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| Title: |
Le rhinoceros blanc |
| Author(s): |
Schouteden, H. |
| Year published: |
1911 |
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Revue Zoologique Africaine |
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1 |
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118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Chad
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Horns. Locality: Lake Chad. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Mus. Tervuren has a horn donated by Mr. De la K?thulle, brought from the region of Rafai, near Tchad. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Since the start of the 19th century, the white rhino has been so intensively hunted by white and indigenous hunters that at the moment it is practically gone from the region. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. Almost disappeared from southern Africa. A few individuals still exist, especially in Zululand. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In 1900 the first skull with exactly known origin was reported in Europe (from where it went to USA) by Major Gibbons: that skull belonged to an animal killed in the neighbourhood of Lado.
In 1902, captain Hawker brought to England a horn of a white rhinoceros which he had received from Belgian ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Recently, Berger (1910) mentioned that a white rhinoceros was shot in the northern part of the country of the Somalis. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Chad
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The British Museum has two horns of the white rhinoceros which were brought from the area around Lake Chad at the end of the 19 th century. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire)
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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I can state that Rhinoceros simus also exists in the Uelle, that is the north of Belgian Congo.
Mus. Tervuren has an anterior horn, 67.5 cm, part of the ethnographical collections of Mr. Fraipont, recently acquired by the museum, from the district of Uelle, Congo.
[Julien Fraipont, 1857-191... |
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Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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| Horns of different lengths. The museum has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In Zululand in 1903, Mr. Saunders saw two specimens killed by local people near their village. A photo taken of one of these animals is the only photo known of the species, together with that made in 1870 by Mr. H?ritte en published in 1908 by Lydekker. |
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Le rhinoceros blanc
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