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Title: Mortality factors and breeding performance of translocated black rhinos in Kenya: 1984-1995
Author(s): Brett, R.A.
Year published: 1998
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 26
Pages: 69-82, figs. 1-8, tables 1-2
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Kenya's total population of about 440 black rhinos is fragmented into more than 15 sub-populations, none numbering more than 70 animals.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
for period 1984-1995 No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 21 No. of calves that survived: 12 No. of founders that died: 1 No. surviving founders in 1995: 19 Total population in 1995: 31
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
1948, reserve established, 150 km?
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Without intensive management involving the continuous monitoring of population size and structure, and the periodic introduction and exchange of unrelated rhinos, most or all of the these populations are not viable in the long term. The recommendations of a Population and Habitat Viability Analy...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
for period 1984-1995 No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 2 No. of calves that survived: 0 No. of founders that died: 1 No. surviving founders in 1995: 1 Total population in 1995: 58
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
for period 1993-1995, in Intensive Protection Zone No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 20 No. of calves that survived: 0 No. of founders that died: 1 No. surviving founders in 1995: 19 Total population in 1995: 19
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
for period 1984-1995 No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 4 No. of calves that survived: 0 No. of founders that died: 2 No. surviving founders in 1995: 2 Total population in 1995: 13
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
for period 1984-1995 No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 20 No. of calves that survived: 3 No. of founders that died: 5 No. surviving founders in 1995: 15 Total population in 1995: 18
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Reserve stocked between 1963 and 1980 with 37 animals. Until 1995 a total of 26 rhinos were translocated out of the reserve. Total in 1995: 64
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Private reserve, 20 km? in 1983, 40 km? in 1987, 213 km? in 1994
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