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File AvailableFunaioli, U.; Simonetta, A.M. 1961 Statut actuel des ongules en Somalie. Mammalia 25: 97-111, fig. 1
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Black Rhino
The reason for the decline is the systematic hunting by the local people for the animal's horn, which is taken via Aden to the orient.
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File AvailableFunaioli, U.; Simonetta, A.M. 1961 Statut actuel des ongules en Somalie. Mammalia 25: 97-111, fig. 1
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Black Rhino
Our enquiries in the central and northern parts of the country, in the districts of Bulo Burti and El Bur, have been entirely negative in places where the rhinoceros was found with some regularity some 30 years ago. In that region which was officially designated to protect the rhinoceros and the...
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File AvailableFunaioli, U.; Simonetta, A.M. 1961 Statut actuel des ongules en Somalie. Mammalia 25: 97-111, fig. 1
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Black Rhino
Still present in the total reserve of Bubashi, but it is a small number. In Bubashi, the local rangers believe that they are between 10 and 15 animals. One animal, possibly from Kenya, was illegally shot near Afmedu in 1955 and a skull was found south of Afmedu in 1953.
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File AvailableFunaioli, U. 1959 I mammiferi della Somalia. Rivista Agricultura subtropicale e tropicale 53: 1-44
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Black Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableHunt, J.A. 1951 A general survey of the Somaliland Protectorate 1944-1950. London and Dunstable, Waterlow and Sons, pp. i-vii, 1-203
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
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Black Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableWard, J.N.; Sorrell, D.S. 1950 The fauna of Jubaland. Oryx 1: 26-34, fig. 1
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Black Rhino
Lower Juba area, which was the administrative district of Kismayu under recent British occupation. It extends from Ghesgud to Dujuma on the left bank of the Juma River [southern Somalia, against Kenya border] Diceros bicornis, many unconfirmed reports, but there is no doubt that there are rhino...
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File AvailableTurner, D.P. 1937 Some notes on the game of the British Somaliland border. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 31: 56-60
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Black Rhino
Rhino tracks were seen occasionally near Border Post 84. - Tallybur, On Somali-Ethiopian border, border post 84
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File AvailableSwayne, H.G.C. 1932 Northern Somaliland: pp. 234-239

In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445
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Black Rhino
Almost extinct.
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File AvailableSwayne, H.G.C. 1932 Northern Somaliland: pp. 234-239

In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445
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Black Rhino
Wiyil
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File AvailableSwayne, H.G.C. 1932 Northern Somaliland: pp. 234-239

In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
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Black Rhino
Probably still found in Ogaden.
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