It was reintroduced in Malawi, Botswana and Zambia. It is considered extinct in Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mocambique. It appears mainly in reserves in countries mentioned previously. It stayed in north-eastern South Africa (the province of the Republic of South Africa-KwaZulu-Natai) across north-eastern Tanzania into south-eastern Kenya.
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It is the most distributed subspecies which has quite compact body, rather big head and a lot of skin folds. South-central black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis minor) Today, it exists only in Namibian wildlife reserves and can be noticed in Angola intermittently. It primarily lived in north-eastern and southeastern Namibia and Angola. The small subspecies, which was adapted to live on deserts and semi-deserts. South-western black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis occidentalis) Black rhinoceros, hook-lipped rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis). Today, its range is restricted to Tanzania. It primarily lived in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and north-central Tanzania. Eastern black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis michaeli) It is considered extinct in most of the above-mentioned areas and it probably lives only in Kenyan reserves. The previous area of distribution was southern Sudan, across Uganda, western Kenya and southwestern Ethiopia. Uganda black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis ladoensis) It is nearly extinct and there is probably only one specimen in Botswana. The range of distribution is restricted to the Cuando River (Chobe) in southeastern Angola, Namibia and northern Botswana. Chobe rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis chobiensis) It was on 10 th November 2011 that it was classified as an extinct subspecies. The research in 2006, which was carried out to examine the probable range of distribution in Cameroon, was not successful in results because scientists stated that it was extinct in wild at that time. The last wild animal was found in northern Cameroon. It lived in South Sudan, the northern part of Central Africa Republic, southern Chad, northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. It appeared 7-8 million years ago on Earth but during contemporary years, the number of its population started rapidly falling because of hunting for pleasure as well as hunting for its long horns which are considered the aphrodisiac and the cure in some cultures. Western black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis longipes) – extinct Last species disappeared at the beginning of XX century. It existed in Southern Sudan, Eritrea, north and south-east Ethiopia, in Djibuti and northern and south-eastern Somalia. North-eastern black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis brucii) – extinct It was probably the biggest subspecies of the black rhinoceros but it became extinct in 1850 because of excessive hunting and destroying its habitat. In the past, it used to live on areas from the Cape of Good Hope via Transvaal (the province in the Republic of South Africa) to Southern Namibia. Southern black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis bicornis) – extinct It is commonly believed that there are 7-8 subspecies, three of which are critically endangered or extinct. The variability within species was considered by many scientists but it has not been solved eventually. Classificationīlack rhinoceros, hook-lipped rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis). Every year the situation is getting sadder, because in the reserves is difficult to keep rhinos in good health and with life in general.
However, it is known that at least three of them are classified as extinct in the wild. It is hard to estimate exactly the number of subspecies of the black rhinoceros. Black rhinoceros, hook-lipped rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis)
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