 | 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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Black Rhino
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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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Black Rhino
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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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Black Rhino
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| upper lip with a very distinct median prolongation forming a kind of rudimentary proboscis |
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Black Rhino
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| Limbs stout and of moderate length with three well developed toes, each provided with a broad rounded hoof. Limbs solid and massive, each with three broad nail-like hoofs |
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Black Rhino
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| Anterior horn rising from the nasal bones, rounded at the base, where it is often rough and frayed out, so to speak, above becoming laterally flattened and greatly curved backwards, usually exceeding the posterior horn in length; this latter is situated on the frontal bones just above the eye and... |
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Black Rhino
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| Occasionally, a curious triple-horned variety has been found, one such is described by Flower (op.c.) from near Mount Kilima-njaro in East Africa, in which the third horn forms an unsymmetrical triangular elevation about 5 ? inches high in the median line of the lower part of the forehead. |
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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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Black Rhino
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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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Black Rhino
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| eyes very small |
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| general colour slaty grey, not noticeably darker than the other species. |
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