By RENE TORRES
The story of a love affair at the Gladys Porter Zoo took a turn for the worse when a white male rhinoceros made an unwelcomed advance.
A desperate attempt to get the attention of a female rhino went south when she got a bit frisky and shoved him into a canal.
Brownsville’s Public Utility Board (PUB) over the years has received some unusual calls in the line of duty, but in December of 1988, it had one of the strangest calls on record, and it came from the Zoo. It was a dire situation because zoo officials did not have the equipment to rescue the animal.
The call was made to PUB. Homer Trevino and Donato Herrera were two employees that were used to working with heavy equipment, but this situation was a bit unusual.
First, a backhoe was used to remove the rhino from the canal, but the monster lights were frightening to the rhino, and he kept on charging, making it a difficult rescue.
That was until PUB came up with an eye-catching idea—why not build a rock levee for the animal to climb out. After some in-depth thinking from the rhino, he eventually used it, and was out.
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