Diceros bicornis occidentalis
At the time [1913?], Christoph Schulz had just arrived with a large shipment from the former German East Africa. There were three black rhinos.
A new type of black rhino from the Kunene area in South West Africa was imported in 1922 by Hagenbeck. It is different by its remarkably small size, very short occiput and long legs, and I gave it the name Diceros bicornis occidentalis. This discovery made me to revise the genus Diceros, and it was ready in a manuscript of 90 pages, with 75 original photographs, but it was destroyed in the war and can never be reconstructed.
In 1913 there were with Hagenbeck a pair of young adult black rhinos imported by Christoph Schulz, called Bob and Marianne, which I observed for two years and which was the first adult pair of this species, that was exhibited alive.
A new type of black rhino from the Kunene area in South West Africa was imported in 1922 by Hagenbeck. It is different by its remarkably small size, very short occiput and long legs, and I gave it the name Diceros bicornis occidentalis.
