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| Larger than the other species, in fact the largest of all land-animals after the elephant. |
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| Female rather smaller than the male |
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| The square-mouthed rhinoceros is found in open country, and is particularly fond of the wide grassy valleys so frequently met with on the high veld of Matabele and Mashonaland |
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| The pace of the rhinoceros is fairly good considering its bulk; its swift trot will easily surpass man's power but it is, of course, no match for a horse |
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| They feed at night, or in the cooler part of the morning and evening, spending the day in sleep as often as not in the open veld under the shade of some solitary tree, but sometimes concealed in thick bush; when thus found asleep they are awakened with great, difficulty and can be approached near... |
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| It has a curious habit of always depositing its excrement at the same place where it accumulates in enormous masses; when these have reached an inconvenient height it sometimes demolishes the mass with its horn, moreover, owing to the nature of the food, the animal can always be identified by th... |
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| The square-mouthed rhinoceros is always spoken of as a most mild and inoffensive creature, very sluggish and unsuspicious; its sight is very bad, though scent and hearing seem to be acute; this no doubt is so, and accounts to a great extent for its almost total extermination, but at the same time... |
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| Boule, M. 1900 Etude paleontologique et archeologique sur la station paleolithique du Lac Karar (Algerie). Anthropologie 11: 1-21, figs. 1-24 |
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| The teeth from Lake Karar can be attributed to Rh. camus, which still lives in the centre of Africa. |
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| In the middle and later portions of the Tertiary epochs rhinoceroses were spread over the rest of the Old World, even within the arctic and subarctic regions, where roamed the woolly rhinoceros (R. antiquitatis), considered to be closely allied to the white rhinoceros; hitherto no fossil species ... |
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| head very long and massive |
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