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Title: Research on the effects of temporary horn removal on black rhinos in Namibia
Author(s): Lindeque, M.; Erb, K.P.
Year published: 1995
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 20
Pages: 27-30, table 1
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Diseases - External causes
Black Rhino
Kunene, Namibia - Diceros bicornis. In 1992, drought set in, up to 1993: 1 subadult died from starvation
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
In July 1993, Berger and Cunningham (1993) concluded in an unpublished progress report to the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) that three black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) calves had died in the only part of their study area in the Kunene region of Namibia where rhinos were de...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Diseases - External causes
Black Rhino
Namibia - Diceros bicornis. The brown hyaena Hyaena brunnea (which almost never preys on large mammals [Mills. 1990; Skinner & Smithers, 1990]), occurs throughout the Kunene region of Namibia, and partly overlaps in track dimensions with spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta. Much of the region has ...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
Horn growth in females dehorned in Kunene, Namibia - average horn lengths in cm 1989 0 cm 1990 6.4 cm 1991 12.8 cm 1992 19.2 cm 1993 25.6 cm 1994 32.0 cm
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Management
Black Rhino
Namibia - predation on calves of dehorned females In July 1993, Berger and Cunningham (1993) concluded in an unpublished progress report to the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) that three black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) calves had died in the only part of their study area i...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
Hyena preying on calves of dehorned Diceros bicornis A contrast in the experimental design of Berger & Cunningham (1994a) is the presence and absence of large carnivores in three parts of a large study area in northwestern Namibia, variously described as ca. 7000 km? (Berger & Cunningham. 1994...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
The fact that black rhino cows hide their small calves has been reported interalia by Joubert & Eloff (1971), Hall-Martin & Penzhorn (1977) and Owen-Smith (1988), and not for the first time as claimed by Berger (1993b). Berger & Cunningham (1994a) alleged that all three calves disappeared within...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Diseases - Bacterial
Black Rhino
Kunene, Namibia - Diceros bicornis. In 1994, 1 adult died from infection of Staphylococcus sp.
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