 Reference Base  Behaviour of large mammals during the formation of Lake K... |
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Child, G., 1968. Behaviour of large mammals during the formation of Lake Kariba. Salisbury and Bulawayo, Trustees of the National Museums of Rhodesia, pp. i-vi, 1-123
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Translocation - Methods |
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Black Rhino |
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Kariba, Zimbabwe - dispersal after release. Localised habits also contributed to their being marooned on islands. Six marked individuals were contacted after release, and all were within four miles of the release point. An adult male seen at the north eastern corner of the Umniati West bush clearing, had been noted in this area on several occasions by Mr. Stokes, the Ranger in charge of the area. It was then 3.5 miles from where it had been released six months before, which probably represented its maximum movements in 11 months, as it became marooned for a second time when Island 100 formed between this locality and the release point, in March, 1961.
In this general area, two marked rhino were seen after ?a couple of months' within ?a few miles' of the release point. One of these animals was later contacted one and a half miles from the release point a year after release, but the other died in the area in the meantime (Dr. H. Roth, pers. comm.).
An adult female was retaken on Ukubula Island, which formed nine months after its release. The break through giving rise to this island was four miles from the release point. An adult male from this island has remained within ?about five miles' for several months since its release (Warden P. Coctsce, pers. comm.) and another, liberated on the east bank of the Sengwa River, was contacted five months after release when it had moved less than three miles into the nearest suitable habitat.
On 16 April, 1961, an adult rhino was disturbed by a boat and ran about 1 mile into a bush clearing, but then slowed down and circled round, so that it headed back in the direction whence it came. When lost from sight, it was almost back in the same clump of trees from which it had been disturbed.
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