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Title: The mammals of Nigeria
Author(s): Happold, D.C.D.
Year published: 1987
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-xvii, 1-402
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Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Status
African Rhino Species
very rare or perhaps extinct.
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Africa - Western Africa - Cameroon
Distribution - Status
African Rhino Species
occasional individual or tracks seen
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Cameroon
Distribution - Status
African Rhino Species
Occasional individual or tracks seen.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Inhabitants of dry wooded savannas which have good cover and many shrubs. In Cameroun, they prefer rocky hilly savanna country with Terminalia laxiflora and Combretum trees, and Anogeissus riverine forrest (Bosch 1976; Stark and Witt 1977).
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Range prior to 1900 is unknown. There are a few reports of their occurrence, but only one difinite locality report dating from 1911. It is possible that they may have extended right across northern Nigeria. On a map, Rosevear (1953) indicated their occurrence in three areas between Yola, maidu...
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Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Hayward (1932) recorded rhinos from the junction of Bornu, Adamawa and Bauchi Provinces. These old records show that black rhino were widespread but local and uncommon throughout NE Nigeria in the early years of this century, but now it is most unlikely that any rhinos permanently reside in Nige...
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Location:
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Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Specimen in British Museum from Dumgo (=? Dumga).
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Collier (1940) confirmed that few rhino lived near the Gongola River and that once they were found north of Ogoja, which is much further south and west than other records.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Collier (1940) confirmed that few rhino lived near the Gongola River and that once they were found north of Ogoja, which is much further south and west than other records.
  details

Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Hayward (1932) recorded rhinos from the junction of Bornu, Adamawa and Bauchi Provinces. These old records show that black rhino were widespread but local and uncommon throughout NE Nigeria in the early years of this century, but now it is most unlikely that any rhinos permanently reside in Nige...
  details


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