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| Title: |
Notes on Somaliland, part I |
| Author(s): |
Cox, P.Z. |
| Year published: |
1900 |
| Journal: |
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |
| Volume: |
13 (1) |
| Pages: |
86-99 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Rhino are still fairly plentiful as you get well into the Haud - the waterless belt running right across the Protectorate from west to east. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| I even heard of one or two stray beasts near Birao, at the entrance to the Dolba-hanta country, but I think that is the extreme limit of their distribution towards the N. and E. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
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| The events of the two days in question were not entirely furnished by the Rhino, but I may as well give the whole of them : -
On the 8th March, I had tracked up a pair of lions, and eventually bagged one of them.
March 9. Donaldson-Smith and I were up with the lark. D.S. was obliged to return ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Rhino are still fairly plentiful as you get well into the Haud - the waterless belt running right across the Protectorate from west to east. I even heard of one or two stray beasts near Birao, at the entrance to the Dolba-hanta country, but I think that is the extreme limit of their distribution ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| on Donaldson Smith's travels. On his 16 months' journey to Lake Rudolph, a few years ago, Dr. Donaldson-Smith found Rhino in many places a perfect pest. They would frequently rush out at members of his caravan, walking innocently along a jungle path, and would even charge through the line of ca... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Hunting
African Rhino Species
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| As an. item in the list of big game, he sometimes affords sufficient excitement, as he habitually charges when wounded, and not infrequently when unwounded and entirely without provocation; but on the whole he would appear to be much less formidable than the elephant, and more easily brought to ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Value
African Rhino Species
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| Somalia. In the case of the elephant his ivory is his ruin, but the Rhino fortunately for him is not so valuably furnished, and thus enjoys comparative immunity from persecution. The non-professional hunter should ordinarily be content with two or three good specimens, and the Somali does not pa... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Somaliland. It was evidently the upper half of the Rhino's back, yellow with the sandy soil in which he had been rolling. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Somaliland. It was evidently the upper half of the Rhino's back, yellow with the sandy soil in which he had been rolling. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| On his 16 months' journey to Lake Rudolph, a few years ago, Dr. Donaldson-Smith found Rhino in many places a perfect pest. They would frequently rush out at members of his caravan, walking innocently along a jungle path, and would even charge through the line of camels ; a camel on one occasion,... |
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Notes on Somaliland, part I
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