 | Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 |
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White Rhino
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| The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently. |
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| Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 |
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Black Rhino
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| Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes. |
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| Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 |
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Black Rhino
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| Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes. |
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| Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 |
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Black Rhino
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| Kenya. Acacia shrubs forms its diet. |
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| Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 |
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Black Rhino
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| Kenya. Acacia shrubs forms its diet. |
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| Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 |
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| The food of this species consists entirely of grass. |
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| Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 |
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| The food of this species consists entirely of grass. |
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| Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 |
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Black Rhino
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| It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food. |
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| Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 |
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Black Rhino
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| It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food. |
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| Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| B?ttikofer tells the following: 'Soon after arrival on the station Poenan Caves, on the western slopes of the Liang Koeboeng, we found in the wet places of the forest numerous tracks of the rhinoceros. At the same time we found many numerous young treetrunks, about the thickness of an arm, which... |
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