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Posted by: LHofstra Apr 6 2016, 02:49 PM

Hello, I am looking for information about how to visually age a rhino calve for either black or white rhino. Can anyone advice me some literature or information on this subject? I have unfortunately not been able to find much about the subject besides aging through dentition. Help much appreciated!

Posted by: Keryn Apr 15 2016, 08:59 AM

Hi L Hofstra The African Rhino Specialist Group have Standardized field rhino-ageing guides. These are used in most countries with African rhino You can download the picture guides for white and black rhino at my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t6swxv7fk2fmav3/AAAmv7GN32CnkPY_VO9rZxeJa?dl=0 ALSO we have a summary of black rhino field aging by tooth wear patterns : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yj4t4f5sx35zt88/AABJBYFrytjefNLXlGrpBRVFa?dl=0

Posted by: LHofstra Apr 16 2016, 07:47 AM

This is exactly what I have been looking for thank you so much! These drawings are perfect, the only photos I could find were terrible quality photos in 2 research papers! You have made my day!