map with rock art sites of black and white rhino drawings
Zimbabwe - Diceros bicornis. There are 26 sites containing one or more paintings of this animal. These are spread evenly, but sparsely, throughout all the painted areas of Mashonaland from Umtali to Salisbury, in Wedza, Marandellas, Concession and Areturus Districts. There are two occurrences between Fort Victoria and the Sabi River and only two are recorded from the Matopo Hills.
This record is after the last one published, which was shot by F. C. Selous in the Angwa River Valley during 1911.
Zimbabwe - Ceratotherium simum. Five of the sites known contain paintings which can be definitely identified as representations of the White Rhinoceros. These are widely spread, appearing in the Chindamora Reserve, the Matopo Hills, at Melesanga in the Triangle area, and one in the Lower Sabi Valley.
- rockart - Ceratotherium simum. How these animals were distributed several hundred years ago, is not known. The late Mr. Macdougal, founder of the Triangle Sugar Estates, told me that when he entered Southern Rhodesia, circa 1920, he saw three White Rhinoceros near the junction of the Sabi and Lundi Rivers. He also told me that two of these had been shot soon afterwards, but he had lost track of the third one. This record is after the last one published, which was shot by F. C. Selous in the Angwa River Valley during 1911.
