 | 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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Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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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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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. An imperfect skull is preserved in the South African Museum, which was dug out of the black peaty soil at a depth of eight feet, about twelve miles from the Vaal River in the Kimberley district, in 1893 ; this is the southernmost locality yet recorded. |
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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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
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| Rhino seen at Wadelai.- Wadelai, on west bank of Nile, 2.44 N, 31.24 E. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| colour not perceptibly lighter than the other species, being a slaty grey black. |
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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. it was first discovered by Burchell in Bechuanaland, but even in Smith's time (1835), it was driven northwards from the Kuruman neighbourhood, and during the seventies and early eighties, it was practically exterminated in Ngamiland, Matabeleland and Mashonaland, where it ha... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. during the seventies and early eighties, it was practically exterminated in Ngamiland, Matabeleland and Mashonaland, where it had formerly been exceedingly common. |
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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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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. Coryndon states that fifteen were shot in Matabeleland in 1886, and he himself shot an old female in 1892, and two males in 1893, the two latter being now in the British and Tring Museums |
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Anatomy - Reproductive organs
White Rhino
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| Two mammae. |
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| they are very fond of wallowing in pools and plastering themselves all over with clay and mud |
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| Thomas, O. 1900 The white rhinoceros on the upper Nile. Nature 62 (1616), October 18, 1900: 599 |
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White Rhino
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| Major A.St. Hill Gibbons shot on the upper Nile, near lado, a rhinoceros which he considered to be the white rhinoceros (R. simus). The skull can be identified as Rhinoceros simus. |
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