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Asia - East Asia - China |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
About 3000-4000 years ago wild elephants, rhino [etc.] proliferated in the lower reaches of the Huanghe River.
Rhinoceroses in particular were so numerous that (as historians tell us) hunting expeditions would round them up by the scores, or even a hundred or more at a time. Even in the Tang dynasty, rhinos still lived in considerable numbers in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei Provinces along the Changjiang River. But by the late 19th or early 20th century, the last of China's last rhinos died out in the south-western part of Yunnan Province.
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China's wildlife yesterday and today
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