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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Ecology - Habitat |
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Black Rhino |
expedition Jan 1903 with L.J. Baird in South Ethiopia
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. 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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