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| Title: |
Notes from Bahr el Ghazal province |
| Author(s): |
Owen, T.R.H. |
| Year published: |
1950 |
| Journal: |
Sudan Wildlife and Sport |
| Volume: |
1 (4) |
| Pages: |
24-25 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| I did not have opportunity to find the rhino at Khor Kalokosso, which they say is four hours from Gomuko Police post. The animal is reported to be inoffensive but also to browse on trees, so they remain an enigma. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution
Black Rhino
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We were at Aweng in early March.
Yet we walked straight on to a pair of those black rhino. They were less than 30 yards off but behind a screen of thorn, whither they retire the moment dawn comes, and I know them too well to go and shake hands with them. One was lying asleep (half an hour afte... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology
Black Rhino
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We were at Aweng in early March.
Yet we walked straight on to a pair of those black rhino. They were less than 30 yards off but behind a screen of thorn, whither they retire the moment dawn comes, and I know them too well to go and shake hands with them. One was lying asleep (half an hour afte... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Behaviour - Locomotion
African Rhino Species
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| Also have you ever known a white [rhino] gallop? I have only seen them go at a rapid trot. Yet the black rhino which once charged me certainly did so at the gallop, and this pair also, when eventually they spotted us and went deeper into the thorn bush, made off at a clumsy gallop, not a trot. |
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Notes from Bahr el Ghazal province
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