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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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In the Sinamatelia region of Hwange National Park all 59 black rhinos were dehorned in mid-1992. In October 1994 only 33 had survived. Six carcasses, the stubby remains of their horns hacked off, were found and those unaccounted for are reckoned to have gone the same way. But the state of the survivors gave the veterinarians heart. In 1992, there were seven rhino cows with calves less than 6 months old, last year five of the same cow-calf pairs were found, with calves now 750kg sub-adults ready to leave their mothers for solitary adult life. Despite the two missing pairs apparently shot, the survival rate gave hope.
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Survey: rhinos on private land
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