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With the white rhinoceros in Zululand |
| Author(s): |
Astley-Maberly, C.T. |
| Year published: |
1938 |
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Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire |
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34 |
| Pages: |
52-55, fig. 1 |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The colour is certainly a lighter shade of slate-grey than that of the Black Rhino, though it cannot by the widest stretch of imagination be called white! Nevertheless, the smooth texture of the skin does produce a sort of 'white shiny' appearance when noticed at a distance in brilliant sunlight. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| A most memorable occasion was that when the two guides who were accompanying us, located and led us up to a slumbering family of five White Rhinos at midday. They lay flat upon their sides-like gigantic pigs-amongst the grass in the shade of a magnificent Umkudzlu tree. The family consisted of ... |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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| As usual, tick-birds (Buphaga) hunted about the hides of their great hosts. Suddenly one of these watchful birds noticed us, and, uttering a harsh, long-drawn ?chirrrrr' it fluttered anxiously into the air. Instantly the monsters stirred restlessly : tiny, almond-shaped eyes opened : and the se... |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| standing 6 feet at shoulder |
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With the white rhinoceros in Zululand
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