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Rhinoceros |
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Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. |
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1932 |
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pp. 113-115 |
| Reference From: | Maydon, H.C. 1932 Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14), pp. 1-445 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| Attack on train in Kenya
The Black Rhino is pig-like both mentally and physically and little or no provocation is required to make it take the offensive. On at least one occasion in the earlier days of the Kenya-Uganda railway it charged an approaching train, meeting it obliquely near the front... |
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Black Rhino are as fond as the White species of wallowing in mud or rolling in dust, which gives their hides a variety of shades, from grey to red. |
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Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
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| A good average horn will be about 20 inches on the front curve in South Central Africa, and one of 28 inches would, nowadays, be quite good in Kenya. |
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Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
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| A full-grown male stands upwards of five feet at the shoulder and weighs over a ton. |
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Black Rhino
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| A full-grown male stands upwards of five feet at the shoulder and weighs over a ton. |
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Rhinoceros
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