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Anthony Stidolph Reviews The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival by Clive and Anton Walker

The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for SurvivalVerdict: carrot

If any animal has come to symbolise the vulnerability, fluctuating fortunes, co-dependence and appalling decline of our wildlife, it must surely be the rhino.
Regarded as stupid, brutish and prehistoric by the white hunters of the 18th and 19th centuries, they were slaughtered in such vast numbers that by the early 1900s both the black and white rhino had been virtually exterminated from Cape Town to the Limpopo.

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