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Haagner, A., 1920. South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248
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Black Rhino |
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A great deal has been written on the pugnacious nature of the Black Rhino, most hunters saying it will charge without provo- cation. Its small eyes are bound to give the creature bad eyesight, but its hearing is well developed, and I expect they vary individually as much as any other animal. Dugmore, in his beautiful book on 'Camera Adventures in East Africa,' states that in one district of East Africa the Rhinos were quiet and docile or timid animals, in another quite the reverse, charging for no apparent reason.
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