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Title: |
Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest |
Author(s): |
Fischer, A. |
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1914 |
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Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt |
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pp. i-vi, 1-294 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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In Koes, on the southern edge of the Kalahari, I was shown bones and horns, found in quicksand, a certain evidence that the animal once lived here. About 1840, the first men had come to live here, Orlam from the Karas mountains and Berseba. They built huts on the dunes, and compelled the game t... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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The white rhinoceros could resist the onslought by firearms even less than the elephant. Its size, 2.5 m height, 4 m length, was no protection and the double horns on its nose was no longer a weapon. It was exterminated without battle. That was a short history.
The white rhinoceros was alread... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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In the north east, along the Okavango, the rhinoceros still lives, in a small number. A few place names are all that we have to remember them. Bteween Otjimbingue and Karibib is Okangava, the place of the black rhinoceros. About this we read in Johanna Gertze, the first Herero author, in 1858 ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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The black rhinoceros battled for life. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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The black rhinoceros was regarded as the most dangerous game, had first place among the five deadly enemies of men, and used to attack the locals without reason. But when the white men came, the rhinoceros charged. |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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2.5 m height |
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World
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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Horns up to 120 cm long |
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World
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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4 m long |
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