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Title: The black rhinoceros is brought back to Rwanda
Author(s): Haezaert, J.
Year published: 1959
Journal: Oryx
Volume: 5 (3)
Pages: 96-99, figs. 1-3
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
Thanks to the protection afforded it by the Belgian Government, the northern race of the white, or square-lipped rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum cottoni, is increasing in the Garamba National Park of the Belgian Congo. This park was specially created in 1938 to preserve the species, whose number...
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
But the story of the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is very different. Once common in the savannahs of Katanga, but now exterminated there, it used also to exist in the east of Ruanda, notably in what is now the Kagera National Park. So, in 1958, bearing in mind its success with the white ...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
But the story of the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is very different. Once common in the savannahs of Katanga, but now exterminated there.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The fact that Karagwe still has perhaps a hundred black rhinoceros is without doubt due to its almost inaccessible terrain. Valleys and thickly wooded mountain sides provide excellent shelter for these animals, and it is only at the height of the dry sea
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Translocation - Methods
Black Rhino
From Tanzania to Rwanda. The capture of a rhinoceros. Mr. de Beer directs operations at the wheel of his Dodge. On the platform behind him are his assistants. They have a very flexible rod about 3 metres long carrying the noose end of a special rope, 1 ? cm. in diameter. The other end of this...
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Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Kagera NP, Rwanda. Their favourite food seems to consist of tender Acacia seyal and Acacia senegal. Sometimes they like to eat a branch of Euphorbia calicina or Asparagus africanus.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Kagera NP, Rwanda. Their favourite food seems to consist of tender Acacia seyal and Acacia senegal. Sometimes they like to eat a branch of Euphorbia calicina or Asparagus africanus.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Diseases - Reasons of death
Black Rhino
Translocation from Tanzania to Rwanda. At Mihindi, being too small to face the dangers of the bush, he had to remain in the compound, where unfortunately he died from the after-effects of an attack of enteritis.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Translocation - Immobilization
Black Rhino
In the meantime, an American scientific mission from Florida was working hard to perfect an anaesthetic based on crystallized nicotine salicylate, but although this method had proved effective for antelopes and for deer, rendering them unconscious for about 20 minutes, it had not succeeded with a...
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
Capture in Tanzania to take to Rwanda The table below gives details of the captured animals. Name Approx.age Sex Height (m) Length of horns Date of capture First Second 1958 Kyerwa 3 ? years F 1.20 14 5 30 J...
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