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Title: Kenya
Author(s): Ritchie, A.T.A.
Year published: 1932
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Pages: pp. 250-258
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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
They have also suffered more in recent years from native poachers, for they are, of course, easily killed by the bush folk with their deadly poisoned arrows; and the high value and portability of Rhino horn, and the greed of Indian and Arab middlemen have supplied the incentive.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The distribution of Rhino in Kenya is somewhat similar to that of Elephant: practically identical in the eastern part of the Colony, in fact, but less extensive to the west.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Unlike the restless Elephant on his perpetual round of feeding grounds and water holes, Rhino remain year in and year out in their own little patch of bush or forest, and to move a family of them needs considerable and persistent persecution. They have thus suffered more than Elephant by the ope...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Two types of black rhino. There is a widespread belief among the natives that there are two distinct Rhino in Kenya, a forest and a bush type. It is said that the forest animal has longer legs-to allow him to get over fallen tree trunks which litter the forest paths-that he has a longer horn, a...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Anyone wanting to shoot a Rhino can find one in an hour if he chooses his times and seasons, and is content with a moderate trophy. One morning I counted the spoor of over a hundred which had watered during the night along a mile and a quarter of the northern Uaso Nyiro; most of them were away b...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
In spite of this, Kenya has still a vast number of these great beasts. They are nowadays found mostly in the thick mountain forests or the equally dense thornbush and sansevieria country; only in the Southern Game Reserve may one commonly expect to find them wandering on the open plains at high ...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
Kenya. I know of a 42-inch, a 38-inch, and a 37-inch, all three obtained in those forests not so very long ago, while a 20-inch horn is no bad trophy from a low-country beast.
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