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| Title: |
The black rhinoceros in Zambia |
| Author(s): |
Ansell, W.F.H. |
| Year published: |
1969 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
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10 (3) |
| Pages: |
176-192, 1 map, tables 1-2 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| I have a record of former occurrence in Kawambwa District, 1028-B-2, but cannot trace details. The Kawambwa District Note Book, undated, but doubtless many years ago, recorded that rhinoceros had ?not ever been heard of in the division', and it is virtua |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Rhino occur in Kasempa District, east of the East Lunga River, where Uys has reported them in recent years on the Kaungashi stream, 1326-D-3 and D-4. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| They are also still present in the adjacent part of Ndola Rural District west of the Luswishi River, i.e. the Mininga, Mafunshi and Lwambowo drainage, 1327-C-1 and C-2, though the latest actual record is of spoor reported in 1959 by one of my staff near t |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The only recent records from the Southern Province plateau are:
in 1966 C.T. Duval found fresh spoor on the forest edge just south of the Mulele Plain, 1526-C-4; and
in October 1967 a rhinoceros was found dead in Chief Mukobela's area, 1526-D-3, about |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Diseases - Reasons of death
Black Rhino
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| Zambia. Rhino dying from fighting constitutes evidence of over-population. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| They may also extend, although unrecorded, into the extreme northwestern tip of the Kabwe (formerly Broken Hill) District, 1321-C-3. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Western Province (now Copperbelt Province), east of the Luswishi River. Pitman (1934: 86) cited a record of former occurrence of rhinoceros in the headwaters of the Luswishi River, presumably 1227-C-2; east of this there are records of past occurrence ne |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Rhino must once have been widespread on the Eastern Province plateau, but, except for those in north-eastern Chipata District and southern Lundazi District already noted, the only recent record is of a single bull which survived to about 1959 between Chip |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Only a remnant population was thought to survive in the Middle Zambezi Valley, from the Kafue confluence to Feira, until, in August 1960, a prospector, R.B. Gordon, reported one at his camp on the Chakwenga River in the escarpment, and another seen, plus |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| It now seems clear that rhino were not exterminated in the Mweru Marsh area many years ago, nor reduced to odd vagrants from the Congo as was thought (Pitman, 1934; Sidney, 1965), but that a breeding population survived in the area of the present game res |
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The black rhinoceros in Zambia
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