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| Title: |
Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936 |
| Author(s): |
Daly, M. |
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1937 |
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London, MacMillan |
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pp. i-xi, 1-322 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Hunting
African Rhino Species
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| Elephant, rhino and buffalo in this short scrub bush would be easy to meet and beat, but here even a good hunter gives away points to the lion, which may charge him straight or swerve; and its pace is always faster than it appears to be. In the Tsavo country, while after a very big bull elephant... |
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Africa - Western Africa
Ecology - Habitat
White Rhino
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| West Africa. Their natural habitation was the soft green, thornless bush country and were often to be met with in parties of three to a dozen and more, browsing in the open like great cattle. While the slaughter was at its height many of the survivors took to heavy country, where this class of ... |
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Africa
Behaviour - Locomotion
African Rhino Species
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| I am glad to say that I took no part in this, refusing all big offers made to me from time to time to take charge of one or other of these slaughtering parties. These rhino are not so playful as the black rhino and not so fast. A black rhino can easily outrun the average hunting pony and keep g... |
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World
Morphology
White Rhino
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| The so-called white rhino (Ceratotherium simus) is much the same colour as the black rhino, and I have seen some black rhinos actually lighter than they are. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Senses
Black Rhino
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| Many hold that the rhino is very poor-sighted. But take the following facts and consider whether their sight can really be as poor as made out, particularly by night.
I was camped in the bush down in the lower Wakamba country among the thorn-trees growing very close together, trunks only some s... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The so-called white rhino (Ceratotherium simus) is much the same colour as the black rhino, and I have seen some black rhinos actually lighter than they are. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| Most apparent charges are really made in its endeavors to break through and get away. Those are easy to discriminate between if the rhino can be seen. A steady advance with the ears pricked forward towards one is a most dangerous sign, and one must quickly and quietly give way or face it. A ch... |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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| Rhinos are sometimes taken by crocodiles through their own stupidity. A croc will never tackle a rhino while actually drinking, as it will a buffalo, by grabbing or closing its great jaws over the mouth, but waits till the rhino turns leisurely to walk out. Then it fastens on to one or other of... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Memory
Black Rhino
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| One evening, camped on the banks of the Upper T'savo River, I had another chance to study the black rhino by night. My tent was pitched near the bank of the river, running some six feet below the tipper level of the bank where my tent stood. Just behind and a little to one side stood my natives... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| Comparison with buffalo
Much has been said about the comparative aggressiveness of buffalo and rhino. Some hold that a rhino is easier turned than a buffalo, and so on. Lone buffalo bulls will often be found, like rhinos, trying to get away and avoid trouble, and their intentions are just as ea... |
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Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936
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