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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. There are still said to be a few surviving in Zululand, where they are very strictly preserved, and where, perhaps, they may have a chance of increasing if proper precautions are observed but even of these, six are said to have been killed in 1894, one of which is now exhibi... |
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White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. in 1895, Mr. Arthur Eyre shot a fine male north of the Ayrshire mine near Mazoe, in northeast Mashonaland; this specimen was purchased by Mr. Rhodes and presented by him to the South African Museum, where the mounted skin and skeleton are now exhibited. |
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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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Morphology
White Rhino
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| nostril an elongated slit parallel to the mouth; |
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White Rhino
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| as a rule they are solitary, or found associating in small parties of two or three individuals, though there may have been a good many in the neighbourhood; Harris, for instance, speaks of seeing eighty in one day. |
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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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| Existence white rhino. That a rhino of this group [R. simus] existed in Central Africa had been suspected before. Dr. Gregory in `The Great Rift valley' mentions having seen in Leikipia, but failed to shoot, three specimens which he believed to be R. simus. Some years earlier Count Teleki shot... |
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| The food of this species, in contradistinction to the other, consists entirely of grass of which it consumes enormous quantities. It drinks very regularly about midnight, and is never a great distance from water. |
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| hairless, except for a fringe along the edge of the ear and for the tail bristles. |
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| head very long and massive |
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Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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| Witte Rhenoster |
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