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Bland-Sutton, J., 1911. Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419
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Morphology - Horn |
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All Rhino Species |
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There is one use the rhinoceros has for its horn, and that is probably peculiar to it. After dropping its dung the animal turns round and charges the heap with its horn and wrathfully tosses the dung about; sometimes ploughing up deep holes in the ground with the nose and horn during this weird performance. Selous states that this applies to every prehensile lipped rhinoceros irrespective of the length of the posterior horn. The square mouthed species does not indulge in such antics, but when a small calf accompanies its mother, it always runs in front and she appears to guide it by holding the point of her horn upon the little animal's rump. Selous further states that in all sudden changes of pace from a trot to a gallop, or vice versa, the same position is always exactly maintained.
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