. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . e those of^he black. 372 HORNS OF RHINOCEROS OSWELLH. eros {rhinoceros hicornis)\ the other, the Keitloa {rhinocerosKeitloa), or the two-horned black rhinoceros, as it is alsotermed by naturalists. The latter differs from the Borele inbeing somewhat larger, with a longer neck; in having thehorns of nearly equal length, with a lesser number of wrinklesabout the head; and it is of a more wild and morose disposi-tion. The upper lip of both (more especially in the Keitloa)is pointed,
. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . e those of^he black. 372 HORNS OF RHINOCEROS OSWELLH. eros {rhinoceros hicornis)\ the other, the Keitloa {rhinocerosKeitloa), or the two-horned black rhinoceros, as it is alsotermed by naturalists. The latter differs from the Borele inbeing somewhat larger, with a longer neck; in having thehorns of nearly equal length, with a lesser number of wrinklesabout the head; and it is of a more wild and morose disposi-tion. The upper lip of both (more especially in the Keitloa)is pointed, overlaps the lower, and is capable of is pliable, and the animal can move it from side to side,twist it round a stick, collect its food, or seize with it anything it would carry to its mouth. Both species are ex-tremely fierce, and, excepting the buffalo, are perhaps themost dangerous of all the beasts in Southern Africa. Of the white species, we have the common white rhinoc-eros {rhinoceros simus, Burch.), called Monoohoo by the Be-chuanas, and the Kobaaba {rhinocei^os Osweliii, Grray), or long-. nORXS OP RHINOCKROS OSWELLII. DESCRIPTION OF RHINOCEROS. 373 horned white rhinoceros.* It is with regard to their hornsthat the two species chiefly differ from each other; for whilethe anterior horn of the Monoohoo has an average length oftwo or three feet, curving backward, that of the Kobaabanot unfrequently exceeds four feet, and is slightly pointed for-ward, inclining from the snout at about an angle of forty-fivedegrees. This rhinoceros is also the rarer of the two, and isonly found in the more interior parts of South Africa. The chief distinguishing characteristics of the white rhi-noceros are its superior size, the extraordinary prolongationof its head, which is not far from one third of the wholelength of the animals body, its square nose (hence alsodesignated i square-nosed rhinoceros), and the greater lengthof the anterior horns. The black and the white rhinocer
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