Daly, M., 1937. Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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The long thin-horned rhino are always found in thick bush or forest country where the rainfall is plentiful, the soil deep and moist at fairly high altitudes, such as west and north Kenya and the Aberdare Mountains of Kenya Colony and such country.
In the hard low country of scrub-thorn and gravel ground the long-horned rhino is never found, unless by chance it has been hunted down there, when, left to itself, it will quickly return to its forest home. Indeed, a long-horned rhino could not live in the low hard country, if only on account of its long horn, as the long thin horn could never dig up the necessary root food in the hard ground. It would be like a man trying to dig with his bare hands in a hard ant-heap in the desert for apples.
The low, thorn-scrub bush-country rhinos have very thick, short strong horns well adapted to the country in which they are found, and they in turn could not thrive in the high forest country.
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