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| Title: |
Threats to Aberdare rhinos: predation versus poaching |
| Author(s): |
Sillero-Zubiri, C.; Gottelli, P. |
| Year published: |
1991 |
| Journal: |
Pachyderm |
| Volume: |
14 |
| Pages: |
37-38 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| In 1985 Jenkins estimated less than 400 rhinos remained in Kenya in populations large enough for their management. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| Poaching has been the main and probably the sole cause for the depletion of the ANP rhino population. In 1982, 20 fresh carcasses were seen within one month in the Salient by S. Weller. The last outbreak of organized poaching occurred in 1984. During our study, six rhino skulls were collected an... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| During the 1970s, poaching, stimulated by the illegal trade in rhino horn, turned into a massive-scale operation. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Kenya, Aberdares. Four out of nine individually recognizable calves ohserved in the Salient had scars on flanks or hind legs and one had neither ears nor tail (Table). Earlessness (i.e. lack of pinnae) in the black rhino has been reported from a number of populations in southern and eastern Afr... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The Aberdare National Park (ANP) was famous in the past for its very high density of rhinos. This was particularly true for the Salient, a 70 km? wedge-shaped area of forest stretching down the eastern Aberdare slopes and separated from the densely populated farmland by a moat and electric fenc... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| Calf mortality. Attacks by hyenas on rhino calves in the Salient have been observed at the lodges' salt-licks for many years, although no successful attack has ever been reported. The high percentage of calves showing scars presumably inflicted by hyenas point to predation as a potential factor... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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| Rhinos can be killed by lions even when adult. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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| Conservationists have expressed fears that spotted hyenas, Crocuta crocuta, could be killing rhino calves in the Salient. Since the late 1970s the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department (WCMD) has expressed concern about the effect that a high density of spotted hyenas might have on the... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Kenya, Aberdares. Four out of nine individually recognizable calves ohserved in the Salient had scars on flanks or hind legs and one had neither ears nor tail (Table). Earlessness (i.e. lack of pinnae) in the black rhino has been reported from a number of populations in southern and eastern Afr... |
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Threats to Aberdare rhinos: predation versus poaching
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