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Historic Distribution in Namibia
The Historic Distribution of Buffalo in the Region
Buffalo were widely spread throughout the southern Africa
savannas and occurred in most vegetation types including lowland
and montane forest, moist and dry woodlands, and open savannas
and grasslands except where rainfall was limiting and other
requirements such as shade and water could not be met.
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Regional Distribution
According to Martin's regression (Figure
5) buffalo would have occurred throughout Zimbabwe and
Zambia and almost all of Botswana and Angola except for their
extreme south-western corners (Figure
7).
Of the once wide coastal distribution in the Cape province
of South Africa (Smithers 1983) only the relict Addo population
now survives. Early historical records confirm the occurrence
of buffalo in the Cape peninsular (Skead 1982). Skead also
gives records of buffalo near Kakamas in the northern Cape
in 1777, near Augrabies Falls in 1779 and 65km west of Springbok.
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