Mildly cheerful news

[heliopausa]

Two Southern White Rhinos have been born at a safari park/zoo in Vietnam.  :)
https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/features/20190505/rarity-two-white-rhinos-successfully-delivered-in-vietnam/49886.html

They were actually born a couple of weeks back, but I guess their keepers/carers wanted to be absolutely sure that all was well with birth and post-birth and bonding and suckling, before making the announcement.

It's the Northern White Rhino which is on the verge of actual extinction, of course, but the Southern is endangered enough that two more successful births are good news.  Also, the news story noted that "the mother rhinos stayed within one meter of the baby rhinos most of the time. Meanwhile, the two calves themselves would not stop running around the playground, giving their mothers quite a tough time to catch up", which was a picture I found very endearing.

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[marmota_b]

Well, not really... It's a Marvel crossover / AU in which Loki ends up living in Britain and develops a deep fondness for rhinos and a powerful rhinoceros Patronus-style charm (which does a lot more than the Patronus does in the Harry Potter books). And on one memorable occasion, he asks a group of white rhinos at the Whipsnade Zoo to protect a group of schoolchildren during one of those world-threatening general-populace-threatening situations that the superhero genre revels in.
Do check out Housemates. It's probably my favourite fanfiction-y thing ever. And I'm not even familiar with the show it's crossed over with.