A safari park keeper has been using his workplace as an unusual training ground for a tough assault course.

Graeme Alexander, 24, has been crawling through the rhinos' mud wallow, practising pull-ups in the elephant house and heaving hay bales as he prepares for the event later this month.

The Blair Drummond Safari Park worker, who is taking part in the Tough Mudder event at Dalkeith Country Estate on June 15 to raise money for the charities Tusk and Help for Heroes, said the rhinos "were quite interested because I was covered head to toe in mud and they came over to have a look".

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