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| Title: |
Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains |
| Author(s): |
Babault, G. |
| Year published: |
1949 |
| Journal: |
Mammalia |
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13 |
| Pages: |
1-16 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| The females are a lot more numerous than the males; they live in small groups whereas the males are very often isolated. |
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World
Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| His square superior lip facilitates him to hold the herbs which it cuts off easily. He browses more than the black rhinoceros and eats less foliage. It is a fact which one can see in the dung that he deposits in heaps in one place that he frequents and doesn't go too far away from. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| This animal customarily lives among spiny bushes, but one also finds it in forests and on mountains. Although sedentary, he sometimes moves and goes far in the arid plains. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Senses
Black Rhino
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| The small birds that they carry warn them of the approach of a danger while flying off, but when these are absent and when one approaches with a favorable wind, one can come very close to them without bothering them. We had this experience with a car. We drove around in the savanna, far from all... |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Their favorite food is the foliage of the acacias, but they know how to break down the cactiform euphorbias to eat them, when the latex doesn't flow anymore. |
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World
Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| His square superior lip facilitates him to hold the herbs which it cuts off easily. He browses more than the black rhinoceros and eats less foliage. It is a fact which one can see in the dung that he deposits in heaps in one place that he frequents and doesn't go too far away from. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| This animal customarily lives among spiny bushes, but one also finds it in forests and on mountains. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Locomotion
Black Rhino
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| In spite of his stoutness, the black rhinoceros is very agile, he turns very quickly and very short, if he wants, and his speed is high and can be over 50 km/hour. It is capable to sustain this for a long time; during an experience, we timed a female for several miles: at one time, she reached 56... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Senses
Black Rhino
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| The poor eyesight of these enormous beasts is maybe reason of his stupidity, because they are incapable to distinguish a man at 50 meters and are surprised to suddenly find a thing or a being that could be an enemy. At this short distance the only defense open to them seems to be an inconsiderat... |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Their favorite food is the foliage of the acacias, but they know how to break down the cactiform euphorbias to eat them, when the latex doesn't flow anymore. |
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Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains
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