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Reference Base  Mortality factors and breeding performance of translocate... |
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Mortality factors and breeding performance of translocated black rhinos in Kenya: 1984-1995 |
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Brett, R.A. |
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1998 |
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Pachyderm |
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26 |
| Pages: |
69-82, figs. 1-8, tables 1-2 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| 1983, Reserve started, private |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Kenya's present rhino conservation plan has four objectives (1993):
1. to secure and protect all remaining rhinos;
2. to capture and translocate all isolated, non-breeding or non-viable rhinos or rhino groups into sanctuaries for their own protection and to contribute to breeding;
3. to remove... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| for period 1984-1995
No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 25
No. of calves that survived: 8
No. of founders that died: 8
No. surviving founders in 1995: 13
Total population in 1995: 21 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Diseases - External causes
Black Rhino
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| Release in Kenya 1984-1995. The black rhino's vulnerability to falling over cliffs and getting stuck in waterholes was always a feature of former, very large wild populations. For exarnple, after poaching, these were the major mortality factors in over 700 rhino mortalities recorded by Tsavo Ea... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Area of 56 km? |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Reserve stocked between 1970 and 1980 with 22 animals.
Until 1995 a total of 61 rhinos were translocated out of the reserve.
Total in 1995: 50 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| for period 1984-1995 in Ngulia Rhino Reserve, an Intensive Protection Zone
No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 22
No. of calves that survived: 13
No. of founders that died: 3
No. surviving founders in 1995: 19
Total population in 1995: 32 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| for period 1984-1995
No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 2
No. of calves that survived: 0
No. of founders that died: 0
No. surviving founders in 1995: 0
Total population in 1995: 67 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| for period 1984-1995, in a rhino reserve started 1988
No. of rhinos translocated into reserve: 2
No. of calves that survived: 0
No. of founders that died: 2
Total population in 1995: 0 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| Translocated rhinos, Kenya 1984-1995. Overall there was no bias in the sex ratio of calves born to translocated rhinos (22 males, 21 females, 1 unsexed). However, sex ratios of calves born in particular sanctuaries did show a marked, but not consistent bias. For example, male calves exceeded f... |
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