The rhinoceros are much reduced or have migrated to a large extent on the Serengetti Plains, especially near Maktau.
A large number of rhinoceros have been shot, especially by the enemy. Regular rhinoceros parties used to go out from Taveta and Salaita to kill rhinoceros with, it appears, the double object of providing meat for African troups and sport for the German officers.
WW II - Kenya. A large number of rhinoceros have been shot, especially by the enemy. Regular rhinoceros parties used to go out from Taveta and Salaita to kill rhinoceros with, it appears, the double object of providing meat for African troups and sport for the German officers.
A large number of rhinoceros have been shot, especially by the enemy. Regular rhinoceros parties used to go out from Taveta and Salaita to kill rhinoceros with, it appears, the double object of providing meat for African troups and sport for the German officers.
The large number of rhinoceros which used to live in the bush north and south of the Tsavo River have been much reduced, but probably numbers of these have moved down to the Athi River. As an instance, the writer counted 54 different frsh tracks between Tsavo station and the mouth of the Rombo in 1913, and on an early patrol in August 1914 during the war, saw 18 in three hours from Kivukoni while travelling due south, but at the present moment only an odd rhino is to be seen or heard. Many still exist, but they are much reduced in numbers.
Tsavo area. Thus the large numbers of rhinoceros which used to exist in the Upper Rombo, Ziwani Swamp, the bush fringing the Taveta Forest, Lake Jipe, on Latema, Reata, the Mokinni Hills and in the Kitovo Forest may be taken to be nearly extinct.
