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The rhinos of the Central African Republic |
| Author(s): |
Spinage, C.A. |
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1986 |
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Pachyderm |
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6 |
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10-13 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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Distribution - Maps
White Rhino
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Lavauden's map has for long been taken as representing the distibution of the northern white rhino, but may not be entirely accurate. Shortly before his death in 1979, M. Etienne Cannone (a French hunter who went out to Tchad at the age of eighteen and is credited with killing over a hundred bla... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| lt seems to have been Blancou (1952) who originated the story of the possible survival of the white rhino in the Central African Republic. He thought that the last survivors in Tchad and the north of the Central African Republic had been shot about 1935, but that there was a fair chance a few mi... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Gromier (1941) wrote that he saw horns of the white variety from Birao in 1931, and that a few years before 1941 he had seen several from the Vakaga region. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Lavauden also supposed that the rhino to the northeast and east of Yalinga was the white, and in 1934 he noted a white rhino killed northwest of Zemio |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Lavauden also supposed that the rhino to the northeast and east of Yalinga was the white, and in 1934 he noted a white rhino killed northwest of Zemio. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| But old stories die hard, and when I came to the Central African Republic in l974 it was still thought that the white rhino might exist the Zemongo Faunal Reserve. Jan Rugsten claims to have made two sightings of white rhino, possibly both of the same animal on the upper Ouarra River (Figure 2) ... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| Malbrant (1952) records seeing horns of white rhino in the hands of merchants at Birao in l933, and three years earlier apparently saw one on the Aouk to the north of Birao (Malbrant, 1930). Gromier (1941) wrote that he saw horns of the white variety f rom Birao in 1931. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
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White Rhino
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| However, in 1927 the British Sudan border post at Dj?n?n? seized a larger number of white rhino horns alleged to have come from Tchad, which were probably the 150 which Guy Babault saw in Khartoum and which were reported as originating from Abecher (Lavauden, 1934). |
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The rhinos of the Central African Republic
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