(http://f5.folha.uol.com.br/humanos/1215606-casal-e-fotografado-segundos-antes-de-ataque-de-rinocerontes-veja.shtml)

Casal é fotografado segundos antes de ataque de rinocerontes

16/01/2013 - 09h21
DE SÃO PAULO

Um casal de Johannesburgo, na África do Sul, não imaginava o que iria lhe suceder após ser fotografado em uma reserva natural no país.

Chantal Beyer, 24, e seu marido estavam fazendo um passeio de carro por um parque onde havia animais selvagens, quando o dono do local, Alex Richter, sugeriu que os dois posassem para uma foto.

Ignorando o perigo, Richter pediu que o casal se aproximasse de rinocerontes que estavam no local.

Quando Beyer e seu parceiro foram fotografados por Richter, os rinocerontes começaram a atacá-los.

Segundo informou o site "Gawker", o estado de saúde do casal é estável.

Richter liderava um grupo de nove pessoas que fazia um tour pela reserva. Ele teria insistido que era seguro sair do veículo e se aproximar dos animais.

	Reprodução

"A Johannesburg resident was still in intensive care today — several days after being gored by a rhino while on a game drive through the Aloe Ridge nature reserve in Muldersdrift.

A photo released by Chantal Beyer's family shows the 24-year-old and her husband standing perilously close to a pair of rhinos just seconds before the attack that left her with a collapsed lung and broken ribs.

Beyer's uncle told a local newspaper that his niece is in currently in stable condition.

Thom Peeters said Beyer told him that she and her husband were advised by the game park owner, Alex Richter, to "stand just a little bit closer" to the rhinos so he could take their picture.

Richter was leading a group of nine on a tour of the reserve when he stopped the car near the rhinos and lured them closer with some food. He insisted it was safe to exit the vehicle and approach the animals.

"There were quite a lot of young people on the vehicle and they probably felt they could trust Richter, who was an adult," Peeters said."

(http://gawker.com/5976173/game-park-owner-who-advised-couple-to-stand-closer-to-rhinos-snapped-this-forebodding-photo-seconds-before-they-were-attacked?tag=Seconds-From-Disaster)