 | Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 |
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Morphology - Size
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| However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m. |
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| Zukowsky, L. 1922 Vorlaeufige Mitteilung ueber eine neue Art des Spitzschnauz-Nashorns aus Sudwest-Afrika.. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A (7): 162-163 |
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Black Rhino
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| Opsiceros occidentalis spec.nov.
Typus aus dem Kaokofeld-Kunene Gebiet. No. 40056 des Nat.Mus. Hamburg. % jun., ca. 3 2 Jahre alt. Skelett u. Fell gesammelt von Carl Hagenbeck. Lebte 10 VII 1914 - 15 X 1916 in Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark.
Allgemeine Kennzeichen. Viel kleiner als O. bicorn... |
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| Zukowsly, L. 1922 Wissenschaftliche Bemerkungen uber das Wild des Kaokofeldes: pp. i-xxv
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| Kaufmann, H.W. 1916 Meine Erlebnisse in Deutsch-Sudwestafrika 1913-1916: Tagebuchblatter. Bonn, Johs. Schergens, pp. 1-112 |
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Black Rhino
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| Elephant and rhino are found further to the north in the Kaokofeld up to the Portuguese border. |
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| Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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Black Rhino
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| In Koes, on the southern edge of the Kalahari, I was shown bones and horns, found in quicksand, a certain evidence that the animal once lived here. About 1840, the first men had come to live here, Orlam from the Karas mountains and Berseba. They built huts on the dunes, and compelled the game t... |
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| Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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White Rhino
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| The white rhinoceros could resist the onslought by firearms even less than the elephant. Its size, 2.5 m height, 4 m length, was no protection and the double horns on its nose was no longer a weapon. It was exterminated without battle. That was a short history.
The white rhinoceros was alread... |
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| Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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Black Rhino
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| In the north east, along the Okavango, the rhinoceros still lives, in a small number. A few place names are all that we have to remember them. Bteween Otjimbingue and Karibib is Okangava, the place of the black rhinoceros. About this we read in Johanna Gertze, the first Herero author, in 1858 ... |
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| Range, P. 1914 Beitraege und Ergaenzungen zur Landeskunde des deutschen Namalandes. Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen Kolonialinstituts 30: 1-120 |
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Black Rhino
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| Elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros and giraffe have disappeared from the region. That the rhino lived in this area previously is evidenced by the horns which are often found. |
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| Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros battled for life. |
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| Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros was regarded as the most dangerous game, had first place among the five deadly enemies of men, and used to attack the locals without reason. But when the white men came, the rhinoceros charged. |
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