Mammals of Ethiopia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Chapters: Abyssinian Grass Rat, African buffalo, African bush elephant, African wild ass, Ammodile, Asian house shrew, Awash Multimammate Mouse, Bailey's shrew, Bale Mountains vervet, Bale shrew, Banded mongoose, Bat-eared fox, Big-headed mole rat, Black-clawed Brush-furred Rat, Blick's Grass Rat, Bohor reedbuck, Bushbuck, Common duiker, Common eland, Common tsessebe, Dibatag, Dorcas gazelle, East African mole rat, Ethiopian Amphibious Rat, Ethiopian Big-eared Bat, Ethiopian Forest Brush-furred Rat, Ethiopian highland hare, Ethiopian Mylomys, Ethiopian Narrow-headed Rat, Ethiopian striped mouse, Ethiopian Thicket Rat, Ethiopian White-footed Mouse, Ethiopian wolf, Ethiopian Woolly Bat, Gelada, Gerenuk, Giant forest hog, Glass's shrew, Grant's gazelle, Gray-tailed Narrow-headed Rat, Greater kudu, Grévy's zebra, Grivet, Ground pangolin, Guramba shrew, Hamadryas baboon, Harenna shrew, Harrington's Rat, Hartebeest, Kéwel, Klipspringer, Kob, Lesser kudu, List of mammals of Ethiopia, Lovat's Climbing Mouse, Lucina's shrew, MacMillan's shrew, Mantled guereza, Mountain Nyala, Mountain reedbuck, Nikolaus's mouse, Nile lechwe, Nubian ibex, Olive baboon, Oribi, Petra Fruit Bat, Red-fronted gazelle, Reticulated Giraffe, Roan antelope, Rupp's mouse, Salt's dik-dik, Scott's mouse-eared bat, Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat, Swayne's Hartebeest, Thalia's Shrew, Typical Vlei Rat, Walia ibex, Warthog, Waterbuck, White rhinoceros, Yalden's Rat. Excerpt: The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 17,460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 (IUCN 2008), and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining, with seven confirmed individuals left (including those in captivity). White rhino in Murchison Falls National Park, UgandaA popular theory of the origins of the name "white rhinoceros" is a mistranslation from Dutch to English. The English word "white" is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in English. The word "wide" refers to the width of the rhinoceros' mouth. So early English-speaking settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the "wijd" for "white" and the rhino with the wide mouth ended up being called the white rhino and the other one, with the narrow pointed mouth, was called the black rhinoceros. Ironically, Dutch (and Afrikaans) later used a calque of the English word, and now also call it a white rhino. This suggests the origin of the word was before codification by Dutch writers. A review of Dutch and Afrikaans literature about the rhinoceros has failed to produce any evidence that the word wijd was ever used to describe the rhino outside of oral use. Other popular theories suggest the name comes from its wide appearance throughout Africa, its color due to wallowing in calcareous soil or bird droppings or because of the lighter colour of its horn. An alternative name for the white rhinoceros, more accurate but rarely used, is the square-lipped rhinoceros. The white rhinoceros' generic name, Ceratotherium, given by the zoologist John Edward Gray in 1868, is derived from the Greek terms keras (¿e¿a¿) "horn" and therion (¿¿¿¿¿¿) "beast". Simum, is derived from