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The rhinos of the Central African Republic |
| Author(s): |
Spinage, C.A. |
| Year published: |
1986 |
| Journal: |
Pachyderm |
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6 |
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10-13 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Shortly before his death in 1979, M. Etienne Cannone (a French hunter who went out to Tchad at the age of eighteen and is credited with killing over a hundred black rhino on the Aouk River) informed M. Lefol that he had also shot about a dozen white rhino in this region, or the Doseo, Mya and Kei... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Lavauden (1932) considered that there was no doubt that small numbers of white rhino existed at that time southeast of Abecher in the region of Coz Beida; further, a museum horn of this genus comes from east of Mangueigne in Tchad. Lavauden also supposed that the rhino to the northeast and east ... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Furthermore, if the pair of horns which Denham and Clapperton brought back from the southeast of Lake Tchad in 1824 (Malbrant, 1952; Bovill, 1966) are indeed those of a white rhino from Gaulfey (latitude 12' 25'N longitude l4'50' E), then the range clearly extended even further west in this regi... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Jeannin (1951) wrote that the Goz Sassoulko National Park `in Chad' harboured 8 white rhino. Although this area was originally a part of Tchad, at independence it became part of the Central African Republic; but the `park' was de-gazetted to a reserve in 1940, and in 1960 the greate part was ent... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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Black Rhino
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| the last stronghold was, until 1981, the Central African Republic. Before this date, it seems to have been distributed thinly throughout the area of the Republic east of about 19'E, between latitudes 07'W to about 10'N, in the east extending south to 06'N (Figure 3). |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Shortly before his death in 1979, M. Etienne Cannone (a French hunter who went out to Tchad at the age of eighteen and is credited with killing over a hundred black rhino on the Aouk River) informed M. Lefol that he had also shot about a dozen white rhino in this region, or the Doseo, Mya and Kei... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The former hunting inspector Andr? F?lix is alleged to have shot a white rhino between 1920-36 near Badia, which is on the Sudanese border to the east of the park which bears his name. The reason why the rhino shot by Cannone and Andr? F?lix are not on record is presumably because the animal was... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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Black Rhino
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| The highest density of black rhino in those areas which were explored was in the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park (an area of 11560 km? gazetted in 1933) and in a region of 1400 km? immediately to the east. Although Corfield and Hamilton (1 971) reported finding only some old tracks in the par... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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African Rhino Species
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| In 1927, the French Commission Sup?rieur de la Chasse was informed that the white rhino no longer existed in French territories (but then, somewhat illogically, it was given absolute protection by a law dated 25 August 1929) |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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African Rhino Species
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| Probably the least-known country in Africa today, with large areas of savanna woodland still unexplored, the Central African Republic has been thought, until recent times, to harbour the two genera of African rhinoceroses: Ceratotherium simum cottoni, the northern white rhino; and Diceros bicorni... |
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The rhinos of the Central African Republic
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