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| Title: |
Black rhinoceros in Rhodesia |
| Author(s): |
Kerr, M.A.; Fothergill, R. |
| Year published: |
1971 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
| Volume: |
11 (2/3) |
| Pages: |
129-134, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Besides the areas discussed so far, small relic populations are known to occur in the Mount Darwin and Chipinga districts. Fothergill's survey of the Mount Darwin district indicated a population of 31 animals, in three groups of 6, 10 and 15 animals, in small localities on tribal trust land. (Tw... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Roth estimated a population of between 1000 and 1400 rhinoceros with the reservation that this was only a very rough estimate. Our total is roughly 740 rhinoceros, of which about 440 occur on National Land; this is also a very rough estimate and more of a second opinion. But the welfare and fut... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Roth's comprehensive table of known rhinoceros kills in Rhodesia since 1919 gave a total of 556, which was probably, as he suggested, very conservative, and information gathered since 1967 indicates that rhinoceros poaching is still heavy in some areas. Since 1964, in the Binga district alone, 6... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| numbers and distribution of black rhino in Rhodesia |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| A small pocket of about eight animals was known to occur in the Chipinga district. When Roth assessed this population there were 8 - 12 animals, but a recent capture operation in the area recovered only one animal, and that only after a very intensive search. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| Rhinoceros have the maximum legal protection having recently been placed on the royal game schedule, but this may be insufficient without intensive research and applied management. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis. Wankie National Park (c. 5,000 square miles): Between 1962 and 1963, 13 rhinoceros were moved to the park during the Kariba rescue operations and released there; in 1965 a further 40 animals were captured and translocated with the aid of drugs from the Mwenda Native Purchase Ar... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Zambezi Valley - Kariba Gorge to Mozambique Border: an area of about 4,000 square miles bounded in the east by the Mozambique border and Hunyani river, in the south by the Tsetse Control game fence, and to the west and north by the Zambezi river, and Lake Kariba.
Roth considered conditions in th... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| Roth and Child (1968) investigated the density and structure of the rhinoceros population marooned on the islands in Lake Kariba during the rescue operations between 1959 and 1963. The overall mean density in the studied area between the Sanyati and Mwenda rivers was one rhinoceros per 4.5 - 5.3... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Black Rhino
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| Fothergill, who was in charge of rescue operations, found that rhinoceros were very poor swimmers and once out of their depth would return to land. |
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Black rhinoceros in Rhodesia
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