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Mammals |
| Author(s): |
Bigalke, R.C. |
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1978 |
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pp. 981-1048 |
| Reference From: | Werger, M.J.A. 1978 Biogeography and ecology of Southern Africa. Amsterdam, Junk (Monographia Biologicae, vol. 31), vol. 2, pp. 663-1439 |
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World
Ecology - Population
White Rhino
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| Home range sizes in thickets were about 2 km? and in savanna 4-4.5 km? in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve (Hitchins 1969). Joubert & Eloff found them to vary from 30 to 40 sq.km in their very dry study area, the largest being in the most and parts. The black rhinoceros is dependent on drinking water... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| They were found in wooded grassland or bushveld in South Africa as far north as Rhodesia and South West Africa, and also west of the upper Nile in Uganda, parts of Zaire and the Sudan. |
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World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros feeds on a wide spectrum of plants, although conventionally considered a browser. Trees and shrubs are indeed probably the most important bulk sources of food in most regions. In northern South West Africa Joubert & Eloff (1971) found that rhino took three species of Acacia... |
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World
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| Both African species of the family Rhinocerotidae have suffered great reductions in numbers and range. Diceros bicornis is the more widespread of the two and originally occupied the widest range of open and closed savanna vegetation types, occurring in many parts of the South West Arid, Southern... |
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World
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Black Rhino
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| There appears to be some uncertainty over social organization. Authors such as Schenkel & Schenkel-Hulliger and Joubert & Eloff found no evidence of territoriality. However Owen-Smith (1975) regards the species as being territorial and, contrary to conventional beliefs, finds little difference ... |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros feeds on a wide spectrum of plants, although conventionally considered a browser. Trees and shrubs are indeed probably the most important bulk sources of food in most regions. In northern South West Africa Joubert & Eloff (1971) found that rhino took three species of Acacia... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| There appears to be some uncertainty over social organization. Authors such as Schenkel & Schenkel-Hulliger and Joubert & Eloff found no evidence of territoriality. However Owen-Smith (1975) regards the species as being territorial and, contrary to conventional beliefs, finds little difference ... |
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Mammals
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