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| Title: |
Statut actuel des ongules en Somalie |
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Funaioli, U.; Simonetta, A.M. |
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1961 |
| Journal: |
Mammalia |
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25 |
| Pages: |
97-111, fig. 1 |
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| File: |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| The rhinoceros is still present with certainty in the swampy area of the lower Uebi Scebeli and in the total reserve of Bubashi. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The reason for the decline is the systematic hunting by the local people for the animal's horn, which is taken via Aden to the orient. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Our enquiries in the central and northern parts of the country, in the districts of Bulo Burti and El Bur, have been entirely negative in places where the rhinoceros was found with some regularity some 30 years ago. In that region which was officially designated to protect the rhinoceros and the... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Still present in the total reserve of Bubashi, but it is a small number. In Bubashi, the local rangers believe that they are between 10 and 15 animals. One animal, possibly from Kenya, was illegally shot near Afmedu in 1955 and a skull was found south of Afmedu in 1953. |
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Statut actuel des ongules en Somalie
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