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Title: Een wankelende zwaargewicht
Author(s): Buissink, F.
Year published: 1998
Journal: Panda
Volume: 1998 Winter
Pages: 6-8
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
The white rhino uses the horn for grazing. He pushes the bushes aside to get to the grass.
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Location:
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
The white rhino uses the horn for grazing. He pushes the bushes aside to get to the grass.
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
the black rhino eats leaves. The upper lip is used as a sensitive finger to take leaves from branches. The animal sometimes overthrows trees to get to the leaves, and he uses his two horn for that purpose.
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
the black rhino eats leaves. The upper lip is used as a sensitive finger to take leaves from branches. The animal sometimes overthrows trees to get to the leaves, and he uses his two horn for that purpose.
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
Rhinos don't see well, which handicap makes them suspicious and sometimes aggressive. Rhinos have been seen attacking termite hills thinking that it is an elephant.
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Value
All Rhino Species
Mating can take well over an hour. That has given the rhino the name of being superpotent. For that reason, not only the horn but also the hide and the few hairs are given all kinds of magical powers.
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Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
Most horns only reach ? meter. But Gertie, a rhino formerly in Amboseli, had a horn of 1.38 m.
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