 Reference Base  Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Oubangui-Chari: Quelques pr... |
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Blancou, L., 1948. Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Oubangui-Chari: Quelques precisions geographiques au sujet des ongules. Mammalia 12: 1-14
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic |
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Distribution - Records |
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White Rhino |
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I believe that the white rhino no longer exists in the Chari valley. A journey in May-July 1939 through the regions where the species formerly occurred has convinced me that they have recently disappeared, i.e. the basin of the upper Aouk River: Gounda, Vakaga, Omandjia, Yata, bahr Hadjer, Bahr Oulou, Bahr Kamer, Aoukal?. The same was found by Dr Gromier who travelled at the start of 1939 in the same regions, and he believes the rhinos of Vakaga were all Diceros, not Ceratotherium. The last survivors of Ceratotherium simum were killed around 1935.
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