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Title: |
Check list and atlas of the mammals of Mozambique |
Author(s): |
Smithers, R.H.N.; Tello, J.L.P.L. |
Year published: |
1976 |
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Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia |
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Pages: |
pp. i-viii, 1-184 |
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Location:
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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In Gorongoza there is a slight increase in numbers (communicated by Tinley). |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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Vaughan-Kirby (1920) reports the finding of 2 skulls on the south bank of the Zambezi River above the Shire confluence. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Maps
White Rhino
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map of Ceratotherium simum. |
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Location:
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Maps
Black Rhino
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map of Diceros bicornis. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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Savannas, forest fringes and the scrub ecotone of savanna and grassland. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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Within recent times an individual was seen in Coutada 16 near the Limpopo River (2231D3; communication by S.P. Mamede), the origin of which is in doubt. It seems unlikely that it came from Kruger NP and it may have been one from the group released in Gon |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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Recorded from the Central and Southern provinces of Malawi (Sweeney 1959) where today they are sparse and rarely seen. They may be commoner in the western Tete district than present records indicate, as they occur in the eastern parts of the Zambezi valley in Rhodesia. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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The last authentic record was an individual shot near Tega Kraal, Marcorsa (Macosso, 1733D4) in 1935, a photograph of which appeared in Sydney 1965. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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Vagrants from reintroductions to Kruger NP make their way eastward sporadically over the border into Mozambique.
An individual was shot by a poacher between Moamba and Magude in 1966. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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Widely but sparesely distributed from the Gorongoza NP throughout the northern areas, formerly with a much wider range southwards. |
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