 | Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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;
Sparrman... |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| very keen |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1900 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull and horns of the square-mouthed rhinoceros and mounted heads of two antelopes obtained by Major AStH Gibbons on the Upper Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 December 4: 949 |
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| exceedingly poor |
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| eyes very small |
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| Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 |
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| Rhino are still fairly plentiful as you get well into the Haud - the waterless belt running right across the Protectorate from west to east. I even heard of one or two stray beasts near Birao, at the entrance to the Dolba-hanta country, but I think that is the extreme limit of their distribution ... |
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| Grogan, E.S.; Sharp, A.H. 1900 From Cape to Cairo: the first traverse of Africa from south to north. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvi, 1-377 |
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| Ravine Station, near lake Rudolph - Sees a rhino. |
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| Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 |
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| on Donaldson Smith's travels. On his 16 months' journey to Lake Rudolph, a few years ago, Dr. Donaldson-Smith found Rhino in many places a perfect pest. They would frequently rush out at members of his caravan, walking innocently along a jungle path, and would even charge through the line of ca... |
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