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Black rhinoceros hunting |
| Author(s): |
Powell Cotton, P.H.G. |
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1932 |
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pp. 115-119 |
| Reference From: | Maydon, H.C. 1932 Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14), pp. 1-445 |
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Museums - Europe
Museums
White Rhino
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| Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. This specimen has been set up whole... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| In South Africa, less than one hundred years ago, a traveller in Magaliesberg (North-west Transvaal), counted over eighty white Rhino in one day's march. Now, unfortunately, the sole survivors are said to be some half dozen specimens, which the Natal Government are endeavouring to protect. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. This specimen has been set up whole... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Museums
White Rhino
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| Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. This specimen has been set up whole... |
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World
Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| The White Rhino is a grass feeder with a wide square mouth as its most distinctive feature, while the narrow-jawed Black type subsists on thorn twigs gathered with its pointed prehensile upper lip. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The term 'White' first applied to Rhino by the Boers of South Africa, is misleading, for while the texture of the skin of Rhinoceros simus differs from that of the Black species, the colour of the hide is only a slightly lighter shade of slatey grey. The animal, however, is fond of bathing in mu... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis. In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| For many years European Museums have possessed isolated examples of a square-based Rhinoceros horn said to have come from the north of the Zambezi, but the first definite proof of the beast's existence was a single skull from Lado, which found its way to America in 1900.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. |
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Black rhinoceros hunting
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