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Behaviour - Fighting |
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Indian Rhino |
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What do Asian rhinos use their horn for, if not as weapon? I have been told that they are for grubbing roots and knocking over ant0hills. One certainly often sees areas, several square yards in extent, grubbed up, especially in old, burnt savannah, and mahouts have assured me that this is the work of rhino. Unfortunately the work of pigs looks identical, so that until I have seen a rhino thus using its horn I should prefer to be guarded in my statement. Similarly, one often sees ant-hills levelled, but again, I have not seen a rhino using his horn for this.
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Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros
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