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| Title: |
Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains |
| Author(s): |
Babault, G. |
| Year published: |
1949 |
| Journal: |
Mammalia |
| Volume: |
13 |
| Pages: |
1-16 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| During droughts. As the elephants, the rhinoceroses know how to dig wells during severe droughts; they certainly do it in the same manner. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceroses are rather nocturnal. They pass the whole middle of the day sleeping, often in the shade of the trees in a dry river bed.
Although sedentary, he sometimes moves and goes far in the arid plains.
At night, these animals show more activity, they play and simulate fights,... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| Like them, they have permanent pathways, but these are only well marked close to their den. Their trails are little distinct, except in the difficult or very often frequented places, and one realizes that they go either left or right without worrying about it. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
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 favourable wind, one can come very close to them without bothering them. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| They have the habit to urinate to the same place, every day, in the bottom of a ravine where the rocks are whitened by urine. Contrary to the white rhinoceros, they don't deposit their dung in one place, but they disperse it by kicking it with their legs. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| Intelligence is little developed in the rhinoceros which, in actual fact, is just a brute. He attacks what he sees and doesn't realize the dangers of his attack. So every year, some are killed by the locomotives of the Uganda Railway. The poor eyesight of these enormous beasts is maybe reason ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| The rhinoceroses, taken while young, become tame very well and attach themselves to their master to the point of being bothersome (Hartley). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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| They have an antipathy for elephants, but don't dare to attack them. |
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World
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| They have the habit to urinate to the same place, every day, in the bottom of a ravine where the rocks are whitened by urine. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Culture
Black Rhino
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| The Maasais that live in the country of the rhinos say that the females only have two or three calves, because they are torn by the horn of the young while putting it to the world. We don't believe it, because one often meets the mothers having very long horns, which shows an advanced age. Thes... |
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Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains
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