| 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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| and their excrement which they scatter about with their horns and never allow to accumulate, is dark coloured and full of twigs and chips. |
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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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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
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| it is generally solitary, being of a morose and unsociable disposition, though of course occasionally associating in small family parties. |
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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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| they drink in the evening, and at dawn, often wallowing at the latter time. |
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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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| South Africa. The common rhinoceros frequents bush covered country more than the open grass-lands, and is often found in rocky stony districts. |
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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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| The only sounds to which it gives vent appear to be grunts, and snorts of rage. |
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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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Black Rhino
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| very keen |
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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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| Its food consists entirely of the leaves, twigs, and sometimes the roots of certain bushes and shrubs, never of grass. |
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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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| general colour slaty grey, not noticeably darker than the other species. |
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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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
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| Somaliland. It was evidently the upper half of the Rhino's back, yellow with the sandy soil in which he had been rolling. |
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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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| upper lip with a very distinct median prolongation forming a kind of rudimentary proboscis |
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