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Reference Base  Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete de... |
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Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden |
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Heuglin, T. von |
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1877 |
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Braunschweig, Georg Westermann |
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vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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| Endit |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
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Morphology
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| Ethiopia. The colour changes from the reddish shede of meat to dirty dark browngrey, but always with a streak towards the reddish. As the animals like to wallow in mud, the hide often taken the colour of the mud which clings to its skin. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| In the dry season it retreats into the mountains, in the region of the bamboos and even higher. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| The rhinoceros lives in pairs or in families. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Morphology - Horn
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| From the rhinoceros which occurs in Takah, Homran, Qalabat and on the Anseba I only obtained young specimens, which are similar to the one described by Blanford, and I often saw apparently adult animals, in which the front horn was only 6 inches longer than the second one. The anterior horn has ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
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Black Rhino
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| Ethiopia. The colour changes from the reddish shede of meat to dirty dark browngrey, but always with a streak towards the reddish. As the animals like to wallow in mud, the hide often taken the colour of the mud which clings to its skin. |
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