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Reference Base  South African mammals: a short manual for the use of fiel... |
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South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers |
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Haagner, A. |
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1920 |
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London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller |
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pp. i-xx, 1-248 |
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Taxonomy
Black Rhino
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| Genus DICEROS. Large and clumsy animals with thick skins almost devoid of hairs, these being found only on the tall and ears. Eyes extremely small for the size of the animal. There are two horns growing from the upper surface of the face; these horns are not attached to the skull, nor are they... |
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Black Rhino
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| The terminal two-thirds of the tail is provided with bristles. |
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White Rhino
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| The tail is provided with a tuft of stiff bristly hair. |
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Black Rhino
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| It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food. |
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Captive - Africa
Captivity - Zoo Records
Black Rhino
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| The National Collection possesses two of these animals, a bull from German East Africa and a cow from South Central Rhodesia. The former is becoming very troublesome now, although quiet enough for the first eight years of his life in captivity ; the latter is quiet and tractable, and will follow... |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Height at shoulder 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet 6 inches. |
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White Rhino
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| Length of front horn 35 to 50 inches. Record 62 ? inches; rear horn 17.8 inches. |
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White Rhino
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| Tail 2 feet |
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