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| Title: |
Black rhino return to Swaziland |
| Author(s): |
Reilly, T. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
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REF Journal |
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3 |
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20-23, fig. 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Chances of obtaining black rhino were enhanced by the 1987 rescue operation which was being heavily sponsored by WWF in the Zambezi Valley, where rhino were falling prey to poachers at the average rate of one per day, and here approximately 30 poachers had already been shot dead in anti-poaching ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Black rhino (Diceros bicornis minor) disappeared from Swaziland at about the close of the 19th century. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Black rhino (Diceros bicornis minor) disappeared from Swaziland at about the close of the 19th century. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Reintroduction of Diceros bicornis from Zimbabwe. Since the early 1960s, we have been trying to acquire black rhino to re-establish the species in Swaziland. In those early years, Swaziland had not yet fully established its bona fides in the conservation arena, and more latterly was not conside... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Translocation - Methods
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis Swaziland - behaviour towards fence. We kept the rhinos confined in bomas, each separately compartmented, for 2 months before releasing the first two animals, Mayaluka and Kakayi. Mayaluka began browsing immediately he left the pens. He walked slowly down the fenceline - and t... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis Swaziland. On the rhino's arrival, we experimented with different browse offerings and among the favourite foods were the fruit of the sausage tree Kigelia africana, various combretum species and Securinega virosa (white berry bush). On release, Euphorbia ingens found to be a sp... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis Swaziland. On the rhino's arrival, we experimented with different browse offerings and among the favourite foods were the fruit of the sausage tree Kigelia africana, various combretum species and Securinega virosa (white berry bush). On release, Euphorbia ingens found to be a sp... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| Released animals. Mayaluka returned to the boma often, where he demolished bushes and churned up the soil in a territorial display against Fecele, who was in an adjacent area separated by electrified wire. The two bulls frequently display along this fenceline and square up to each other, but to... |
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Black rhino return to Swaziland
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