KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. N:0O 5. 12: 
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It is wonderful how often some people are »charged» by Rhinos, and in some 
cases it is no doubt a bona fide belief, and some people may perhaps have had worse 
luck with those creatures than others, or the Rhinos may be more fierce in some 
districts. 
But on the other hand it is very easy to produce an effect which looks as if 
a Rhinoceros charged. A man approaches such an animal from its lee side and then 
he sends a native around to the windside. As soon as the Rhino perceives the taint 
it starts. If it runs up wind it charges the native, if in any other direction it charges 
somebody else! 
Two Rhinoceroses are allowed on a license, and the charging ones are not 
counted. With the great number of sportsmen now visiting British East Africa two 
Rhinoceroses on each license is too much, and a not too small a fee ought to be paid 
for the killing of every charging Rhinoceros as well. I suspect that the number 
of such >»bad brutes> would not be so great then as it is reported to be now. It 
may appear hard that one should be obliged to pay for the killing of a charging 
dangerous beast, but those people who visit East Africa solely for the purpose of 
shooting and bringing home »trophies> can no doubt afford to pay something for 
saving their lifes, if need be. 
In settled districts and such with a lively traffic the Rhinoceroses may be a 
troublesome nuisance, especially if they are numerous. But there are vast stretches 
of land in British East Africa, as well dry steppe as arid thornbush country, which 
never can produce any kind of crops, and where at most nomadic tribes may be able 
to feed their flocks. 'Phere the Rhinoceroses do no harm, and there, at least, they 
may be allowed to remain in reasonable num ber. 
Although my experience about the Rhinoceros of East Africa, naturally enough, 
is not very great I think it may be opportune to mention as examples the behaviour 
of some of the Rhinos observed. 
The 4th of Febr. we were going with our safari from Luazomela to Itiolu river 
across the open steppe. The wind blew transversely across our path from right to 
left. A female Rhinoceros with her calf seen on our left at a long distance, more 
than a kilometre, started to run like mad with raised tail as soon as the taint from 
the safari reached her. The calf followed close after her. A little later the same 
day a Rhinoceros was observed asleep under an acacia about, or rather less than 100 
metres from our path. The safari was ordered to pass silently, but the Rhinoceros 
heard something and rose. As its visual power was not strong enough to give any 
information about what was going on, and it could not smell anything against the 
wind it laid down again quietly since it had tried to stare at us for a while. Simi- 
lar incidents of both kinds were repeated several times during the expedition. In 
the thornbush north of Guasy Nyiri one day the grown up calf fled first and the 
mother followed, since they had stared at us a while. 
Another day in the same country I passed a Rhinoceros with a nearly fullgrown 
calf at a distance of about thirty metres under the wind, and they did not perceive 
anything. At another opportunity I had shot a big Baboon on the slopes of a 
