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File AvailableSclater, 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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File AvailableSclater, 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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it is generally solitary, being of a morose and unsociable disposition, though of course occasionally associating in small family parties.
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File AvailableSclater, 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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File AvailableSclater, 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
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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File AvailableSclater, 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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File AvailableSclater, 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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very keen
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File AvailableSclater, 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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Its food consists entirely of the leaves, twigs, and sometimes the roots of certain bushes and shrubs, never of grass.
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File AvailableSclater, 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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File AvailableCox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99
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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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File AvailableSclater, 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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