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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



Cow square-nosed rhino of the Lado, shot by Mr. Roosevelt 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



was in both respects overlapping, the bigger prehensile- 

 lipped rhinos equalling or surpassing the smaller individuals 

 of the other kind. The huge, square-muzzled head, and 



the hump, gave 

 the Lado rhino 

 an utterly dif- 

 ferent look, how- 

 ever, and its 

 habits are also 

 in some impor- 

 tant respects dif- 

 ferent. Our gun- 

 bearers were all 

 East Africans, 

 who had never 

 before been in 

 the Lado. They 

 had been very 

 sceptical when 

 told that the 

 rhinos were dif- 

 ferent from 

 those they knew, 

 remarking that 

 "all rhinos were 

 the same"; and 

 the first sight of 

 the spoor merely 

 confirmed them 

 in their belief; 

 but they at once 

 recognized the 

 dung as being 

 different; and when the first animal was down they exam- 

 ined it eagerly and proclaimed it as a rhinoceros with a 

 hump, like their own native cattle, and with the mouth of 

 a hippopotamus. 





Rhino of the usual type, with prehensile lip, shot on the 



Sotik by Mr. Roosevelt 



The differences of the two types are shown in the above photographs 

 From a photograph by Kermil Roosevelt 



