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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Morphology - Horn |
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African Rhino Species |
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. First, on account of the cold, which they are not accustomed to, and the heavy rains, and, second, their shorter horns could not dig down far enough for the root food in the forest, and the foliage of the forest would not suit them any more than green grass suits the Gerenuk.
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