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| Title: |
Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni |
| Author(s): |
Appelman, F.J. |
| Year published: |
1958 |
| Journal: |
Zoologische Garten |
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24 (3/4) |
| Pages: |
284, fig. 1 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| In a place in NW Uganda, saw 12 skulls without horns from poached animals. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Hunting
Javan Rhino
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| As readers may have read in the newspapers, on 31 January [1934} there was killed a good male badak (Rhinoceros sondaicus) on the southern coast of the regency of Tasikmalaja for the Zoological Museum. A few remarks will be beneficial.
In the first place I want to clarify why this animal was ki... |
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World
Behaviour - Fighting
White Rhino
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| When the animals ran away, they would do so with the head held high and stretched tail, like in a warthog. However, he lowers the tail rather quickly. |
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Taxonomy
White Rhino
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| When I examined 12 skulls of white rhinos poached in NW Uganda, I became skeptical about the taxonomy of the genus Ceratotherium. Altough all skulls were from adult or near-adult specimens, the variation between them was so large that a splitter could have easily made two or more subspecies out ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| seen near human habitations |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| The only indication that we were gaining on the animal were the strong smell of urine in the tunnels and the dung-heaps of the animal in the form of a pyramid. The dung balls were the size of tennis balls. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| This proved difficult, because the area where the rhinoceros prefers to live is densely grown with either shrubs with many kinds of areuj-species (creepers) or with salaria, the bamboo doeri (Lantana camara). We had to bend over for hours on end following the tunnels made by the rhino and had to... |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| Although Van den Bergh said that he saw no modification in the nasal tissue of the skull at the place where the horn is attached, I found that these places are well marked. The Nasal bone, on the places where the horns have been growing, looks mushroom-like. |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Tracks in the field were 28 x 29 cm. |
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Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni
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