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Grzimek, B. 1965 Kenya and Tanzania continue to kill rhinos. International Zoo News 12 (3): 75-76
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
The Kenya Game Department gave special licenses to shoot 77 rhinos, allowed a further 48 rhinos in controlled areas, and reports a further 25 were killed `in defenbce of life and property'. One of the wealthyhunting clients writes: `Of course the shooting of rhino is not allowed in all areas, th...
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File AvailablePotter, P.E. 1965 A man of his time: Francis Thompson Colby. Boston, Museum of Science: pp. 1-16
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Africa
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African Rhino Species
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File AvailableAppelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Hunting
Javan Rhino
As readers may have read in the newspapers, on 31 January [1934} there was killed a good male badak (Rhinoceros sondaicus) on the southern coast of the regency of Tasikmalaja for the Zoological Museum. A few remarks will be beneficial. In the first place I want to clarify why this animal was ki...
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File AvailableField, P.A.G. 1958 The rogue rhino of Loyoro. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 1 (4): 26-28, figs. 1-2
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
Karamoja is one of the few districts in Uganda where the black rhinoceros is still common in certain localities. Even so, his present range represents but a fraction of the area he formerly covered as common place-names in the southern counties and Suk, where rhino no longer occur, bear witness. ...
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File AvailableTrial, G. 1952 Rencontres imprevues et gibiers d'exception. Cahiers de chasse et de nature no. 11 (3e trimestre): 35-44, figs. 1-3
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Africa - Western Africa
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
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Smythies, E.A. 1942 Big game shooting in Nepal (with leaves from the Maharaja's sporting diary). Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-174
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
King George V shot a young rhino in 1911. The prince of Wales shot a rhino calf in 1921.
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File AvailableDaly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Hunting
African Rhino Species
Elephant, rhino and buffalo in this short scrub bush would be easy to meet and beat, but here even a good hunter gives away points to the lion, which may charge him straight or swerve; and its pace is always faster than it appears to be. In the Tsavo country, while after a very big bull elephant...
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File AvailableUganda Game Department 1936 Annual Report for 1934. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 28: 53-59
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Hunting
Black Rhino
Thirteen pairs of black rhino horn aggregating 93 3/4 lb indicate that certain licence-holders continue to regard rhino horns from a cash basis. It remains to be seen how the situation is affected when the black rhino can only be hunted under special licence and on payment of a suitable fee.
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Uganda Game Department 1935 Extracts from the Annual report for the year ended 31st December, 1933. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 24: 36-53
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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Black Rhino
There is no dount that certain non-European licence-holders regard the one black rhino allowed on the full licence as a means of recovering the whole or at least a part of the cost of the licence by the sale of the horns.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Hunting
Asian Rhino Species
With .475- and .577-bore rifles I have never bothered to use other than soft-nosed bullets on rhinoceros, and doubt whether solid bullets are at all necessary for the Malayan variety.
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