Fischer, A., 1914. Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia |
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Distribution - Records |
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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 already on the list of extinct animals when the age of the great hunters came to an end. People had hardly taken the trouble to observe it carefully. The name by itself was not really enough. Duncan killed the last white rhino in 1870 near Olifantkloof, the last one that was heard from. In 1910 came the observation by Oberleutnant Kaufmann, who saw the white rhino `in a few examples' in the German Zambezi-Linjanti area, followed by Diplomingenieur Kunz, who found it numerous in the northern Kaokoveld in 1911 and 1912. Once again had the remoteness of the northwest and northeast kept an old family from extinction.
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