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Reference Base  The use of drinking sites, wallows and salt licks by herb... |
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The use of drinking sites, wallows and salt licks by herbivores in the flooded Middle Zambezi Valley |
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Jarman, P.J. |
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1972 |
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East African Wildlife Journal |
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10 |
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193-209, tables 1-11 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| When the dam in the kariba Gorge was closed in December 1958 the waters of the Zambezi River rose to fill the upper part of the Middle Zambezi Valley, forming Lake Kariba. In the process about 5500 km? of land were flooded, along 240 km of the valley. The lake reached full storage level in late... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Behaviour - Daily Routine
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| Wallows used by buffalo and rhinoceros may consist simply of an area of churned up, damp mud, insufficiently deep to act as a pool. Both these species apply mud to themselves by rolling and wallowing, and have no effective means of scooping it up unto themselves. Rhinoceros will horn the soil a... |
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