“The young rhino which became the pet of the camp – it is shown here feeding out of a spoon.”
Black rhino calf was captured after a ‘German officer’ in the party killed the mother because the calf was not spotted in the high grass. The exact locality no stated, but in the Wakamba area of Kenya. The calf lived for several weeks.
Richard George Tyndall Bright (1872-1944), army officer in East Africa 1900-1902
From Bright, R.G.T. 1907. On the frontier in Central Africa. Wide World Magazine 18 (107), p. 535
