![]() In some instances one or two adult bulls shared the home range of a territorial bull but behaved in a subordinate manner. Territorial white rhino bulls occupied non-overlapping home ranges and left these territories only to proceed to and from water. Melton (1987) found that white rhinoceros showed a reduction in broad scale habitat selectivity during winter, changing from favoring the Acacia nigrescens open woodland in west Umfolozi in summer to using habitats at random during winter. Steep slopes within the habitat are avoided, although they will traverse them freely to feeding grounds or to water. The type of woodland is a secondary consideration, for its function is to provide shade from the sun during the hotter parts of the day. ![]() Reintroduced to areas where these conditions prevail, the species is flourishing. This woodland carries the palatable grasses which form their principal food. These requirements are met in the wooded grasslands, common in many parts of the Subregion, where they formerly occurred. comm.) - the availability of water for drinking and in which to wallow - adequate bush cover, and relatively flat terrain. Player & Feely (1960) listed four basic habitat requirements: - areas of short grass, for which they have a marked preference - stands of medium tall Panicum maximum which they find under trees (Emslie, pers. The largest single population of over 1,600 animals is in Hluhluwe/Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa a location that proved to be critical to their survival as a species. Altogether, there are 248 discrete populations, 10 of which are considered key to the species survival. 94% of the wild white rhinos live in South Africa, 4% live in Botswana (reintroduced), Namibia (reintroduced), Swaziland (reintroduced), Zambia (introduced), Zimbabwe (reintroduced) and the remaining 2% are located in Kenya (introduced), Tanzania (introduced) and the Ivory Coast (introduced). ![]() Historically they have had a much more restricted distribution that the black rhino. The approximately 11,600 southern white rhinos have a discontinuous range that has been reduced to national parks, private conservancies and other protected areas. The southern white rhino is the most numerous of all the world’s rhino taxa and its main stronghold is in South Africa. Quote by Martin Booth taken from the book Rhino Road I have to add, however, that the ground shook." Yet I have seen them in another light: not charging malevolently or stomping and pawing the ground with bull-like suppresses anger, but rather cavorting like lambs in a field, chasing each other like puppies. They have about themselves a distinct aura of calm and I have to admit to finding them quite pacifully beautiful. If a creature can be said to have discovered transcendental meditation, then it must be the white rhino. The creature looks peaceful, amiable and secure. "Whenever one sees a white rhino in the wild, one cannot escape the impression of size, of incredible benign strength and of a strange inner passiveness. The nasal cavity takes up more space in the skull than that of the brain. The rhinoceros has weak vision and is able to see a moving person from 90 to 150 ft (30 – 50m) but is unable to detect a person standing still at 100 feet.
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