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| Title: |
Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels |
| Author(s): |
Wilhelm, J.H. |
| Year published: |
1950 |
| Journal: |
Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society |
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7 |
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1-7 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| As soon as a rhino hears even the slightest noise, it will run away. The animal therefore is shy rather than aggressive. Often, when it smells people in the vicinity, the rhino will run towards the site of danger, what however is not to be seen as an aggressive movement. Sometimes it will actu... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| Smaller trees which stand in their way are often uprooted like they were playing. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| At night it walks to drink in the rivers or large pans in the Omuramben. Deep paths lead to the individual drinking places and from there back into the thornbush, where the rhino has many sleeping places. Many paths lead to these resting places, which are often found under a large shadowy tree. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| The rhino rests lying on its belly, the eras constantly moving. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Memory
Black Rhino
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| The rhino is sometimes full of curiosity. One night a male and female came to within 60 m from my car and stood there to observe me. They only fled when the dogs barked. A male returned to a female that was shot during the night and stood with the dead animal for a long time, and slowly walked... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| The rhino lives alone or in pairs, sometimes a pair with a young. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| The rhino deposits the dung on very specific places near the paths and loosens these with the hind legs. No animal of the species will pass such a dung pile without depositing dung or urinating. This habit is a way of communication for all passing rhinos. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| It seems that rhino sometimes hed their horns. In any case local people sometimes bring horns for sale which also show signs of lying in the sun for a long time, and which they say to have found in the bush. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| It likes to wallow in muddy places, lying on its side like a pig. One finds these wallows everywhere in rhino country. |
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Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels
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