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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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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The common rhinoceros was formerly widespread throughout the whole of South Africa, though now it has been driven out of all the more accessible districts. At the end of the last century it was still common along the south coast of the Colony, Colonel Gordon shot one on the Gamka River, in what ... |
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Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| According to Hall the last one in the Colony, an old male, was shot in 1853, on the Coega River, close to Port Elizabeth |
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Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| LITERATURE.- Tachard (1686) p. 90, account of, with illustration;
Kolben (1731), ii, p. 101, a recognisable description of the black rhinoceros;
Camper, Act. Petrop. for 1777, pt. 2 (1780), p. l93, pls, v-viii, description of skull sent to author by Governor Baron van Plettenberg;
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| ears somewhat funnel-shaped with rounded tips, the [305] margins clothed with a fringe of black hair |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| nostril an elongated slit parallel to the mouth; |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| when moving along it holds its head high up, and if a calf is present it follows its mother instead of preceding it. |
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Behaviour - Senses
Black Rhino
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| very keen |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| as a rule they are solitary, or found associating in small parties of two or three individuals, though there may have been a good many in the neighbourhood; Harris, for instance, speaks of seeing eighty in one day. |
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Black Rhino
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| eyes very small |
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| The food of this species, in contradistinction to the other, consists entirely of grass of which it consumes enormous quantities. It drinks very regularly about midnight, and is never a great distance from water. |
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