Rhino are still fairly plentiful as you get well into the Haud - the waterless belt running right across the Protectorate from west to east.
I even heard of one or two stray beasts near Birao, at the entrance to the Dolba-hanta country, but I think that is the extreme limit of their distribution towards the N. and E.
Rhino are still fairly plentiful as you get well into the Haud - the waterless belt running right across the Protectorate from west to east. I even heard of one or two stray beasts near Birao, at the entrance to the Dolba-hanta country, but I think that is the extreme limit of their distribution towards the N. and E. I have never heard of one in the Reserve, and they do not seem to cross the Haud northwards but become more plentiful as you get further south.
Somalia. In the case of the elephant his ivory is his ruin, but the Rhino fortunately for him is not so valuably furnished, and thus enjoys comparative immunity from persecution. The non-professional hunter should ordinarily be content with two or three good specimens, and the Somali does not pay him much attention. True, he likes the skin for making whips and shields, but be does not appreciate him as an article of food, and I do not think the destruction under the former head amounts to anything very considerable, so that in Somaliland at all events the Rhino should survive long after the elephant has gone.
Somaliland. It was evidently the upper half of the Rhino's back, yellow with the sandy soil in which he had been rolling.
Somaliland. It was evidently the upper half of the Rhino's back, yellow with the sandy soil in which he had been rolling.
