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The Giant Golden Mole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Walter Poduschka
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Abstract

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The South African giant golden mole has been seen by few people; scientifically it is almost unknown. After two visits to South Africa to look for it, in 1978 and 1980, the author, who is Chairman of the IUCN/SSC Insectivore Group, fears that it may already be extinct in the Transkei through loss of its forest habitat, and that the same fate is to be feared in the Ciskei.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , February 1982 , pp. 232 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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