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The term 'White' first applied to Rhino by the Boers of South Africa, is misleading, for while the texture of the skin of Rhinoceros simus differs from that of the Black species, the colour of the hide is only a slightly lighter shade of slatey grey. The animal, however, is fond of bathing in mud or rolling in dust, from which it takes on any shade from a deep red to a light grey, that would appear whitish in a strong light.
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Black rhinoceros hunting
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