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Title: Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland
Author(s): Swayne, H.G.C.
Year published: 1894
Journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume: 1894
Pages: 316-323
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
They are most common in the valley of the Tug Fafan, and thence in the whole country as far as the Webbe.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
they are plentiful beyond in Galla-land.
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
They are common in south-eastern Haud.
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
Wiyil
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Value
African Rhino Species
SomalilandWe could usually cut from 15 to 30 shields from each rhinoceros, 3/4 inch thick and 15 inches in diameter, worth about a dollar apiece at the coast.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
For many years the rhinoceros has been known to exist in the interior of Somaliland, and going further in every year I have constantly been expecting to come upon their ground. The first Somali Rhinoceroses were shot by my brother and myself in our expedition to the Abyssinian border in August 1...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
They go to the river at night to drink and bathe. They travel considerable distances to the river and wander all night up and down the channel looking for a convenient pool, and making a maze of tracks in the soft sand.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
They are said to exist to the south-east of Berbera, but I never saw any traces of them.
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
They come far north of the range of the zebras, sometimes wandering as far as the open grass plains of Toyo, a 100 miles south of Berbera, where they hide in the patches of `durr' grass.
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Subject:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Somaliland. The ground they like best is very stony broken hills with some river-bed not too many miles distant, where thet can go at night to drink and bathe.
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