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Reference Base  The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
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| Title: |
The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
| Author(s): |
Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
| Publisher: |
Pretoria, University of Pretoria |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| They have a simple stomach, and digestion of herbage takes place mainly in the voluminous sacculated caecum where most fermentation takes place (Clemens & Maloiy, 1982). They browse, manoeuvering food into their mouths with the aid of the prehensile upper lip, biting shoots off with the premolar... |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| One of the most obvious characters that differentiates them is the square lips of C. simum (Fig. 295.1) and the hooked, prehensile upper lip of D. bicornis, which are adaptations to and in their feeding habits, and they may also be referred to in this way. |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| Some characteristic features which serve to distinguish them from their near relative, the white rhinoceros, Ceratotheriurn simum, include their possession of a prehensile upper lip (Fig. 296.1), which is used in grasping the twigs of the woody plants on which they feed, the shorter head, longer ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Population
White Rhino
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| Cows on the other hand have home ranges that overlap with those of other cows and may overlap the territories of as many as seven territorial bulls (Owen-Smith, 1973). In areas with good grazing and water the home range of individual cows may be as small as 6-8 km? . With deteriorating food sup... |
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Morphology - Skull
White Rhino
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| The dental formula of the white rhinoceros, C. simum, is: I 0/0, C 0/0, P 3/3, M 3/3 = 24 |
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Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| Black rhinoceros are not strictly territorial in the sense of defending delimited areas against others of their species, but each adult does tend to remain within a specific home range which may overlap with the home ranges of other members of the population. The size of a bull rhinoceros' home ... |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| The skin is thick, with a sparse scattering of hairs. They have eyelashes and hairy fringes to the ears and the end of the tail. |
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Anatomy - Glands
Black Rhino
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| Scattered throughout the skin are sweat glands which exude droplets of sweat when the individual is under stress. |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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| Predation on them, except by man, is minimal, although rarely they may be killed by lions. |
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Ecology - Habitat
White Rhino
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| They tend to use established routes to water or to preferred grazing areas. |
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