Daly, M., 1937. Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya |
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Behaviour - Towards Man |
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Black Rhino |
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Most apparent charges are really made in its endeavors to break through and get away. Those are easy to discriminate between if the rhino can be seen. A steady advance with the ears pricked forward towards one is a most dangerous sign, and one must quickly and quietly give way or face it. A charge across a clearance or through light bush, with both cars pricked forward, where a rhino can clearly see its man and charges towards him, is a death charge and must be met. Even if such a charging rhino should, for a few moments, lose sight of its target, it will turn and hunt round for it. In the bush or clearance a rushing rhino with both cars going in all directions is seeking an outlet and will pass within a few feet of one without pausing. It is well to understand these signs as many a poor rhino has been shot as a charging rhino while, as a matter of fact, it was doing its best to avoid one. In a big forest, as a rule, rhinos are not so dangerous as in the thorn-scrub country. The reason is that in a forest there is not that nerve-jarring, snapping, cracking, scraping, scratching noise to be heard in the scrub country. The rhino can locate the intruder easier and get away silently. The ground, too, is soft and springy, and not hard, noisy and gravelly.
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