 | Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| Beside old bull Diceros bicornis 'Matilda', 2 others died from natural causes. One in Dec 1951, an old cow with heifer calf known to be 17 months old, which latter for some time pugnaciously guarded the carcase. |
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| Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| The rhino lives alone or in pairs, sometimes a pair with a young. |
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| Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| The warning sound of the rhino is a soft 'quieken'; this I heard in a rhino pair when they started drinking, when they got my smell. When shot, the rhino reacts with a pig-like grunt, while when shot in the heart is emits several times a high pitched quieken. |
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| Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| The females are a lot more numerous than the males; they live in small groups whereas the males are very often isolated. |
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| Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
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| The young defend their mother courageously. Here is the proof: in the company of Baron Miville, of the Museum of Basel, who shot a female, we were attacked on two occasions by her calf while we stripped it. We found in her body a fetus, which already showed the nails and the beginning of horns. |
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| Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| The females appeared to us to be alone with their young or in small groups. |
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| Uganda Game Department 1940 Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department 1939. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 41: 17-25 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
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| At the end of the year four white rhino were seen together near Pakwach. |
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| Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 |
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White Rhino
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| Then the mother gently touched the little fellow with her front horn, and guided him slowly away; following him closely with her great square mouth on a level with his little back. |
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| Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 |
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White Rhino
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| The only sound I recorded (apart from alarm snorts) occurred when a bull and cow which we had been filming at 40 yards suddenly got our scent and rushed away at astonishing speed. One of them uttered a most peculiar noise, something like the deep, gasping final grunts of a stallion's whinny. |
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| Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 |
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White Rhino
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| A most memorable occasion was that when the two guides who were accompanying us, located and led us up to a slumbering family of five White Rhinos at midday. They lay flat upon their sides-like gigantic pigs-amongst the grass in the shade of a magnificent Umkudzlu tree. The family consisted of ... |
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