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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic |
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Taxonomy |
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Black Rhino |
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Central African Republic. I have recently (1985) had the opportunity to measure the skulls of three adult black.rhino from Bamingui and one from the Manovo-Gounda-Saint Floris region; and found the measurements to be closer to those of the Sudan race D.b. brucii, than they are to D.b. longipes. Thus it appears that the principal race in the Central African Republic may have been the now very rare D.b. brucii, and not D.b. longipes as Groves (1967) supposed; the Chari-Logone rivers forming the dividing line between the eastern and western races. It is hoped that a more extensive sample of skulls can be measured to verify this.
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The rhinos of the Central African Republic
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