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Ritchie, A.T.A. 1932. Kenya. In: Maydon, H.C. 1932. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14). pp. 250-258.

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They have also suffered more in recent years from native poachers, for they are, of course, easily killed by the bush folk with their deadly poisoned arrows; and the high value and portability of Rhino horn, and the greed of Indian and Arab middlemen have supplied the incentive.

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Location Kenya Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1932

The distribution of Rhino in Kenya is somewhat similar to that of Elephant: practically identical in the eastern part of the Colony, in fact, but less extensive to the west.

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Location Kenya Subject Morphology Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Kenya. I know of a 42-inch, a 38-inch, and a 37-inch, all three obtained in those forests not so very long ago, while a 20-inch horn is no bad trophy from a low-country beast.

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