 Reference Base  Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete de... |
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Heuglin, T. von, 1877. Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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[There is a drawing of an African rhinoceros, R. keitloa.] It is very probable that the rhinoceros of Abyssinia and from Takah should be regarded as a variety of the two-horned African species (Rh. africanus, camp. - Rh. bicornis, Smith). The size, colour, shape of the horns, folds in the skin, shape of the upper lip and the head change so much in each individual and according to location, sex and age, that no strict boundaries can be drawn between these two varieties. I cannot say from my own experience if Rh. simus is a separate species. On the upper part of the White Nile a kind of rhinoceros occurs, which could be that species as it has a very long front horn, up to 3 ? feet or even more.
From the rhinoceros which occurs in Takah, Homran, Qalabat and on the Anseba I only obtained young specimens, which are similar to the one described by Blanford, and I often saw apparently adult animals, in which the front horn was only 6 inches longer than the second one. The anterior horn has an almost round circumference, is bent upwards and backwards, on the front side provided with an edge and strongly pointed. The posterior horn is more oval in circumference, sideways compressed, towards the tip two-sided and not bent.
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