Photos: Help for Hope the Rhino (graphic content)

Hope, a rhino survivor, is settled in her pen after surgery Monday, June 8, 2015 at Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

(Courtney Quirin / AP)

Chicago Tribune

June 9, 2015 9:07 AM PT

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Medical officials are trying to help Hope the Rhino, who was darted by poachers who hacked off her horns while she was sedated. The attack happened in Lombardini, a wildlife park where poachers recently killed several other rhinos. Discovered alive days later, the rhino was named Hope by rescuers.

Hope, a rhino survivor, gets a shield fitted to her wounds during surgery Monday, June 8, 2015 at Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

(Courtney Quirin / AP)

Hope, a rhino survivor, undergoes surgery Monday, June 8, 2015 at Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

(Courtney Quirin / AP)

Hope, a rhino survivor, is turned during surgery Monday, June 8, 2015 at Shamwari Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

(Courtney Quirin / AP)

In this photo taken Friday, May 22, 2015 and supplied by Saving the Survivors, a rhino named Hope, stands in her pen in the Eastern Cape province, treated with a dressing where her horns used to be.

(Suzanne Boswell Rudham / AP)