Rhino charging but oh so genteelly!

I spend some of my photographic time trying to capture the essence of wild animals in their natural environment. I have seen Rhinos fighting on a couple of occasions and also observed other rhino behaviour numerous times and I am often left with a feeling of contradiction and humour. After all they are huge imposing prehistoric looking animals with horns! However, they mostly appear docile. Even when they fight and run at each other there is a comical feel to the moment. When they actually strike horns, the the sparring is frantic and intense for only a few seconds and injury IS caused but at the same time there is an awful lot of stand off time and a feeling that they are fencing but in a friendly and gentlemanly manner! It is most bizarre but fun to watch and capturing this behaviour photographically is a major challenge. So here I wanted to make the viewer feel as if they were about to go head to head with a rhino as if both charging each other about to lock horns but at the same time wanted to make it feel as if despite the ground level head on composition, that it somehow does not feel as dangerous as it appears which is exactly how it looks when you see rhino come together for real. What makes it more comical is the high pitched hyena type squeal that comes with it! Do you think I captured this contradiction with this image? I hope so! I had to rush around to the front of this rhino as he made is way across the bush towards me and use the undulation of the ground which I observed to my advantage to get low relative to him. So here I am at a lower level and he is reaching the brow of the undulation which allowed me to compose like this from a vehicle (too dangerous to come out).
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