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Title: Is rhino dehorning scientifically prudent?
Author(s): Berger, J.; Cunningham, C.
Year published: 1996
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 21
Pages: 60-68, fig. 1, tables 1-2
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Management
Black Rhino
Reply to Lindeque & Erb (1995). We contrasted calf survivorship of horned and dehorned black rhino (Diceros bicornis) females in the Namib Desert and have reported elsewhere that calf mortality was higher in a dehorned population sympatric with spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) than it was in ...
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Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
Reply to Lindeque & Erb (1995) Previously, we suggested that when dehorned mothers were sympatric with spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) in the Namib Desert, fewer calves were recruited than in the absence of hyaenas. We also pointed out that drought was likely to have exacerbated these effects...
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