Reference Base Notes for: Ecology back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (18)  ... 13 14 15 16 17 ...   Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Swampy ground   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino It was reported as frequenting swampy ground in the Sunderbans as well as dense hill forest up to altitudes of 4000 ft.   details Gupta, A.C. 1958 Gorumara Game Sanctuary. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 29 (4): 132-139, 1 map, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino About November, 1951, a cow-rhino with a very small calf was frequently seen. A tiger was after this calf, and one afternoon in early December when I happened to be at Gorumara with some friends, the tiger went for the calf. The cow at once charged the tiger, and a fearful battle ensued about 3...   details Verschuren, J. 1958 Ecologie et biologie des grands mammiferes (primates, carnivores, ongules). Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba, Mission H. de Saeger Fasc. 9: 1-225, pls. 1-2, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Ecology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pfeffer, P. 1958 A l'ouest de Java: La reserve d'Udjung-Kulon. Science et Nature, par la photographie et par l'image no. 28, July-Aug: 3-9, 5 images, 1 map Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Interspecific Relations Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Campbell, G. 1957 Rhino on two legs. Field 209 (5440), 1957 April 11: 570 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Food Black Rhino Observation in Karamoja, Uganda, 1925. I came on 2 rhinos, and one was up on his hind legs with his forefeet on the low boughs of a tree, eating the leaves. He appeared to be almost at full stretch.   details Avari, E.D. 1957 The Jaldapara Game Sanctuary, West Bengal. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 29 (3): 65-68, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Jaldapara, Bengal. Possessing ideal cover for the Rhinoceros, being overgrown with tall grass and reeds, with several low lying isolated swamps, this type of country grows the favourite food of the Rhino, wild ginger and the tender shoots of marsh reeds.   details Anonymous 1957 Neushoorn Suze ging zich te buiten. Artis Nieuws, Amsterdam 128 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Ecology - Food Black Rhino Amsterdam Zoo - Diceros bicornis. The female rhino has changed the rules that a herbivore does not eat meat, by suddenly eating a pigeon whole with feathers and all. The pigeon had been wounded, a healthy one would fly away when a rhino approaches.   details Campbell, G. 1957 Rhino on two legs. Field 209 (5440), 1957 April 11: 570 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Food Black Rhino Observation in Karamoja, Uganda, 1925. I came on 2 rhinos, and one was up on his hind legs with his forefeet on the low boughs of a tree, eating the leaves. He appeared to be almost at full stretch.   details Anonymous 1957 Neushoorn Suze ging zich te buiten. Artis Nieuws, Amsterdam 128 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Ecology - Food Black Rhino Amsterdam Zoo - Diceros bicornis. The female rhino has changed the rules that a herbivore does not eat meat, by suddenly eating a pigeon whole with feathers and all. The pigeon had been wounded, a healthy one would fly away when a rhino approaches.   details Avari, E.D. 1957 The Jaldapara Game Sanctuary, West Bengal. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 29 (3): 65-68, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Jaldapara, Bengal. Possessing ideal cover for the Rhinoceros, being overgrown with tall grass and reeds, with several low lying isolated swamps, this type of country grows the favourite food of the Rhino, wild ginger and the tender shoots of marsh reeds.   details Glover, R. 1956 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (4): 197 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino The following note on the Great Indian rhinoceros appeared in the United Services Journal, November, 1849. Though it bears out Mr. Shebbeare's opinion, given in the last Oryx, that in general this rhinoceros uses his 'tushes' not his horn in attack, it does also suggest that the horn may sometim...   details Owen, T.R.H. 1956 The black and the white rhinoceros. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 1 (1): 27-31, pls. 5-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Ecology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pitman, C.R.S. 1956 Weapons of the two African rhinoceroses. Oryx 3 (4): 195-196 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Ecology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Shebbeare, E.O. 1955 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (3): 125-126 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino Mr E.P. Gee, in a letter, describes an attack of an elephant by an Indian Rhino in defence of her calf. The elephant attacked was one from which Mr L.M. Talbot was watching the rhinos and it received a gash1 ? inch long by 2 inches deep. The wound was made by one tush only and the horn was not ...   details Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino They love frequent mud baths, rolling themselves for hours with lazy contentment in mud wallows as would a common village buffalo. These mud wallows are found on banks of streams in low terrain, and even on mountains heights above 5000 feet.   details Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Food Javan Rhino The Kahilu Sanctuary in Thaton Division, 62 square miles in extent, was originally instituted for the protection of Rhinoceros sondaicus (one horned variety). They are fond of eating chilli crops and do some damage to taungyas, when they roam out of range.   details Hutchinson, G.E.; Ripley, S.D. 1954 Gene dispersal and the ethology of the rhinocerotidae. Evolution 8 (2): 178-179 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Rosevear, D.R. 1953 Checklist and atlas of Nigerian mammals. Lagos, Nigerian Government, pp. 1-131 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Habitat in Nigeria, mostly Sufan Savannah.   details Natal Parks Board 1953 Nature protection in Natal and Zululand. Oryx 2 (1): 16-18 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Population Black Rhino On 29 August 1951 there occurred in Hluhluwe GR the death of the famous old bull black rhinoceros Matilda, who in recent years must surely have become the most photographed individual animal in the world and been directly responsible for visits to the reserve of innumerable tourists. Matilda has...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 The life history of the Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros (R unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (2): 341-348, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Population Indian Rhino From own experience in Kaziranga, on 6 April 1939 I photographed an old bull with an old wound on the hindquarters, known as 'boora goonda', the old big bull. On 8 Jan 1950 the same bull was seen with a cow just outside the sanctuary. The same bull was still frequenting the place in April 1952....   details Rosen, B. von 1953 Games animals of Ethiopia: a short guide for hunters and animal lovers. Addis Ababa, Swedish-Ethiopian Co, pp. 1-93 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino They like a flat, bushy country.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. Intense dislike would seem evident on the part of both species of rhino for any non-indigenous plant, shrub or article. A Black Rhino which entered he Chief Conservator's garden on numerous occasions persistently destroyed oleanders, tree dahlias and other exotic shrubs. In one n...   details Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino For purposes of record it may be noted that during September a black rhino was seen to eat a quantity of Euclea lanceolata.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino For purposes of record it may be noted that during September a black rhino was seen to eat a quantity of Euclea lanceolata.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino In Umfolozi, where at one time processed timber poles were being used, the square-lipped rhino made a regaular habit of dispersing the stacks of treated timber, som epoles being found up to 50 yards from the pile with horn marks clearly evident.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. Intense dislike would seem evident on the part of both species of rhino for any non-indigenous plant, shrub or article. A Black Rhino which entered he Chief Conservator's garden on numerous occasions persistently destroyed oleanders, tree dahlias and other exotic shrubs. In one n...   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino In Umfolozi, where at one time processed timber poles were being used, the square-lipped rhino made a regaular habit of dispersing the stacks of treated timber, som epoles being found up to 50 yards from the pile with horn marks clearly evident.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino Two rhino ate a little haulm of both groundnuts and sweet potatoes, unusual food for the species.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino In Umfolozi, where processed timber poles were being used, a Ceratotherium simum made a regular habit of dispersing the stacks of treated timber, some poles being found up to 50 yards from the pile with horn marks clearly evident.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino Two rhino ate a little haulm of both groundnuts and sweet potatoes, unusual food for the species.   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino A Black Rhino entered the Chief Conservator's garden on numerous occasions persistently destroying oleanders, tree dahlias and other exotic shrubs. In one night the animal flattened 6 out of 7 Chinese Guava trees, but indigenous trees and shrubs were left undisturbed.   details Ferguson, F.S. 1952 Correspondence (Cattle Egret on white rhinoceros). Sudan Wildlife and Sport 2 (3): 42-43, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino I enclose a photgraph which I took near Shambe of two Cattle Egrets perched upn a white rhinoceros. The Editor adds a sketch made in the field by M. Lucien Blancou, Game Warden, F.E.A., showing a Cattle Egret on a rhinoceros.   details Ripley, S.D. 1952 Territorial and sexual behaviour in the Great Indian rhinoceros, a speculation. Ecology 33: 570-573, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Burgess, P.F. 1951 A possible record of the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros in Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 5 (3): 163 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Malaysia. Licuala sp. (Palm)   details Fetherstonhaugh, A.H. 1951 Rhinoceroses. Malayan Nature Journal 5: 191-193 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The belief that R. sondaicus is found only in low-lying swampy country is contradicted by S. H. Prater who states that this species has been recorded at heights up to 7,000 feet above sea level. I have received reports of unusually large tracks in Malaya up to 4,000 feet. Similar feeding habits ...   details Burgess, P.F. 1951 A possible record of the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros in Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 5 (3): 163 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Malaysia. Licuala sp. (Palm)   details Burgess, P.F. 1951 A possible record of the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros in Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 5 (3): 163 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Malaysia, Sungei Seduli, 1949. Burgess (1951) saw rhino tracks, and three piles of palas leaves, each pile about 2 ft. by 5 ft. and 1 ? ft. high. The palas (a small palm of the genus Licuala) had been chewed off about 2 feet above the ground.   details Burgess, P.F. 1951 A possible record of the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros in Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 5 (3): 163 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Malaysia, Sungei Seduli, 1949. Burgess (1951) saw rhino tracks, and three piles of palas leaves, each pile about 2 ft. by 5 ft. and 1 ? ft. high. The palas (a small palm of the genus Licuala) had been chewed off about 2 feet above the ground.   details Fetherstonhaugh, A.H. 1951 Rhinoceroses. Malayan Nature Journal 5: 191-193 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The belief that R. sondaicus is found only in low-lying swampy country is contradicted by S. H. Prater who states that this species has been recorded at heights up to 7,000 feet above sea level. I have received reports of unusually large tracks in Malaya up to 4,000 feet. Similar feeding habits ...   details Akeley, M.L.J. 1951 Congo Eden. London, Victor Gollancz, pp. i-xxvi, 1-356 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Ecology - Interspecific Relations African Rhino Species Tickbirds accompany all the larger game such as the giraffe and the rhinoceros.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino In the rainy season the rhino live in the fields, when the pans dry up they return to the rivers.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino At night it walks to drink in the rivers or large pans in the Omuramben. Deep paths lead to the individual drinking places and from there back into the thornbush, where the rhino has many sleeping places. Many paths lead to these resting places, which are often found under a large shadowy tree.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino In June I found a 2-3 months old calf killed by hyenas.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino Oxpeckers sit on his back or in a nearby tree and warn against danger. Its cry and flight warn the rhino of danger nearby.   details Bigalke, R.; Steyn, T.; Vos, D. de; Waard, K. de 1950 Observations on a juvenile female square-lipped or white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum (Burch.)) in the National zoological gardens of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 120: 519-528, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Ecology White Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1950 Rhino vs. crocodile. Northern Rhodesia Journal 1 (2): 13 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Habitat White Rhino Uganda. We met this rhinoceros in the savannas with high plants of the sides of the Nile.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Population Black Rhino The females are a lot more numerous than the males; they live in small groups whereas the males are very often isolated.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino His square superior lip facilitates him to hold the herbs which it cuts off easily. He browses more than the black rhinoceros and eats less foliage. It is a fact which one can see in the dung that he deposits in heaps in one place that he frequents and doesn't go too far away from.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino Their favorite food is the foliage of the acacias, but they know how to break down the cactiform euphorbias to eat them, when the latex doesn't flow anymore.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino His square superior lip facilitates him to hold the herbs which it cuts off easily. He browses more than the black rhinoceros and eats less foliage. It is a fact which one can see in the dung that he deposits in heaps in one place that he frequents and doesn't go too far away from.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino This animal customarily lives among spiny bushes, but one also finds it in forests and on mountains.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The rhino has a habit of breaking down small trees for the leaves.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The rhino has a habit of breaking down small trees for the leaves.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino Their favorite food is the foliage of the acacias, but they know how to break down the cactiform euphorbias to eat them, when the latex doesn't flow anymore.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Like them, they have permanent pathways, but these are only well marked close to their den. Their trails are little distinct, except in the difficult or very often frequented places, and one realizes that they go either left or right without worrying about it.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino The small birds that they carry warn them of the approach of a danger while flying off, but when these are absent and when one approaches with a favourable wind, one can come very close to them without bothering them.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino They have an antipathy for elephants, but don't dare to attack them.   details Krumbiegel, I. 1949 Wie futtere ich gefangene Tiere?. Hannover and Berlin, Verlag Naturkunde Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Food consists of tall grasses, water hyacinth, and other aquatic plants and their roots. It is also very fond of maize and rice and can do considerable amount of damage to these crops just before they ripen.   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Food consists of tall grasses, water hyacinth, and other aquatic plants and their roots. It is also very fond of maize and rice and can do considerable amount of damage to these crops just before they ripen.   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino He is not afraid of elephants but does not like them to approach nearer than about 25 yards.   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino Tiger is natural enemy. A rhino calf has been seen which was badly mauled by tiger.   details Brightwell, L.R. 1948 Elephants and rhinoceroses. Zoo Life 3 (1): 28-31, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Forest   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Swampy ground   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Altitude   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Myanmar, Kahilu Sanctuary, 1933. Reported to be fond of eating chillie crops and doing a little damage in the fields (Ansell 1947, cf. Annual Report 1934).   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Frequents forests, and Blanford records that it has been observed at considerable elevations. But in the Sunderbans it frequents swampy ground and E.H. Peacock records a fondness for low lying swampy ground. Sterndale (1884) records one at an altitude of 4,000 feet and describes it as ?more of ...   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Myanmar, Kahilu Sanctuary, 1933. Reported to be fond of eating chillie crops and doing a little damage in the fields (Ansell 1947, cf. Annual Report 1934).   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino 5,000 feet, in Shwe-U-Daung, Myanmar, 1929 (Ansell 1947, cf. Annual Reprt 1929-30)   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Mainly if not exclusively dense hill forests.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino 6,822 feet, Dawna Range, Myanmar, 1929   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is a prehensile browser, feeding off leaves, twigs and other suitable plants inclkuding small bamboo.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is a prehensile browser, feeding off leaves, twigs and other suitable plants inclkuding small bamboo.   details Moreau, R.E. 1944 Mount Kenya: a contribution to the biology and bibliography. Journal of the East African Natural History Society 18: 61-92 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Mount Kenya. At any rate towards the north end of the mountain, where the forest is comparatively dry and open, rhinos frequent its upper edge, ca. 10,500 ft. Raymond Hook has never seen them more than half a mile out of the moorland. Also on the wetter south side D.G.B. Leakey ?can vouch for ...   details Moreau, R.E. 1944 Mount Kenya: a contribution to the biology and bibliography. Journal of the East African Natural History Society 18: 61-92 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino At any rate towards the north end of the mountain, where the forest is comparatively dry and open, rhinos frequent its upper edge, ca. 10,500 ft. Raymond Hook has never seen them more than half a mile out of the moorland. Also on the wetter south side D.G.B. Leakey 'can vouch for rhino occurrin...   details Owen, T.R.H. 1942 A few cures for snake-bite. Sudan Notes and Records 25 (1): 137-138 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Ecology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Bulletin van de Maatschappij ter Bevorderingvan het Natuurkundig Onderzoekder Nederlandsche Kolonien No. 97: 728-801, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-32, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Ecology - Interspecific Relations Sumatran Rhino [Rhinos are caught in traps with spears] After some days the path on which the animal escaped is sometimes found and followed, and often the body is already consumed by tigers, who prey on the dying animal, and parts of the rhino are flown around.   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino One of the animals had pushed down a tree of about six inches in diameter, which was now lying with its roots exposed, apparently to reach the foliage and the thin topmost twigs that had been consumed leaves and all. The animal had not eaten much, however, a fact which I noticed later in other i...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino One of the animals had pushed down a tree of about six inches in diameter, which was now lying with its roots exposed, apparently to reach the foliage and the thin topmost twigs that had been consumed leaves and all. The animal had not eaten much, however, a fact which I noticed later in other i...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The number of old rhino paths near the rivers, however, is quite large. I found these typical gullied paths, leading to the water, along every river I visited. These paths, so deeply worn into the hard river banks, must have been used for many years. They date most probably from a far distant p...   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino As usual, tick-birds (Buphaga) hunted about the hides of their great hosts. Suddenly one of these watchful birds noticed us, and, uttering a harsh, long-drawn ?chirrrrr' it fluttered anxiously into the air. Instantly the monsters stirred restlessly : tiny, almond-shaped eyes opened : and the se...   details Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus - Malaysia. It is believed that two or three are still to be found in the swampy lands of southern Perak.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Ecology - Habitat White Rhino West Africa. Their natural habitation was the soft green, thornless bush country and were often to be met with in parties of three to a dozen and more, browsing in the open like great cattle. While the slaughter was at its height many of the survivors took to heavy country, where this class of ...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level.   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino Rhinos are sometimes taken by crocodiles through their own stupidity. A croc will never tackle a rhino while actually drinking, as it will a buffalo, by grabbing or closing its great jaws over the mouth, but waits till the rhino turns leisurely to walk out. Then it fastens on to one or other of...   details Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Census Methods Javan Rhino The exceptional size (and depth), and consequently the long preservation of the tracks on good soil, can give the impression that the animal is numerous in certain areas, while in reality maybe just a single animal has passed the area several tims. Therefore the measurement of the tracks is very...   details Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The 'rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a...   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhino had jumped from one side of the narrow path to the other, leaving no footmarks amongst ours in the middle and tunnelled a passage for itself down the mountain side through the thick moss covered bushes.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Found fresh tracks on Mt. Mulu between 6-7000 feet at the summit.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino The food consists chiefly of grass. In Nepal during the rains Rhinoceros frequently enter cultivation.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather find rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs, shoots and are very partial to fallen fruit: wild mangoes, citrous fruits and figs.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The Two-horned Rhinoceros, like the Lesser One-horned species has a preference for forested hill tracts where it wanders up to considerable elevations. A sufficiency of shade and a good supply of water are essential to its habitat. A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Indian Rhino Though it prefers swamp and grass the Great Indian Rhinoceros is also found in wood jungle up ravines and low hills.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tracks lead off in all directions from these 'wallows'. They present the appearance of large tunnels hollowed through the dense undergrowth. Unlike the elephant, a rhinoceros does not break through the jungle but burrows his way through the dense tangle.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather find rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs, shoots and are very partial to fallen fruit: wild mangoes, citrous fruits and figs.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (18)  ... 13 14 15 16 17 ...