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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 |
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Pretoria, University of Pretoria |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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Anatomy - Muscles
White Rhino
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| a distinct hump on the back, just in front of the thighs. |
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Morphology - Skull
Black Rhino
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| While ancestral forms of rhinoceros possessed cutting incisor teeth and, in some, canines, these are absent in the black rhinoceros whose dental formula is:
I 0/0, C 0/0, P 3/3, m 3/3 = 24
The premolar teeth are molariform, all the cheekteeth being broad-faced and adapted to grinding up the food. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Translocation - Records
Black Rhino
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| Since 1962 a total of 131 Hluhluwe-Umfolozi and Mkuzi D.b. minor animals have been moved to re-establish seven new populations: Ndumu Game Reserve (which now has also become a donor reserve, with 19 animals transiocated from Ndumu to date); Kruger National Park (12 also brought in from Zimbabwe),... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros requires a habitat providing adequate shrubs and young trees up to about 4 m high, including well developed woodland or thickets in which to shelter during the heat of the day or in inclement weather. A water supply, not only for drinking but also in which to bathe and mud-w... |
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Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| In the first two years of their lives mortality is high. Goddard (1966) estimated that there was about a 16% loss, caused by predation by lions and spotted hyaenas or lowered resistance to disease caused by lack of food or water. |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| Communication within the species depends heavily on olfactory signals (urine and dung constituents), which individual rhinoceros detect through their sensitive sense of smell as they cross the paths of other members of their community, and encounter their dung middens. |
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Behaviour - Fighting
White Rhino
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| Territorial bulls trespassing into the territory of an adjacent bull normally take avoidance action and serious fights are usually averted. Encounters may take the form of short charges with much dust raising or, at closer quarters, horn clashing. Where a territorial bull is accompanied by a fe... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| Subordinate bulls are tolerated by a territorial bull, providing they remain submissive, and they spend most of their lives within his territory, although they make occasional explorations outside it. Several subordinate bulls may live in a territory of a single territorial bull. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| South Africa. In both Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Acacia spp or their close relatives comprised at least half of the 10 most preferred species, and as they grew in size they became less and less preferred (Emslie & Adcock, 1990b). The most preferred species were A. gerrardii, A. senegal and A. borlea... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| Black rhinoceros deposit their dung in latrines but will also defecate on paths or fortuitously anywhere in their home range. The latrines may be used by a number of individuals. Usually a small bush marks the centre of the latrine. After deposition the dung is vigorously scraped by the bulls ... |
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