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Reference Base The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lyd... |
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The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda |
Author(s): |
Foster, J.B. |
Year published: |
1967 |
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East African Wildlife Journal |
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5 |
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167-171, fig. 1 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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Political disturbances in the Congo in 1963 wiped out about 900 of the 1000 square-lipped rhino living in Garamba National Park (Curry-Lindahl, 1966). |
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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The few dozen rhino in the area not protected by the Reserve were under such severe poaching pressure that an attempt was made to move some of the animals east of the Nile to the safety of Murchison Falls National Park. This was accomplished in two operations, the first in March, 1961, from whic... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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In an attempt to protect the population remaining in Uganda the Uganda GameDepartment, with the financial aid of the East African Wildlife Society and the World Wildlife Fund, established the Ajai's White Rhino Reserve at Inde, West Nile District. The Reserve contains about 60 rhino in 61 square... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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Ceratotherium simum. However this species has been reported from the upper part of Bed II at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, ca. 400,000 years B. P. (Leakey, 1965), and it probably ranged over most of the continent before more efficient hunting methods by tribe |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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Six square-lipped rhino were also introduced in 1966 to Meru National Park, Kenya from South Africa and are doing well. |
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World
Morphology
White Rhino
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The square-lipped rhino is more frequently, though misleadingly, referred to as the white rhino. However, it is no lighter in colour than the black rhino and these names refer better to the temperament of the respective species. Both rhinos assume the colour of their most recent mud bath and co... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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This differing tolerance toward man extends to intraspecific aggregations. The black rhino frequently occurs singly; the square lipped rhino only rarely. Of 16 groups of the latter seen near Inde, single animals were seen only twice - an adult male and a pregnant female with a snare on its leg.... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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Much time would be necessary to assess accurately the food preferences of the rhino throughout a year. It can now be mentioned that the square-lipped rhino is a grazer (in contrast to the browsing black rhino), and that the following species of grasses are eaten in the Reserve: Chloris gayana Ku... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Ecology - Food
White Rhino
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Much time would be necessary to assess accurately the food preferences of the rhino throughout a year. It can now be mentioned that the square-lipped rhino is a grazer (in contrast to the browsing black rhino), and that the following species of grasses are eaten in the Reserve: Chloris gayana Ku... |
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