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Reference Base  The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
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| Title: |
The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
| Author(s): |
Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
| Publisher: |
Pretoria, University of Pretoria |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The skin on the body appears naked, but at close quarters is seen to have a sparse coating of bristly hairs. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| They still exist in Kaokoland and Damaraland in northwestern Namibia, and in the eastern parts of the Etosha National Park. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| They have a barrel shaped body and short, thick-set limbs. The limbs have three digits, each armed with broad, stout nails, which mark clearly in the spoor. The front feet are slightly larger than the hind. However, there is a less marked difference between them than in the black rhinoceros. ... |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| The horns, which are composed of a mass of tubular filaments similar in substance to hair, are outgrowths of the skin and are not attached to the bone of the skull. The front is almost invariably longer than the hind, 1,58 m being the record length of a front horn from the Subregion (Best & Best... |
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Taxonomy - Evolution
All Rhino Species
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| Four genera of fossil rhinoceros are known from the early Miocene Epoch of some 23 million to 19 million years ago, whose ancestors, at present unknown, must have lived during the Oligocene Epoch which preceded it. These four genera are Brachypotherium, Aceratherium, Dicerorhinus and Chilotheriu... |
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White Rhino
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| At that time no European was aware that two species occurred in Africa and this species did not have a distinguishing name. Names differentiating the two species must have come into use towards the end of the 18th century, when the hunters and pioneers entered the area north of the Orange River ... |
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White Rhino
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| The colloquial name white rhinoceros is entrenched and originates from the name given to them by the early Dutch hunters, witte renoster, or in Afrikaans witrenoster, which was used to distinguish them from the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis. Barrow (1801/4), Harris (1852) and Selous (1908) ... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Characteristic features include the long head with long, continually growing horns. |
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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| White rhinoceros are grazers with a preference for feeding on short grass, which they are capable of cropping to within 25-60 mm of the ground (Owen-Smith, 1988). Lacking incisor teeth, the movable and extremely sensitive upper lip is extended over a grass clump, pressing the grass against the h... |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| They have a simple stomach, and digestion of herbage takes place mainly in the voluminous sacculated caecum where most fermentation takes place (Clemens & Maloiy, 1982). They browse, manoeuvering food into their mouths with the aid of the prehensile upper lip, biting shoots off with the premolar... |
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