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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 - Towards Man
White Rhino
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| The White Rhino of my experience does not charge on scent like the Black, but it is nevertheless well to be wary, for now and then the beast will turn on the hunter with as much ferocity as its Black relation. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black 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. A Black Rhino f... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t... |
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History
White Rhino
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| For many years European Museums have possessed isolated examples of a square-based Rhinoceros horn said to have come from the north of the Zambezi, but the first definite proof of the beast's existence was a single skull from Lado, which found its way to America in 1900.
Nothing further was hear... |
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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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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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Specimen shot in Lado enclave, Sudan.
The square-based horn was unusually massive, and measured 28 1/4 inches in length. |
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Black rhinoceros hunting
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