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A starving baby rhino has been filmed desperately trying to feed from its dead mother who had been killed by poachers for her horn.
The heartbreaking footage was captured just last week in a national park in South Africa, by the rescue charity Rhino 911.
As the camera rolls the tiny one-month-old rhino can be heard calling for its mother as it tries to nudge her head and then suckle for milk.
Rescuers think that just hours earlier the female had been killed and then had both her horns hacked off.
Usually the poachers kill the calf too, despite it having no horn, as they often disturb the process of getting the horn, as they desperately cling to their mother.
At least in this case Lottie – as she has been dubbed – survived.