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Reference Base  The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
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| Title: |
The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
| Author(s): |
Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
| Publisher: |
Pretoria, University of Pretoria |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| 1930, bicornis, reduced by 1930 to only about 85 to 135 in northern Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The last black rhinoceros in the Transvaal was seen in the Kruger National Park in 1936. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Since 1962 a total of 131 Hluhluwe-Umfolozi and Mkuzi D.b. minor animals have been moved to re-establish seven new populations: Ndumu Game Reserve (which now has also become a donor reserve, with 19 animals translocated from Ndumu to date); Kruger National Park - 81 specimens - (12 also brought i... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. At first confined to the Umfolozi-Corridor-Hluhluwe Game Reserve Complex, subsequently they have been reintroduced to the Mkuzi, Itala and Ndumu Game Reserves in Natal and many other reserves including the Kruger National Park and Pilanesberg National Park. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Van Riebeeck's Diary of 1652 recorded rhinoceros as occurring on the slopes of Table Mountain and as being common on the Cape Flats. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| Both species of rhinoceros formerly occurred widely in the southern parts of Africa. The white rhinoceros, however, never occurred very far south of the Orange River and generally was absent from the Orange Free State and parts of the southern Transvaal, although in the east it occurred througho... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. White rhinoceros have been moved to the following countries (figures correct to 31/12/1983-Meiklejohn, pers. comm., 1990): Subregion -Cape 80, Natal 487, Orange Free State 23, Transvaal 931, Bophuthatswana 330, Ciskei 6, Transkei 15, Venda 6. They have not done so well in ... |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| The folding of the skin is confined to an area above the knees, on the front limbs, across the nape behind the ears and on the flanks. |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| In overall colour they are dark grey. Like the elephant and the white rhinoceros, they tend to take on the colour of the ground on which they live, through their habit of wallowing in mud and dusting themselves after bathing. |
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Anatomy - Glands
White Rhino
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| Scattered over the surface of the skin are sweat glands which, when the individual is under stress, exude droplets of sweat. |
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