Maud, P., 1904. Exploration in the southern borderland of Abyssinia. Geographical Journal, London 23 (5): 552-579
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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Expedition Jan 1903 with L.J. Baird. Its banks are fringed with tropical vegetation, but a few yards away from the river one is confronted by thick thorn bush, through which it was often difficult to find a way for the caravan. Elephant and rhino tracks were ubiquitous. These monsters are certainly the best road-makers in Africa; but for their engineering efforts in this line our progress would have been much slower. Baird shot a good rhino. Among the hills some of the rhino paths were extraordinarily well graded. Unfortunately, the rhino has a hide some 3/4 of an inch thick, and so does not see the necessity of clearing the thorn bush from over his road. An elephant is more considerate, he makes a clean sweep of everything in his path.
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Exploration in the southern borderland of Abyssinia
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