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| Title: |
Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains |
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Babault, G. |
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1949 |
| Journal: |
Mammalia |
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13 |
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1-16 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Daily Routine
White Rhino
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| 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 - Uganda
Behaviour - Towards Man
White Rhino
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| One says this species less aggressive that the other, however we noted close to Aba that a small truck had been attacked by one them and that the one which we have killed for the Museum of Paris, a male, attacked us without the least provocation. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| The young defend their mother courageously. Here is the proof: in the company of Baron Miville, of the Museum of Basel, who shot a female, we were attacked on two occasions by her calf while we stripped it. We found in her body a fetus, which already showed the nails and the beginning of horns. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| The females appeared to us to be alone with their young or in small groups. |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| On the way to Khartoum, Colonel Barker, Game Warden of Sudan, showed us three bags of horns of white rhinos coming from our neighboring colony. They contained horns of all sizes, some of which came from young animals. He asked us to help him stop the massacre of this interesting animal, which i... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Reproduction
Black Rhino
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| Kenya. 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. |
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Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains
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