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Steven
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| Posted: Jul 8 2007, 02:35 PM |
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I was wandering how far north African (black and White) rhinos have been known to live. Has the Sahara always been their natural boundary or have there been reports of rhinos living in certain 'liveable pockets' in the sahara or even north of it: Egypt, Algeria, Libya etc..
Thanks in advance!
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| Posted: Jul 9 2007, 08:27 AM |
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Dear Steven
In the western part of Africa, there are no recent reports of rhinos in the Sahara or North of it. In the image gallery, search for "West Africa" which gives a map of the available records. However, there are rock drawings in countries north of its current range, and fossils have been found at least in Morocco and Algeria.
When you move further eastwards, rhinos were found further north in Nigeria, Cameroons, CAR, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea. For a good review, in the reference base look for the paper by Sidney 1965.
If anybody has details of old records for any parts of this range, it would be nice to post them here.
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Kees Rookmaaker
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| Posted: Jul 9 2007, 02:40 PM |
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Kees, thanks for the info!
I've had a look at the Sidney article and will study it more tonight. The speed at wich I got this answer and the fact that the article can be found online amazes me.
Great Website!!
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| Posted: Sep 29 2007, 12:57 PM |
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Hi,
I have just had a right cuneiform bone identified as rhino, cf. diceros bicornis from the Lower Tilemsi Valley in northeastern Mali. The bone dates to c. 4500 bp, so inidicates their distribution this far north-west around this time.
I also wanted to ask if anybody had any thoughts on the distribution of black and white rhinos during this time. Ioannis Giaourtsakis from Meunchen identified the bone for me, and suggested that its locality and date probably fit best with the black rhino. I saw that rookmaker (2004) suggests the rock drawings from northern Niger may be representative of the white rhino.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
Kate
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| Posted: Oct 1 2007, 06:05 PM |
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Sounds very interesting. I believe both could have occured as in most parts of Africa Black an White Rhinos share almost the same range.
Is this the first discovery of this kind?
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| Posted: Oct 1 2007, 07:23 PM |
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Thanks Steven,
It seems to be, at least according to the zoological literature that i have read, although that is not inclusive. If i find anything in the archaeological literature i will post it.
Kate
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African Rhinos: How far north?
