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| Title: |
Le rhinoceros blanc |
| Author(s): |
Schouteden, H. |
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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 - 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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Europe
Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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| Rhinoceros camus |
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World
Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros.
A. Morphological characteristics
1. The muzzle is truncated, squarely cut in the white rhino, and the upper lip does not extend in the middle. In the black rhino, the muzzle is more advanced to the front and the upper lip i... |
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History
White Rhino
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| Several indication in travel journals have given the possibility of the existence of the white rhinoceros in the White Nile region. But only 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 kil... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The white rhinoceros does not differ from the black in colour, as would appear from the name: the shades of the two species are just about identical, and we don't know why the old Boers baptized the Diceros simus as Wit Rhenoster, white rhinoceros. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The white rhinoceros does not differ from the black in colour, as would appear from the name: the shades of the two species are just about identical, and we don't know why the old Boers baptized the Diceros simus as Wit Rhenoster, white rhinoceros. |
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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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Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros.
A. Morphological characteristics
1. The muzzle is truncated, squarely cut in the white rhino, and the upper lip does not extend in the middle. In the black rhino, the muzzle is more advanced to the front and the upper lip i... |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Horns in Mus. Tervuren from Congo:
anterior horn 67.5 cm
anterior horn 62 cm |
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Taxonomy - Nomenclature
Black Rhino
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| The museum in Tervuren 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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Le rhinoceros blanc
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