Reference Base Notes for: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 ...   Bere, R.M. 1975 Mammals of East and Central Africa. Hong Kong, Longman, pp. i-iii, 1-76 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Uganda. The Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis - shoulder-height 150 cm; 1000- 1500 kg) prefers dry bush and thorn-scrub but occurs in most savanna habitats and in certain forests.   details Cott, H.B. 1975 Looking at animals: a zoologist in Africa. London, Collins, pp. 1-221 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In 1971 there were 110, including 18 introduced in Kabalega NP. The present 1974 situation in Uganda is unknown.   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino 18 were translocated to Kabalega Np. Action proposed: Translocation of more animals from Ajai reserve to Kabalega NP.   details Uganda Game Department 1974 Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1973. Entebbe, Uganda Government Printer, pp. i-v, 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Eltringham, S.K. 1973 The large mammal community of the Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda). Annales de l'Universite d'Abidjan (E) 6 (2): 189-219, figs. 1-7, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino Black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis) not represented although it occurs elsewhere in western Uganda. The region which is now occupied by the park was once densely settled by pastoralists, which have been reduced by small pox at the end of nineteenth century, rinderpest in the 1890's and sleeping...   details Anonymous 1973 White rhinos at Kabalega. Oryx 12 (1): 30 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Curry Lindahl, K. 1972 War and the white rhinos. Oryx 11 (4): 263-267, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In Uganda numbers dropped from about 350 in 1955 to 80 in 1962 and about 20-25 in 1969 (Cave 1963, Simon 1970); the 12 introduced into the Murchison Falls National Park in 1960, despite two being poached, increased to 18 in 1971.   details Henderson, D. 1972 Obongi, the white rhino who fell in love with mankind. Animals 14 (7): 302-303, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Obongi, tame white rhino. Obongi's first contacts with man were stormy, her hitherto young and peaceful life being destroyed by a succession of nerve-shattering events. One minute she was resting in the shade of a thorn bush, the next she was being chased by the catching team in battered, strip...   details Curry Lindahl, K. 1972 War and the white rhinos. Oryx 11 (4): 263-267, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. In Uganda numbers dropped from about 350 in 1955 to 80 in 1962 and about 20-25 in 1969 (Cave 1963, Simon 1970); the 12 introduced into the Murchison Falls National Park in 1960, despite two being poached, increased to 18 in 1971.   details Henderson, D. 1972 Obongi, the white rhino who fell in love with mankind. Animals 14 (7): 302-303, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino Tame white rhino in Uganda, and succesful return to nature. Obongi's first contacts with man were stormy, her hitherto young and peaceful life being destroyed by a succession of nerve-shattering events. One minute she was resting in the shade of a thorn bush, the next she was being chased by th...   details Uganda Game Department 1972 Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1971. Entebbe, Uganda Government Printer, pp. 1-3, i-ii, 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Casperd, N.M. 1971 A diary version of a rhino rescue. Africana 4 (5): 15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Reports on a young white rhino found with a snare around neck, which was removed.   details Jenkins, P. 1971 Wanted: a herd of white rhino. Africana 4 (7): 27, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Verschuren, J. 1970 Disaster for Congo's White rhinos. Oryx 10 (4): 208 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 20-25   details Verschuren, J. 1970 Disaster for Congo's White rhinos. Oryx 10 (4): 208 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino From the West Nile population, 11 white rhino were taken, in two operations, to Mrchison Falls NP in 1961 and 1964. The FPS has suggested that a third Operation Rhino should be mounted to bring more of these animals to Murchison.   details Verschuren, J. 1970 Disaster for Congo's White rhinos. Oryx 10 (4): 208 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino From the West Nile population, 11 white rhino were taken, in two operations, to Murchison Falls NP in 1961 and 1964. The FPS has suggested that a third Operation Rhino should be mounted to bring more of these animals to Murchison.   details Henderson, D.S. 1970 White rhino: The road back (in Uganda). National Parks Magazine 44 (Mar) #270: 19-20, 2 images Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Conservation Nile Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1968 White rhinos in Uganda. Oryx 9 (5): 326 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Walker, A. 1968 The Lower Miocene fossil site of Bukwa, Sebei. Uganda Journal, The Uganda Society, Kampala; 32 (2): 149-156, 4 figs Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Fossil Details: Chilotherium sp. nov., Dicerorhinus sp.   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino The few dozen rhino in the area not protected by the Reserve were under such severe poaching pressure that an attempt was made to move some of the animals east of the Nile to the safety of Murchison Falls National Park. This was accomplished in two operations, the first in March, 1961, from whic...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In an attempt to protect the population remaining in Uganda the Uganda GameDepartment, with the financial aid of the East African Wildlife Society and the World Wildlife Fund, established the Ajai's White Rhino Reserve at Inde, West Nile District. The Reserve contains about 60 rhino in 61 square...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino This differing tolerance toward man extends to intraspecific aggregations. The black rhino frequently occurs singly; the square lipped rhino only rarely. Of 16 groups of the latter seen near Inde, single animals were seen only twice - an adult male and a pregnant female with a snare on its leg....   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Food White Rhino Much time would be necessary to assess accurately the food preferences of the rhino throughout a year. It can now be mentioned that the square-lipped rhino is a grazer (in contrast to the browsing black rhino), and that the following species of grasses are eaten in the Reserve: Chloris gayana Ku...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Food White Rhino Much time would be necessary to assess accurately the food preferences of the rhino throughout a year. It can now be mentioned that the square-lipped rhino is a grazer (in contrast to the browsing black rhino), and that the following species of grasses are eaten in the Reserve: Chloris gayana Ku...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino The presence of long grass in the Reserve often made it difficult to locate the rhino. However the chattering cries of the oxpeckers (Buphagus eryhrorhynchus (Stanley) ) who attend these animals frequently led to their detection.   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino While the black rhino is often aggressive toward man, the square-lipped species is very rarely so and then only when a calf is present.   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Fighting White Rhino While the square-lipped rhino tends to live in larger herds than the black, fighting, especially between males, does occasionally occur with mortality sometimes resulting (Player and Feely, 1960). Such an outcome may well depend on the high population of rhino in Natal; fatalities from combat ha...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino The movements of the rhino within the Reserve are clearly correlated with the occurrence of rain. Water is probably necessary for regular watering and mud wallows may also be an essential part of the habitat. During the dry season the rhino descend into the Ala and Obei swamps bordering on the ...   details Hellmann, R.A. 1967 Wildlife conservation in Uganda in relation to economic development. Bioscience 17 (9): 608-612, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino Ceratotherium simum, 80, cf Cave 1963.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino Ceratotherium simum, 300-350   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 80   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The protection of the white rhino in Uganda is quite inadequate. There is a lot of poaching despite the existence of game laws. Player & Feely (1960) are incorrect in saying that the game laws are well kept despite the fact that there is no special reserve for the rhinos. The reserves of Mount...   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino Neither rhinoceroses nor giraffes are found in the Queen Elizabeth Park, where the country is not very suitable for them.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The white rhino is one of the rarest animals in the world; so it was decided to try and move a few to the Murchison Falls Park before they were all exterminated. Catching and transport were not the only problems. Would the rhinos eat the grass which was growing in the Park? How would the white...   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino The black rhino lives to the north of the Nile in the Murchison Park, but is not found to the south of the river. The white rhino lives only on the west bank of the Nile north of Lake Albert. The reason for this is not clear. There is vegetation suitable for both kinds of rhino on both sides o...   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. About 1910. The white rhino occurred in NW Uganda west of the Nile (Albert Nile) between Dufile in the north and Pakwach in the south in the districts of West-Madi, Aringa, Koboko, Terego, Madi, Okoro and Jonam. With the exception of the Aringa and Koboko districts, the ran...   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino range of white rhino in 1925, 1958 and 1962/64.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from the Nile south of Nimule, in 1910, cf. Roosevelt 1910: 350.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Orras Swamp in 1908, cf. Berger 1922: 278, with fig.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Sururus Village, Lado Enclave in 1909, cf. Roosevelt 1910: 370.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino But there are about two hundred black rhinoceroses, and the same number of giraffes living north of the Nile in the Murchison Falls Park, in which there are sizable acacia woods.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino It is found at this time (around 1958) that the Mt Kei and Mt Otze reserves are ecologically unsuitable for the white rhino as they consist of dense forest. There are very few rhino there. It is estimated that there are no more than 35 specimens. The numbers in the Mt Kei area decreases during...   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Mt Kei, cf. Heck 1957: 151, Grzimek 1958: 117.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Mount Otze, cf. Heck 1957: 151, Grzimek 1958: 117.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum . Numbers have been estimated as follows, but the enormous differences shows that some numbers must be used with great caution. 1927, Behr & Meissner 1959, ca. 30 1928, Cave 1963, 130 1939, Cave 1963, 220, none south of Pakwach 1940, Behr & Meissner 1959, 220 1948, Cave...   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The reserves of Mount Kei and Mount Otze are ecologically unsuitable. Although they are often mentioned as rhino protection areas, the map published in 1961 by the `Directorate of Overseas Surveys' gives them as `Game Controlled Areas'.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Rhino Camp, by Churchill in 1908, cf. Heller 1913.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Since 1949 the numbers increased. Ionides (1953) says that the numbers in Mount Kei and Mount Otze reserves increased. In 1958, Heppes estimated a substantial increase since 1949 to 190 animals.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The only white rhinos in Uganda live in a small area in the north-west of the country where, a few years ago, there were three or four hundred. But these peaceful, inoffensive creatures are an easy prey for poachers. They kill them for the horn, which people in India and China believe produces ...   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino White Rhino recorded from Dufile, in 1925, cf Shortrdige 1934: 426   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The Inde White Rhinoceros Sanctuary, mentioned by Hayes (1964), has an uncertain official status.   details Schomber, H.W. 1966 Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In March 1961, 10 white rhino were captured in the Madi District and released in the Murchison Falls NP east of the Nile, in a region where they never occurred in historic times. Here the animals are well guarded and enjoy suitable protection. Of the 10 animals released, there were 8 still aliv...   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The black rhino is one of the most unpredictable animals in Africa. It is a mixture of truculence and timidity, and can be extremely stupid. The black rhino is always liable to charge, or at least rush towards, any unfamiliar object, whatever it may be. It charges with its head held up, loweri...   details Casperd, N.M. 1966 Out of the snare. Africana 2 (10): 43 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Conservation White Rhino No details available yet   details Savidge, J.M. 1965 Catching and carting white rhinos in Uganda. Oryx 8 (2): 89-93, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 71   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino Present in 1964: 50 Ceratotherium simum   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 300   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 500   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino Present in 1964: 15 Ceratotherium simum   details Anonymous 1964 Guards stop the poachers. Oryx 7 (4): 152 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino <100 Ceratotherium simum.   details Anonymous 1964 Guards stop the poachers. Oryx 7 (4): 152 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Thanks to their presence in the Ajai's Sanctuary area, where there are between 50-60 white rhino, was completely effective in stopping the poaching there. After the patrols started there was only one serious poaching incident, when 4 men were arrested and later sentenced for tracking a rhino, an...   details Savidge, J.M. 1964 A new national park in Uganda. Oryx 7 (4): 151 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino There are very few Diceros bicornis, threatened by poaching.   details Savidge, J.M. 1964 A new national park in Uganda. Oryx 7 (4): 151 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino Declared March 1962, not yet open to public.   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Present in 1964: 0 Ceratotherium simum   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Present in 1964: possibly 6 Ceratotherium simum.   details Savidge, J.M. 1964 A new national park in Uganda. Oryx 7 (4): 151 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino covers 486 sq.miles, is in NW Karamoja on the Sudan border.   details Anonymous 1964 Guards stop the poachers. Oryx 7 (4): 152 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In the Lomunga GR the position is less satisfactory. Two rhino were killed there last summer, one by a gang of 40-50 poachers, and only 20 remain, scattered over 600 sq.miles which it is impossible to patrol effectively with the men available. It is planned to move as many as possible to the sa...   details Hayes, C. 1964 The fight to save Uganda's white rhino. Africana 2 (1): 6-11, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In 1961 10 white rhino were translocated to Murchison NP. In 1964, an operation described here moved 8 rhino to Murchison NP. Out of 8 rhino secured, only 5 remained alive. Two cows and a calf died.   details Risley, E. 1964 The national parks of Uganda. Africana 1 (10): 12-18, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1963 White rhino conservation. Africana 1 (6): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino There are now 77 white rhino in Trans Nile district, down from 150 some years ago as a result of poaching.   details Anonymous 1963 White rhino conservation. Africana 1 (6): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 77   details Schomber, H.W. 1963 Wild life in the Sudan, part III White and black rhinoceros and giant eland. African Wildlife 17 (1): 29-35, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status White Rhino 300, (Brooks,1960)   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino When Messrs Randall and O'Connell were catching rhino in this area in March, 1961, for transportation into the Murchison National Park, they encountered more than forty skeletons of animals which had been killed within a twelve month or so. In the same year Mr. Peter Hay (1962) came across, in t...   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino white rhino numbers in West Nile district, 1962   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In Madi County not more than fifty White Rhinoceros still survive. They are centred roughly upon Inde and the swampy land along the west bank of the Nile. They are, perhaps, under closer supervision than is possible in the more northerly districts, but they offer the same attraction to the poac...   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In Uganda the White Rhinoceros is now restricted to the Madi, West Madi, and Aringa counties of the West Nile District, where, despite protection and the ceaseless vigilance of the Game Department Officers, its numbers have decreased alarmingly in the last half-dozen years, so that today probably...   details Shirley, R.M. 1963 Meeting with a rhino. African Wildlife 17 (3): 255-256, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino Visits Queen Elizabeth NP and find group of 5 rhino. They come very close to the car.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino This article summarizes some of the results of a visit paid to the West Nile District of Uganda in July-August, 1962, with the object of studying the White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in its native habitat. Its conclusions are based both upon official departmental reports and upon informati...   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The shyness of the surviving animals, their persistent numerical reduction, and the number of skeletons to be encountered in the bush, are plain indications that the present protection afforded the White Rhinoceros is ineffective, despite unremitting watch and labour on the part of devoted Game D...   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Shows 8 white rhino on his map in Murchison Falls NP. When Messrs Randall and O'Connell were catching rhino in this area in March, 1961, for transportation into the Murchison National Park, they encountered more than forty skeletons of animals which had been killed within a twelve month or so. ...   details Bere, R.M. 1963 Living off your friends. Animals 1 (13): 15-17 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino Of all birds, those which associate most with the larger mammals are the red-billed and yellow-billed oxpeckers. It climbs all over its animal hosts and pecks at the ticks or other external parasites on which it feeds. And as it operates freely on the more sensitive parts such as eyes, ears, an...   details Cave, A.J.E. 1963 The white rhinoceros in Uganda. Oryx 7 (1): 26-29, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Population White Rhino Apart from the customary daily and seasonal movements of the species (governed mainly by considerations of feeding and watering) the present animals would appear to move about their district to a greater degree than formerly and to have become increasingly wary and difficult to approach. In the ...   details Anonymous 1962 Square-lipped rhino transported in Uganda. African Wildlife 16 (1): 77 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Translocation carried out in March 1961. As a result of extensive poaching in the West Nile and Madi districts, it was decided to transport 20 to Murchison Falls NP. Ten were moved before the rainy season put an end to the operations and of these 7 are still believed to be doing well, although ...   details Bere, R.M. 1962 The wild mammals of Uganda and neighbouring regions of East Africa. London, Longmans Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Cott, H.B. 1962 Uganda in black and white. London, MacMillan & Co, pp. i-xxvi, 1-232 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1962 The white rhinoceros. Nature 196 (24 Nov 1962): 724 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Conservation White Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1961 Combien reste-t-il de rhinoceros noirs en Afrique?. Terre et la Vie 1961: 159 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Status Black Rhino 525-525, trend stationary   details Blower, J. 1961 Operation rhino. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 2 (2): 5-10, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Williams, E.H. 1961 Ajai's island. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 2 (2): 33-37, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1961 Rhino routed. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 2 (4): 38 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Uganda Game Department; Kinloch, B.G. 1961 Uganda Protectorate. Report of the Game and Fisheries Department (Game Section), for the period 1st July, 1958 to 30th June, 1960. Entebbe, Uganda Government Printer, pp. i-iii, 1-52 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Buechner, H.K.; Harthoorn, A.M.; Lock, J.A. 1960 The immobilization of African wild animals in the field. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 135: 261-264, pls. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino It is hoped ultimately to remove some of these from the West Nile district of Uganda, where they are at present heavily poached, to a National Park.   details Bell, W.D.M. 1960 Bell of Africa, with an appendix on rifles and shooting. London, Neville Spearman and The Holland Press, pp. i-xvi, 1-236 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino In the Lado Enclave, early one morning I met with a white rhino carrying a magnificent horn, and shot him. Later sees 2 white rhino.   details Anonymous 1960 Elephant and rhino. African Wildlife 14 (2): 162 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino An interesting observation of a rhino meeting an elephant is worth putting on record. They approached to within 15 yards before becoming aware of each other's presence. The elephant then extended its ears and walked straight towards the rhino, which halted and lifted its head. The elephant the...   details Uganda Government 1959 Game (preservation and control) act 1959 (ch 198). Entebbe, Uganda Government Printer, pp. 1-24 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Conservation African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Bere, R.M. 1958 The status of ungulate mammals in the Uganda National Parks. Mammalia 22: 418-426 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. Both the African Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis bicornis) and the northern race of the White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simium cottoni) are present in Uganda. The Black Rhinoceros is comparatively common in the northern section of the Murchison Falls Park and is well distrib...   details Bere, R.M. 1958 The status of ungulate mammals in the Uganda National Parks. Mammalia 22: 418-426 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. Both the African Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis bicornis) and the northern race of the White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simium cottoni) are present in Uganda, the latter in an extremely limited habitat in the West NiIe District.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 ...