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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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Plans are at present well advanced for introducing black rhino to the 2 Vosloo Kudu Reserve in the eastern Cape, on the west bank of the Great Fish River, a reserve controlled by the Provincial authorities. One section covering some 3000 ha of rolling hills, dense thickets and forested gorges with open up-lands - strongly reminiscent of the topography and vegetation of Hluhluwe Game Reserve - is being enclosed in a strong cable fence, and the introduction of two bulls and two cows from Zululand is expected later in 1979. This introduction should pose no undue taxonomic problems (for taxonomists) as the extinct Cape rhinoceros D. b. bicornis was recorded from Kommadagga some 120 km to the west, while D. b. minor was known from Transkei some 140 km to the east. The original black rhinoceros of this area would therefore very likely have fallen into the narrow zone of intergradation between the two forms.
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Black rhinoceros in Southern Africa
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