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Title: The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv)
Author(s): Beavan, R.C.
Year published: 1865
Journal: Intellectual Observer
Volume: 6
Pages: 170-174
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers. The author was for some months stationed at the little ou...
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Stationed in the village of Julpigoria, an outposton this frontier, situated on the banks of the Teesta. Expedition into Bhutan in May. On return, in a small patch of reeds near a swamp, we came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos. R. fired right and left and to our intense astonishment, down dropped ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Value
Asian Rhino Species
India. As it was now dusk, we had to leave the spoil where it fell, but sent a couple of elephants and a few natives with axes next day to bring in the trophies, their heads, horns, and armour-plates, and part of the flesh, which some experimented on, cooked like a steak, but, though eatable, it...
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World
Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Hunting
Asian Rhino Species
Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers. The author was for some months stationed at the little ou...
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Bhutan, shields. The hide of the animal is made by the Bhotanese into small round shields with brash bosses let in, and are considered by them to be bullet-proof.
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
They generally live in families of four or five together, and are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
They generally live in families of four or five together. - We came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
World
Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
They are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts.
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