scholarly journals The Black Rhinoceros is brought back to Ruanda

Oryx ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-99
Author(s):  
J. Haezaert
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Ceratotherium Simum ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Diceros Bicornis ◽  
White Rhinoceros ◽  
Belgian Congo

Thanks to the protection afforded it by the Belgian Government, the northern race of the white, or square-lipped rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum cottoni, is increasing in the Garamba National Park of the Belgian Congo. This park was specially created in 1938 to preserve the species, whose numbers there were down to about a hundred individuals. They now probably approach 1,000. But the story of the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is very different. Once common in the savannahs of Katanga, but now exterminated there, it used also to exist in the east of Ruanda, notably in what is now the Kagera National Park. So, in 1958, bearing in mind its success with the white rhinoceros, the National Parks of the Belgian Congo decided to try to reintroduce the black rhinoceros into Kagera. This rhinoceros is still not rare in some parts of Tanganyika Territory, especially in Karagwe district, but that country is separated from the Kagera Park in Ruanda by the River Kagera itself.

Observations on the Pathology of Lesions Associated with Stephanofilaria dinniki Round, 1964 from the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)

1964 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 171-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Tremlett
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Park ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Diceros Bicornis ◽  
Made In

In South Africa, a filarioid infestation has been associated with lesions in the skin of the black rhinoceros (Schulz and Kluge, 1960). Similar lesions had been reported earlier from Kenya, as consistently occurring in these animals but their aetiology was unknown (Spinage, 1960). Recently the opportunity occurred to examine lesion material from four black rhinoceros located in the Royal Tsavo National Park Kenya. From this material adult helminths were recovered and identified (Round, 1964), and further pathological studies made. In addition, one rhinoceros showed evidence of an otitis.

scholarly journals Radio transmitter implants in the horns of both the white and the black rhinoceros in the Kruger National Park

Koedoe ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J. Pienaar ◽  
A.J. Hall-Martin
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Radio Transmitter ◽  
Related Difference ◽  
White Rhinoceros ◽  
Radio Transmitters

The procedure for implanting radio transmitters into the horns of white and black rhinoceroses is described. Mean transmitter life in the white rhinoceros was 13,9 months which is significantly longer than the 9,7 months in black rhinoceros. In the white rhinoceros a significant sex-related difference in transmitter life was found with the transmitters in males lasting a mean of 12,1 months compared to the 15,3 months in females.

Baseline Hematologic Results for Free-ranging White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in Kruger National Park, South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 916-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Miller ◽  
Peter Buss ◽  
Rachel Wanty ◽  
Sven Parsons ◽  
Paul van Helden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Park ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Ceratotherium Simum ◽  
White Rhinoceros ◽  
Free Ranging

scholarly journals Lake Nakuru Black Rhinoceros Sanctuary

Oryx ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Christopher Lever
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Lake Nakuru ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Diceros Bicornis

In an attempt to stem the decline of the black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis in Kenya, the Rhino Rescue Charitable Appeal Trust was formed in England in 1985. Within a year work on the first sanctuary, in the Lake Nakuru National Park, had begun. The sanctuary was opened in 1987, when 17 rhinos from Mr Courtland Parfet's private ranch at Solio joined the wo animals already in Nakuru. A further 11 females are due to be added to the park shortly. Rhino Rescue, of which the author is a patron and trustee, is also developing its own education programme, and is contributing to other rhino sanctuaries in Kenya.

Trypanosomiasis and the conservation of black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) at the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary, Tsavo West National Park, Kenya

1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVE MIHOK ◽  
ELI MUNYOKI ◽  
ROBERT A. BRETT ◽  
JOHN F. JONYO ◽  
DIETTER RÖTTCHER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Diceros Bicornis

scholarly journals White Rhino Extinct in Uganda

Oryx ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric L. Edroma
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
Southern Limit ◽  
Ceratotherium Simum ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
White Rhinoceros ◽  
White Rhino

The northern race of the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum cottoni is disappearing in Africa and is now believed extinct in Uganda. Commonly called the white rhinoceros because of its wide (weit) square mouth, it differs from the black rhino in size, habits and disposition. The white rhino occurred naturally in three countries: the West Nile Province of Uganda, north-east Zaire, and the Bahr el Ghazal and Equatorian provinces of Sudan. The Nile limited its eastern spread, although fossils show that it existed in Tanzania some 400,000 years ago. Its extreme southern limit was the river Ora which enters the Nile opposite Wadelai, from where it extended northwards along the western bank of the Nile through to Shambe, and then north-west through the Bahr el Ghazal drainage to the borders of Chad, where in the 1890s it was abundant. Harper reported the collection of many rhino horns yearly in Abecher. At the beginning of this century Sidney described the species as numerous in the upper waters of the Bahr Azoum and the Bahr Aoule, plentiful in the Birao area, fairly numerous north of the Uele river in what is today in Zaire's Garamba National Park, and abundant in Okolo, Aringa and West Madi in Uganda.18Rhinos were so common in all these areas that in 1919 Theodore Roosevelt's headquarters for the Smithsonian African Expedition collecting rhino products was named Rhino Camp. Here in 1932 Captain Pitman encountered 30–40 groups of at least seven individuals each within a day's walk, and he could approach to within 7–8ft because they were unharried by hunters and poachers.

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