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Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department 1939 |
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Uganda Game Department |
| Year published: |
1940 |
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Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire |
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41 |
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17-25 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| It is reported that the small Aiyu River sanctuary is particularly well stocked with white rhino. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| According to season, it is likely to be found throughout West Madi and in a great part of the West Nile district, its range extending from the Sufan border in the north to Pakwach and Panyamur in the south. In the vicinity of Rhino Camp a distinct lessening in rhino population is certainly due t... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. During February and March 1939, Captain Salmon investigated the white rhino situation in the West Nile and West Madi districts. As far as numbers, there appears to be a 50 % increase since the last investigation was made 10 years ago. Captain Salmon is of the opinion that t... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| At the end of the year four white rhino were seen together near Pakwach. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Fighting
White Rhino
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| In West Madi in October 1939 a white rhino was found dead as a result of a fight with one of its own kind. There were sixteen horn wounds on the body. |
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Reproduction
White Rhino
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| In the Koich River area the increase is particularly noticeable, and Captain Salmon came across a cow with two calves, each about 4 months old. His guide told him that he had first seen them when they were just able to stand up, probably within a day of birth, so that there can be no reasonable ... |
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Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department 1939
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