. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park . Zoos; Zoo animals. NEW YORK ZOULOUICAL PAIIK. 77. yOUNG AFRICAN EHINOCEROS. 1905, in the northern point of German East Africa, within about sixty miles of the head of Speke Gulf, which is the southeastern arm of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The elevation .is between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. It was slung under a pole, !and carried, six days' journey on men's shoulders, to the shore of the lake. The male specimen was captured very near the same spot .which furnished the female, but one year later, (July, 1906), and in the same manner w
. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park . Zoos; Zoo animals. NEW YORK ZOULOUICAL PAIIK. 77. yOUNG AFRICAN EHINOCEROS. 1905, in the northern point of German East Africa, within about sixty miles of the head of Speke Gulf, which is the southeastern arm of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The elevation .is between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. It was slung under a pole, !and carried, six days' journey on men's shoulders, to the shore of the lake. The male specimen was captured very near the same spot .which furnished the female, but one year later, (July, 1906), and in the same manner was carried to the lake front. From thence, both animals were transported by steamer to Port Florence, at the head of the Uganda Kailway, thence by rail 500 miles to ]\Iombasa. On April 1, 1907, the male Ehinoceros,—which has been named "Speke,"—was SOy^ inches in shoulder height, and the female, christened "Victoria," was 39 inches high. Both animals are now in excellent health, and the latter has grown very rapidly since her arrival here. The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros once was very abun- dant throughout the whole of the fertile plains region of east and south Africa, but the onslaughts of hunters have exterminated it from probably nine-tenths of the territory that it once occupied. To-day, the Englishmen of Africa are earnestly endeavoring to regulate and abate the slaughter. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937; New York Zoological Society. New York : New York Zoological Society
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