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Reference Base  Status of the black rhinoceros in the Masai Mara National... |
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Status of the black rhinoceros in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya |
| Author(s): |
Morgan-Davies, M. |
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1996 |
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Pachyderm |
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21 |
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38-45, figs. 1-5, table 1 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| It is generally acknowledged that the population of black rhino Diceros bicornis michaeli in what is now the Masai Mara National Reserve (the Reserve) during the mid-1900s probably numbered between 150-200 animals (Brett, 1995). However, as a result of poaching, the thinning of the Croton dicho... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| 40 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| < 13 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| 150-200 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Mara & Serengeti - Diceros bicornis. Not only is the Mara Reserve an integral part of the Mara/ Serengeti ecosystem on account of the annual migration of about two million ungulates, but also due to the movement, throughout the year, of at least 15 rhino |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The Reserve presently has five distinct rhino distribution areas (Table 1) comprised of closely overlapping individual home ranges of more than one rhino except for Musiara (E), with only one remaining animal. Currently 22 (55%) of the Reserve's 40 rhinos are resident in area A, which has always... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| There could also be the occasional movement of one or more rhinos between the Masai Mara Reserve and the Laleta Hills, four to five kilometres east of the Reserve. Two or three times each year, reports are received of rhinos being seen within the Maasai group ranches, up to eight kilometres nort... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| Figure 4 illustrates the number of calves born between 1985 -1994 and shows that the mean number of calves born per annum over the past ten years is 2.4. Assuming that the population remains stable and that in average of 2.4 calves continue to be born each year it should be possible for the popul... |
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| Despite the accomplishments of FOC and the NCC over the past decade, there is no room for complacency. What has been gained in ten years could be lost overnight. The following recommendations are made in the long-term interests of rhino management within the Reserve.
Fire management
Unco... |
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