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Title: |
Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland |
Author(s): |
Swayne, H.G.C. |
Year published: |
1894 |
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |
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1894 |
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316-323 |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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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
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they are plentiful beyond in Galla-land. |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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They are common in south-eastern Haud. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Wiyil |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Value
African Rhino Species
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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
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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
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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
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They are said to exist to the south-east of Berbera, but I never saw any traces of them. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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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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