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Dollman, J.G., 1937. Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74

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Location: Africa
Subject: Distribution - Reasons for decline
Species: White Rhino


Original text on this topic:
The White Rhinoceros of Africa is in rather a different position from the Asiatic species, as it is not only strictly protected by rules and regulations but these are enforced. In the days of the early settlers in South Africa this rhinoceros was so plentiful that it was all in a day's work for a man to shoot several of these magnificent beasts. No animal of such slow breeding powers, as this species possesses, could possibly survive for any length of time such persecution, and we find that in the early days of the twentieth century the White Rhinoceros of South Africa was so reduced in numbers as to be on the verge of extinction.

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