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Reference Base  Status of the black rhinoceros in the Masai Mara National... |
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Status of the black rhinoceros in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya |
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Morgan-Davies, M. |
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1996 |
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Pachyderm |
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21 |
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38-45, figs. 1-5, table 1 |
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| In early 1980, in an attempt to halt the continued poaching and almost certain extinction of the species within the Reserve, a special rhino surveillance team was established and jointly administered by the Narok County Council (NCC), custodian of the Reserve, Friends of Conservation (FOC), then ... |
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| In early 1980, in an attempt to halt the continued poaching and almost certain extinction of the species within the Reserve, a special rhino surveillance team was established and jointly administered by the Narok County Council (NCC), custodian of the Reserve, Friends of Conservation (FOC), then ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Masai Mara. Diceros bicornis michaeli |
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| Map of Maasai Mara in relation to Serengeti. Map of comparative distribution areas of black rhinos |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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| The Reserve is centred on 1?30' S and 35?0' E in the Narok District of Kenya, approximately 200 km south-west of Nairobi. It covers an area of 1510 km? (Cumming et al., 1990). Altitude varies from 1450m ASL along the lower reaches of the Mara River where it crosses the Kenya/Tanzania internatio... |
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| Mukinya ( 1973) records that the total area of the Reserve occupied by rhinos in 1972 was 749 km?, thereby giving a density of 0.14 rhino per km?. At present the total area occupied by rhinos is only 399 km?, with a density of 0.10 rhino per km? However, taking into account the 60 km? overlap... |
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| At the present time, the Reserve holds a modest and healthy population of rhinos, as shown in Figure 3, despite their near elimination in the Masai Mara between the 1960s and 1980s.
The adult male: female ratio of 1:1.2 compares favourably with Mukinya's (1973) figure of 1:0.9, though the presen... |
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| Individual home range sizes were assessed by computing the area of a polygon by connecting the recorded peripheral points of each home range. Distribution areas were determined from groups of rhinos whose home ranges overlapped to a considerable extent. The measured home ranges, distribution ar... |
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| Masai Mara, Kenya. The calving interval, to the nearest month, is known in 11 cases and varies from 16-34 months, with a mean of 25.4 months. |
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| Masai Mara, Kenya. The only record of the age at maturity of a black rhino in the Reserve is that of Chebrech, who is recorded to have been born in May 1984 and who produced her first calf in December 1991. Based on a mean gestation period of 454 days (Hitchins & Anderson, 1983), Chebrech probab... |
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