Exterminated by the trek boers; formerly common.
The rhino is extinct for the past fifty years. Formerly it was common on the large Omuramba amnd on the Omambonde-Omuramba. In the 1880's the black rhino was still common near Karakowisa.
Gives for Ceratotherium simum records from Kaokoveld and Hukweveld, absent from Okavango and extinct in Omaheke and Kaukauveld.
Very rare on the Lujana River and in the Tschbombo Bush, as found by Mattenklodt. In 1884 Ceratotherium simum was still found common next to the black rhino on the lower Lujana, by Schulz & Hammar (The new Africa, 1897) and often shot. Mattenklodt was the first to find the animal in 1906 again in the Tschbombo Bush.
The rhino occurs in few specimens on the Okavango and the Kwando. The rhino area known to Wilhelm is located on the Lujana in an enormous thornbush district, in which there are open watering places, and which is called Tschbombo by the natives. There are about 30-40 rhinos here. According to traders and natives, the rhino would also occur in some places further west in the almost unknown part of the Hukwefeld. These are mostly black rhinos, but the white rhino also may still occur sporadically in the Tschbombo Bush.
In the Kaukaufeld the last specimens of the black rhino were shot by the Boer hunter Van Zyl and the Betschuana.
Kafuru
Only occurs on the eastern bank of the lower course.
Ongava
Steinhardt found a special kind of ringworm in the rhino of the Kaokoveld, which is being investigated by prof Michaelsen of the Zoological Museum in Hamburg.
Very rare in the eastern Omuhonga Mountains. It was seen once by D. Steinhardt near Ombombo-East in the east of the Omuhonga Mountains. The horns of this otherwise in the Kaokoveld exterminated white rhinoceros were found in the sand of the Omaruru, on the lower course of the Ugab and near Usakos.
Kafuru
Stumpfschnauz-Nashorn
Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes.
Naba
Ke
Opsiceros occidentalis
Tschukurru
Ke
The rhino destroys its dung by using the soles of its hind feet, with which its throws its dung backwards and makes it very small. On the dung piles it makes deep furrows. The dung is so much crumbed that it is almost invisible to the eye. Under special occasions, when it is in a hurry, the rhino will not destroy its dung.
The Kaoko rhino, observed for long periods by Steinhardt, all undertook more or less long wanderings, apparently according to the seasons. For instance, the rhinos which sometimes appear near Outjo come from the middle Ugab region, and the two animals living near Orusewa go to the neighbourhood of Outjo, while the male in Otjikuara often walks far in northeastern direction. The animals from the Large and Small Ombasu go to the Omuhonga Mountains. Nevertheless, for all these animals a certain home locality, probably their place of birth, could be established.
According to Steinhardt, the Kaoko rhino is less prone to attack than the East African rhino. It would usually be happy just to scare away its enemy. When it loses the smell, it continues to run. Strangely, the Kaoko rhino would attack with raised horns, after it has lowered its head twice before the attack deep to the ground.
Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino likes to live in mountainous areas, where it can wander with great speed.
Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes.
Kinds in Namibia. The rhino in the Kaokofeld of Namibia is Opsiceros occidentalis. However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m. J.H. Wilhelm formerly owned an anterior horn of a large male with a length of 25 cm and a diameter of 9 cm at the root. The posterior horn is very small. The hide is almost smooth and there is a prominent extension of the upper lip.
However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m.
J.H. Wilhelm formerly owned an anterior horn of a large male with a length of 25 cm and a diameter of 9 cm at the root.
However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m.
