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Title: Black and white rhinos in the Umfolosi Game Reserve
Author(s): Dales, D.H.
Year published: 1966
Journal: Redwing, Journal of the S. Andrew's College Natural History Society
Volume: 1966
Pages: 32
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Europe
Names in vernacular
White Rhino
Round-lip
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World
Morphology
White Rhino
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
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Morphology
White Rhino
As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip...
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Translocation - Methods
All Rhino Species
To spread the rhino population to the other reserves to prevent overcrowding, the rangers shoot darts that inject a sleeping drug into them. They are then moved while unconscious to the bomas, stout wooden enclosures, where they are kept for three months until. they are docile enough to be trans...
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World
Morphology
White Rhino
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
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World
Morphology
Black Rhino
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
The white rhino bull is very territorial in his habitat. He claims an area of bush for himself and then makes heaps of dung, known as middens, to mark the boundary.
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Anatomy - Muscles
White Rhino
Another important distinguishing mark is the prominent hump on the back of the white rhino which the black rhino does not have.
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Morphology
White Rhino
As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip...
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Reproduction
White Rhino
Gestation period 25 months
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