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Title: Kaokoveld: the last wilderness
Author(s): Hall-Martin, A.; Walker, C.H.; Bothma, J. du P.
Year published: 1988
Publisher: Johannesburg, Southern Book Publishers
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-xii, 1-145
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The historical record concerning black rhino in the Kaokoveld is sporadic and incidental. Surveys by Shortridge provided the first reasonable summary of rhino distribution and habits in the territory. He found them scattered from the Ugab River to the Kunene, but nowhere east of a line from the...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Kaokoveld. The desert rhino are regarded as belonging to the nominate subspecies, Diceros bicornis bicornis, the original form described from the Cape of Good Hope by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. This opinion is based on measurements of rhino skulls from the Kaokoveld. and the historical record of bl...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Desert rhinos in Namibia. That these rhino can survive in areas with less than 100 mm mean annual rainfall is amazing. Normally rhino drink every night, yet in the Kaokoveld, because they must move great distances in search of food, they may drink only every third or even fourth night. They ut...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Desert rhinos in Namibia. That these rhino can survive in areas with less than 100 mm mean annual rainfall is amazing. Normally rhino drink every night, yet in the Kaokoveld, because they must move great distances in search of food, they may drink only every third or even fourth night. They ut...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
From these records they have compiled a reasonable understanding of the home ranges of the rhino. These are, as could he expected much larger (up to 750 km?) than those of rhino in high-rainfall areas like Zululand or Kruger National Park (100 km? ). By keeping records of the animals and regula...
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