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Sclater, W.L., 1900. The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Behaviour - Towards Man |
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White Rhino |
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The square-mouthed rhinoceros is always spoken of as a most mild and inoffensive creature, very sluggish and unsuspicious; its sight is very bad, though scent and hearing seem to be acute; this no doubt is so, and accounts to a great extent for its almost total extermination, but at the same time it has been known to charge Oswell, Livingstone's companion had his horse transfixed under him by an enraged individual, though Oswell himself escaped with only a severe shaking.
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