took a shine to the old banger and now treats it like a mate.



Zoo visitor David Rogers said: "He was in the pond for an hour and he kept giving the car affectionate nibbles. Then he tried to climb on it from the back and front. Every now and again he would climb out of the water and gallop round his cage for 10 minutes before jumping back in the water. It was like he was trying to show off."

The car wreck is part of a project at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, to reveal the grim conditions animals face in the wild.