Comments on: Gabon’s Rhinos

By: Desertdweller

Desertdweller — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:56:56 +0000

I agree, too.

This is the same point I have been making here about the appearance of cougars in the Central and Eastern US.

Animals not only roam, they re-establish territory, and sometimes survive out of sight only to re-appear.

Although we are several hundred miles from traditional moose country, a pair of moose have established themselves at the west end of our lake. This isn’t the case of a brain-damaged individual, it is a pair who may produce a calf next spring.

We already have elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, and cougars. But moose, that’s something new!

By: BukitTimahMonkeyMan

BukitTimahMonkeyMan — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:33:18 +0000

I agree.Black rhinos are native to Cameroon and Angola.A few could have easily strayed into Gabon by mistake.Based on research,the most likely suspect would be the South Western Black Rhinoceros.Also,if you check Wikipedia for Black Rhinoceros,there is a small picture of Africa with colours indicating where Black Rhinos live.Near the area of Gabon,there is a black blotch,symbolising that Black Rhinos are extinct in the area.

By: mandors

mandors — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:31:29 +0000

I am often puzzled by the static conceptions that biologists have for the locations of various species. A rhino has a range of hundreds and hundreds of miles at least. So a few take a left turn instead of a right? They end up in Gabon. Is that really that hard to imagine?

The same thing happens in this country with the cougar. The animal has an enormous range, the northeast has reforested itself at rate far greater than most environmentalist had thought, and yet the possibility that one or two cougars have wandered in from Canada or the midwest, only four or five hundred miles away, is scoffed by wildlife experts. That’s not science; it’s blind orthodoxy.