Croc Hunter's family flee rhino charge

A stage-managed photocall almost ended in horror after the late Steve Irwin's family were charged by a rhino at their zoo.

His widow Terri and children Bindi and Robert were showing the media their new Southern White rhino calf, Savannah, when its mother Cabelle became protective.

Mrs Irwin grabbed seven-year-old Robert as Cabelle suddenly charged towards them while they sat on a log in the rhino enclosure at Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane in Queensland.

Robert said Cabelle was a "very good mother" for trying to protect her calf.

"Who are you talking about?" Mrs Irwin joked, adding to Bindi: "You were on your own."

Known as the Crocodile Hunter, Irwin died in 2006 in a freak accident when he was speared by a stingray.