Horns. Locality: Lake Chad. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, Uelle District. Collected by: Mr. Fraipont. In Musee du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, from the region near Rafa?, at the northern border of the western part of the Uelle district, near to Tchad. Collected by: Mr. De la K?thulle. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, Uelle District. Collected by: Mr. Fraipont. In Musee du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, from the region near Rafa?, at the northern border of the western part of the Uelle district, near to Tchad. Collected by: Mr. De la K?thulle. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Head with 2 horns. Locality: British East Africa. Collected by: Mr. Brichart. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Head with 2 horns. Locality: British East Africa. Collected by: Mr. Brichart. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, Uelle District. Collected by: Mr. Fraipont. In Musee du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Anterior horn. Locality: Congo, from the region near Rafa?, at the northern border of the western part of the Uelle district, near to Tchad. Collected by: Mr. De la K?thulle. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Head with 2 horns. Locality: British East Africa. Collected by: Mr. Brichart. In Mus?e du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Belgium.
Horns. Locality: Lake Chad. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mus. Tervuren has a horn donated by Mr. De la K?thulle, brought from the region of Rafai, near Tchad.
Since the start of the 19th century, the white rhino has been so intensively hunted by white and indigenous hunters that at the moment it is practically gone from the region.
Ceratotherium simum. Almost disappeared from southern Africa. A few individuals still exist, especially in Zululand.
In 1900 the first skull with exactly known origin was reported in Europe (from where it went to USA) by Major Gibbons: that skull belonged to an animal killed in the neighbourhood of Lado. In 1902, captain Hawker brought to England a horn of a white rhinoceros which he had received from Belgian officers in Lado, after which Sclater (1903) reported that `the Belgians do not distinguish the common Rhinoceros bicornis and seem to believe that all the rhinos belong to a single species.' In 1903, Scherren noticed that the species was common in the northern parts of Congo (obviously meaning the country of Lado) and adjacent parts of Sudan, and that several english sportsmen had horns from this region. In 1908, Major Powell Cotton, gave to the British Museum the skull of a white rhinoceros which he killed in Lado. Basing himself on this skull, the curator in London, Mr. Lydekker established a special subspecies with the name cottoni. Since that time, several sportsmen have brought back to Europe specimens of Rhinoceros simus Cottoni, mainly from Lado, where the animal is still quite abundant. Unfortunately, the frequent hunts - or to speak with Berger, the game massacres (wildsclachtereien) - in this region have already taken many specimens and it may not take long before this northern race will be as rare as the typical white rhino in South Africa.
Recently, Berger (1910) mentioned that a white rhinoceros was shot in the northern part of the country of the Somalis.
The British Museum has two horns of the white rhinoceros which were brought from the area around Lake Chad at the end of the 19 th century.
I can state that Rhinoceros simus also exists in the Uelle, that is the north of Belgian Congo.
Mus. Tervuren has an anterior horn, 67.5 cm, part of the ethnographical collections of Mr. Fraipont, recently acquired by the museum, from the district of Uelle, Congo.
[Julien Fraipont, 1857-1911, Belgian paleontologist]
Horns of different lengths. The museum has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi.
In Zululand in 1903, Mr. Saunders saw two specimens killed by local people near their village. A photo taken of one of these animals is the only photo known of the species, together with that made in 1870 by Mr. H?ritte en published in 1908 by Lydekker.
In Zululand in 1903, Mr. Saunders saw two specimens killed by local people near their village. A photo taken of one of these animals is the only photo known of the species, together with that made in 1870 by Mr. H?ritte en published in 1908 by Lydekker.
Rhinoceros camus
These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros. A. Morphological characteristics 1. The muzzle is truncated, squarely cut in the white rhino, and the upper lip does not extend in the middle. In the black rhino, the muzzle is more advanced to the front and the upper lip in the middle has a prehensile end. 2. The nostril of the white rhino is formed like a [photocopy absent]
Several indication in travel journals have given the possibility of the existence of the white rhinoceros in the White Nile region. But only in 1900 the first skull with exactly known origin was reported in Europe (from where it went to USA) by Major Gibbons: that skull belonged to an animal killed in the neighbourhood of Lado. In 1902, captain Hawker brought to England a horn of a white rhinoceros which he had received from Belgian officers in Lado, after which Sclater (1903) reported that 'the Belgians do not distinguish the common Rhinoceros bicornis and seem to believe that all the rhinos belong to a single species.' In fact, it is rather extraordinary that the existence of a species som obviously different from the common black rhinoceros could have remained unnoticed in this region, especially as it was relatively often visited. In the same year 1903, Scherren noticed that the species was common in the northern parts of Congo (obviously meaning the country of Lado) and adjacent parts of Sudan, and that several english sportsmen had horns from this region. In 1908, Major Powell Cotton, gave to the British Museum the skull of a white rhinoceros which he killed in Lado. Basing himself on this skull, the curator in London, Mr. Lydekker established a special subspecies with the name cottoni. Since that time, several sportsmen have brought back to Europe specimens of Rhinoceros simus Cottoni, mainly from Lado, where the animal is still quite abundant. Unfortunately, the frequent hunts - or to speak with Berger, the game massacres (wildschlachtereien) - in this region have already taken many specimens and it may not take long before this northern race will be as rare as the typical white rhino in South Africa.
The white rhinoceros does not differ from the black in colour, as would appear from the name: the shades of the two species are just about identical, and we don't know why the old Boers baptized the Diceros simus as Wit Rhenoster, white rhinoceros.
The white rhinoceros does not differ from the black in colour, as would appear from the name: the shades of the two species are just about identical, and we don't know why the old Boers baptized the Diceros simus as Wit Rhenoster, white rhinoceros.
Horns of different lengths. The museum has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi.
These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros. A. Morphological characteristics 1. The muzzle is truncated, squarely cut in the white rhino, and the upper lip does not extend in the middle. In the black rhino, the muzzle is more advanced to the front and the upper lip in the middle has a prehensile end. 2. The nostril of the white rhino is formed like a [photocopy absent]
Horns in Mus. Tervuren from Congo: anterior horn 67.5 cm anterior horn 62 cm
The museum in Tervuren has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi.
