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Title: Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest
Author(s): Fischer, A.
Year published: 1914
Publisher: Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-vi, 1-294
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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
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
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
The black rhinoceros battled for life.
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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
2.5 m height
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
Horns up to 120 cm long
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
4 m long
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