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gerous to assail than the buffalo, because it often had to be 
attacked where there were no trees. 
The rhinoceros, unlike the elephant and buffalo, does not 
haunt the neighborhood of the negro villages, to make raids 
on the fields and gardens. It is a beast of the lonely wastes. 
Even in the dry desert it is at home if there is an occasional 
pool of water; and it is only at these desert drinking-pools, 
when driven thither by thirst, that the solitude-loving beasts 
are found in any number. A score or over may congregate 
at night round such a pool, to which each has trodden his 
path through a dozen miles of barren wilderness; and there 
they may fight for the water. If two or three rhinoceroses— 
a cow and calf, or a bull and a cow, perhaps with a calf—come 
to such a pool together they do not loiter in the neighbor¬ 
hood. But we have seen a single rhino remain by such a 
pool, motionless for an hour, until another appeared, when 
the two beasts approached each other, as if for company. It 
seemed as if they had each known that the other would 
come there about that time, and had reckoned on the meet¬ 
ing. We have seen the same thing with other game, where 
one individual waited with evident expectancy, as if at a 
rendezvous, until another of the same species appeared. 
But of course it is possible that in these cases the waiting 
animal’s keen senses made it aware that the other was some¬ 
where in the neighborhood long before the onlooker could 
discern the faintest hint of its presence. 
Key to the Races of bicornis 
Size larger, the skull exceeding 21 inches in length; concavity of upper 
profile deep, more than 2 inches bicornis 
Size smaller, the skull 20 inches or less in length; concavity of upper 
profile 2 inches or less in depth somaliensis 
