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Reference Base  The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora a... |
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The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata |
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Sclater, W.L. |
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1900 |
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London, R.H. Porter |
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pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
White Rhino
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| they are very fond of wallowing in pools and plastering themselves all over with clay and mud |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In fact at the present time Zululand, the Lydenburg district (where a few are preserved) the Beira-Zambesi country and perhaps Ovampoland, seem to be their last haunts south of the Zambesi. |
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Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| horns composed of a solid mass of epidermic cells, somewhat resembling hairs, but growing from a cluster of free dermic papillae instead of, as in true hairs, from a sunken follicle ; the horns are not in any way attached to the underlying skull, nor does any bony matter take part in their compos... |
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Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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| Anterior horn rising from the nasal bones, rounded at the base, where it is often rough and frayed out, so to speak, above becoming laterally flattened and greatly curved backwards, usually exceeding the posterior horn in length; this latter is situated on the frontal bones just above the eye and... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| while in the Orange Free State the last recorded was killed in 1842, at Rhenoster Kop, just south of the Vaal River in the Kroonstad district. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. There are still said to be a few surviving in Zululand, where they are very strictly preserved, and where, perhaps, they may have a chance of increasing if proper precautions are observed but even of these, six are said to have been killed in 1894, one of which is now exhibi... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In fact at the present time Zululand, the Lydenburg district (where a few are preserved) the Beira-Zambesi country and perhaps Ovampoland, seem to be their last haunts south of the Zambesi |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| In fact at the present time Zululand, the Lydenburg district (where a few are preserved) the Beira-Zambesi country and perhaps Ovampoland, seem to be their last haunts south of the Zambesi. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. in 1895, Mr. Arthur Eyre shot a fine male north of the Ayrshire mine near Mazoe, in northeast Mashonaland; this specimen was purchased by Mr. Rhodes and presented by him to the South African Museum, where the mounted skin and skeleton are now exhibited. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. during the seventies and early eighties, it was practically exterminated in Ngamiland, Matabeleland and Mashonaland, where it had formerly been exceedingly common. |
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