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Reference Base  Wild life in the Sudan, part III White and black rhinoce... |
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Wild life in the Sudan, part III White and black rhinoceros and giant eland |
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Schomber, H.W. |
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1963 |
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African Wildlife |
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17 (1) |
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29-35, figs. 1-4 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| distribution of white and black rhinoceros |
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Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis subspecies. Whether the Black rhino of the Sudan, together with those in western Ethiopia, constitutes a special geographical sub-species has up to now not been definitely established. It nevertheless appears wrong to consider it as representative of the Somali rhinoceros (Dice... |
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Black Rhino
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| The number of the Black rhinos has been severely decimated bv intensive hunting in past decades by both the Europeans and the natives. Many early travellers (e.g. Baker, Heuglin, Brehm, Marno) state that they were comparatively numerous in the northeastern part of the Sudan near the Aethiopian-E... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
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White Rhino
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| It is uncertain whether there is any extension of the distribution to the north in the district between the Bahr-el-Arab streams and the Lol river. Tracks were found, it is true, here and there in the area, but it could not be said with certainty whether they were of the White or Black rhinos. ... |
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White Rhino
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| In the south-western Sudan there are two protected areas, the Southern National Park and the Nimule National Park, in which the Square-lipped rhino enjoys absolute protection. In view of the fact that those animals outside the reserve also belong to the fully protected species and that poaching ... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| In so far as habits and habitats are concerned they do not differ from their South African cousins. They live in savannah bush, where they are encountered singly, in pairs or in small troops of five or six head. |
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Ecology - Habitat
White Rhino
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| In so far as habits and habitats are concerned they do not differ from their South African cousins. They live in savannah bush, where they are encountered singly, in pairs or in small troops of five or six head. |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
White Rhino
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| In general outward appearance the fifferences between the animals of the north and the south are not distinguishable. |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
White Rhino
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| In general outward appearance the fifferences between the animals of the north and the south are not distinguishable. |
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Taxonomy
White Rhino
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| In 1908 the English. zoologist R. Lydekker described the recently-discovered Square-lipped rhinoceros of Central Africa as a new geographical sub-species on account of its different skull-formation, and gave it the scientific name Ceratotherium simum cottoni. In general outward appearance the fi... |
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