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| Title: |
Les rhinoceros congolais |
| Author(s): |
Schouteden, H. |
| Year published: |
1927 |
| Journal: |
Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) |
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4 (1) |
| Pages: |
19-30, figs. 1-3 |
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently. |
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently. |
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Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| Both African species prefer land with shrubs or savannah. The black species is sometimes found in small forest areas in West Africa. This species does not mind much about the vicinity of water, as its food contains enough moisture. |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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| The white rhino is often accompanied by oxpeckers (Buphaga) which alarm when something is approaching. |
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Ecology - Habitat
White Rhino
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| Both African species essentially live in land with shrubs and savannah. The white rhino looks for shrub country. Its food is quite dy, fow hcih reason it tries to find places near to natural sources of water. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The origin of the name white is in the past and comes from the Boers, who first saw the white rhino in South Africa. They eveidently saw it coming from some mudbath, covered in greyish or whitish mud. The name witte rhenoster, which they gave to this species, has unfortunately stuck in many lan... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Despite the name white rhino, the animal is the same colour as the black species. Normally, both are a colour from clear olive to ashy grey, or grey-black. |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
White Rhino
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| The white rhino is more peaceful than the black. While the black does not hesitate to charge, the white rhino does not get to its feet that easily. I remember to have been told by an excellent sportsman who hunted in the Sudan, that he was surprised that when he approached the rhino seated on a... |
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White Rhino
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| The origin of the name white is in the past and comes from the Boers, who first saw the white rhino in South Africa. They eveidently saw it coming from some mudbath, covered in greyish or whitish mud. The name witte rhenoster, which they gave to this species, has unfortunately stuck in many lan... |
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Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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| In the black species one sometimes finds individuals of which the posterior horn is longer than the anterior one, a race once called keitloa. |
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Les rhinoceros congolais
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