 Reference Base  Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Equateur Africain Franc... |
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Blancou, L., 1954. Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Equateur Africain Francais - un rhinoceros de foret?. Mammalia 18: 358-363
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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Louis Lavauden made a single journey from Kenya to Cameroon in 1931 and then published his reports in 1932, reprinted in Brazzaville in 1933, and also in Terre et la Vie 1932, with a rhino distribution map. On these maps, Lavauden shows the presence of rhinoceros in the area formed by the borders of Cameroon and AEF [CAR] north of the equator, roughly between 1 and 3 degrees north, 15 to 17 degrees east. Lavauden never entered that area. In his text he does not discuss this area of distribution further. It seems therefore that he did not attach much importance to this abnormal geographic position, although he says elsewhere that the rhinoceros is never found in the forest.
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