Renshaw, G., 1904. Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa |
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Distribution - Records |
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White Rhino |
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Subsequent investigations have demonstrated that the white rhinoceros was once widely distributed over South Africa, wherever the grasslands were adapted to its habits, extending from the Orange River in the south as far north as the Zambesi. We may conveniently take 1812 as representing the era of prosperity, the open veldt then being dotted with peaceful groups of white rhinoceroses - father, mother, and calf - or with solitary individuals standing motionless, awake but stupid, in soulless meditation.
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