This is Leeroy.

Beautiful, regal and dangerously powerful, he is the Werribee Open Plain Zoo's very own white rhino. Born in September 1980, Leeroy is the oldest white rhino at the zoo.

Now even too old and unsociable to mingle with his fellow rhinos, he roams the back paddocks of Werribee, out of public view and peaceful in his solitude.

Searching for our hero we found Leeroy embodied the very essence of what we stand for at WhiteRhino. Strong, fearless, and utterly breathtaking he is truly one of a kind. Later set against a collage of rural Victorian landscape images, the talented Scott Newett spent a day capturing the perfect photo of this fiercely magnificent creature.

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Quick to become moody in the presence of others, it wasn't long into shooting before Leeroy revealed the antics which first earned him his solitude. Snorting wildly and pawing at the ground, Leeroy prepared to charge at the quaking camera crew.

Gathering speed and fury with each attempt, Leeroy repeatedly hurled himself violently towards the single electric wire separating him from the photographer. A two and a half tonne cannonball flying wildly towards us only to pull up short in a cloud of dust at the last possible second.

Though temperamental in his old age, Leeroy is nothing short of magnificent and the memory of our incredible experience with him still takes our breath away.

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