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The white rhinoceros on the upper Nile |
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Thomas, O. |
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1900 |
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Nature |
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62 (1616), October 18, 1900 |
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599 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| existence white rhino. That a rhino of this group [R. simus] existed in Central Africa had been suspected before. Dr. Gregory in `The Great Rift valley' mentions having seen in Leikipia, but failed to shoot, three specimens which he believed to be R. simus. Some years earlier Count Teleki shot... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Major A.St. Hill Gibbons shot on the upper Nile, near lado, a rhinoceros which he considered to be the white rhinoceros (R. simus). The skull can be identified as Rhinoceros simus. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Existence white rhino. That a rhino of this group [R. simus] existed in Central Africa had been suspected before. Dr. Gregory in `The Great Rift valley' mentions having seen in Leikipia, but failed to shoot, three specimens which he believed to be R. simus. Some years earlier Count Teleki shot... |
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Africa
Taxonomy - Evolution
White Rhino
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| The discovery of Ceratotherium simum in the Nile watershed brings it geographically nearer to its European and Siberian ally, the Pleistocene R. antiquitatis, both species being in turn, no doubt, offshoots of the Pliocene R. platyrhinus of the Siwaliks. |
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The white rhinoceros on the upper Nile
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