header: Black Rhinoceros
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line Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)


DISTRIBUTION

Black Rhinos were once found throughout sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of the Zaïre Basin; however, they are now limited to a patchy distribution from Cameroon in the west, to Somalia in the east and south to South Africa.12 Present in habitats ranging from desert in the southwest to montane forests in Kenya, the Black Rhino is found mainly in grassland-forest transition zones.13

Range States: Angola; Botswana; Cameroon; Central African Republic (ex?); Chad (ex?); Congo (ex?); Ethiopia (ex?); Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria (ex?); Rwanda; South Africa; Sudan (ex?); Swaziland; Tanzania; Zambia; Zimbabwe. (Ex = extinct)



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