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| Title: |
Les rhinoceros congolais |
| Author(s): |
Schouteden, H. |
| Year published: |
1927 |
| Journal: |
Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) |
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4 (1) |
| Pages: |
19-30, figs. 1-3 |
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Museums - Europe
Museums
White Rhino
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| Specimen unspecified. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium. |
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World
Museums
White Rhino
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| Specimen unspecified. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium. |
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World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In Congo, it is forbidden to hunt white rhino. But many believe that the hunt is still open, or they invoke the clause of self-defence. The custom offices at Aba regularly let through horns which are said to have been killed in self defence. |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| In general, the white rhino is more sociable than the black. One finds small groups which together go to take bath, eat, or lie in a shady place during the hot part of the day. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Photo of a white rhino killed north of Fradje by the late G. Lebrun. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Chad
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The species is also found, as indicated by Lang, at the Shari-Niger, south of Lake Chad. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The white rhino is only found in the north-east of Uel?. It is true, Lang says that according to a native chief, the black rhino would have existed in N.E. Uele and adjacent regions, together with the white rhino, until relatively recently; it would have been completely wiped out during the terr... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The black rhino is only found in Katanga. Photo of a black rhino killed in Karanga by Mr. Sharp. Katanga is in S.E. of Congo. It is still relatively numerous on the high plateaus of the Marungus. It is almost extinct near Albertville, where it was rather numerous on the high land near the Luku... |
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World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have. |
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Les rhinoceros congolais
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