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Black rhinoceros hunting |
| Author(s): |
Powell Cotton, P.H.G. |
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1932 |
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pp. 115-119 |
| 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 - Sudan
Behaviour - Daily Routine
White Rhino
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| Here they were in the habit of feeding and drinking during the night, but before dawn broke they set out on a four or five hours' trek to thorn scrub, in which to lie up for the day. This habit was most regular in the vicinity of the Belgian posts, where parties of native hunters were often sent... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
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| With my second Rhino we had a lively encounter. In the first glow of dawn we had set out from camp, east of the lake, in pursuit of Giraffe, and soon picked up some fresh tracks that led us over a low hill. From its brow a fine view opened out below us, across a wide plain teeming with herds of... |
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World
Distribution - Hunting
All Rhino Species
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| The brain is so small and so well protected by the horns that a front shot is almost impossible. It is well to aim low behind the shoulder or in the middle of the neck, but when the beast is facing, and a shot cannot be placed inside the shoulder, an aim to break the upper part of the leg is adv... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Hunting
White Rhino
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| Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. One April night the stillness was broken by the hungry grunting of a Lion close to camp, and in... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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| One April night the stillness was broken by the hungry grunting of a Lion close to camp, and in the early morning we set out in search of tracks. Suddenly we caught sight of a Rhino, stretched at ease, head from us, with a number of Rhinoceros birds moving about its back. To fire at a prostrate... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Behaviour - Daily Routine
White Rhino
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| A peculiarity of both the White and Black varieties is the custom of resorting to the same spot day by day to deposit their dung, and these middens are a useful record to the hunter in search of fresh tracks. |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| The White Rhino is only exceeded in bulk by the Elephant, and a fully adult bull standing 5 feet to 5 feet 6 inches would weigh well over a ton. |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| The White Rhino is a grass feeder with a wide square mouth as its most distinctive feature, while the narrow-jawed Black type subsists on thorn twigs gathered with its pointed prehensile upper lip. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The term 'White' first applied to Rhino by the Boers of South Africa, is misleading, for while the texture of the skin of Rhinoceros simus differs from that of the Black species, the colour of the hide is only a slightly lighter shade of slatey grey. The animal, however, is fond of bathing in mu... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear. |
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Black rhinoceros hunting
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