excessively rare, almost disappeared
Ceratotherium simum, no signs found for 20 years.
The black rhino is slowly recuperating since 1933, at least in Oubangui-Chari.
We need to note a lapsus by Malbrant, when he says that the black rhino was common in Baguirmi in Chad (not Bamingui in Oubangui-Chari, CAR) 35 years ago, because the second edition of his book (1952) says 15 years ago, just like the first edition (1936).
It now occurs from the border with Chad to that with Sudan, especially in the Chari valley, between 7 and 11 degrees north, but it is especially common east of Gribingui up to the road Fort Archambault- Nd?l?- Les Mbr?, within the reserves around the Bamingui-Bangoran Park.
Twelve years ago [1946] a group of rhinos was found in the Bahr-el-Ghazal, not far from Wau, these proved to be Diceros, not Ceratotherium.
G. Trial told me in a letter that his encounter was authentic and that it took place at the end of the dry season of 1931 or 1932.
