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Reference Base  Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Equateur Africain Franc... |
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Notes sur les mammiferes de l'Equateur Africain Francais - un rhinoceros de foret? |
| Author(s): |
Blancou, L. |
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1954 |
| Journal: |
Mammalia |
| Volume: |
18 |
| Pages: |
358-363 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Louis Lavauden made a single journey from Kenya to Cameroon in 1931 and then published his reports in 1932, reprinted in Brazzaville in 1933, and also in Terre et la Vie 1932, with a rhino distribution map. On these maps, Lavauden shows the presence of rhinoceros in the area formed by the border... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| On his distribution maps, Lavauden extends the region for the black rhino to the Congo-CAR border at the lower M'bomou. However, this has never been the case and the rhino lived at least 200 km further north.- Mbomou, South East CAR, ca. 6 N, 26 E |
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Africa - Western Africa - Cameroon
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| In Jan 1931, Mr. Geraud de Galassus, Administrateur des Colonies, who commanded the subdivision of Batouri in 1928-29, told me that the rhinoceros existed there in the forests, in the south of that region, that is about 4 degrees north. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Congo-Brazzaville
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| Between October 1949 and October 1953, I have heard several reports, especially from the Administrators of colonial France, Mr. Millet, Rolland and Rozan, about the existence of a rhinoceros in the equatorial rainforest, in the districts of Kell? [0.4 S, 14.30 E], Ouesso [1.37 N, 16.2 E], Dongou ... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| On his maps, Lavauden indicated the presence of white rhino in the Haut M'bomou. Although this is no longer true, it was correct earlier, but in a more narrow zone bordering the Sudanese border. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Gabon
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| Georges Trial in a paper of 1952 writes about his encounter with a rhinoceros in the savannah of the lower Ogoou? [Ogoou? River runs through Gabon]. I have been unable to find further information, but experts in Gabon are very sceptical. It must be true to say that the existence of a rhinoceros... |
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