Jean-Pierre Hallet was a former Belgian colonial official who wrote a couple of corking best-sellers (Congo Kitabu, Pygmy Kitabu) back in the 1960s.. He was a huge man:I met him once, when he gave a lecture at Rutgers.
Hallet’s theme was that any animal, if it receives enough love and kindness, could be trained to friendship with a human. To prove it, he tamed a rhinoceros. He used to ride it around.
There really is so much that love can do! Give it a chance.