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Title: Distribution of Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
Author(s): Choudhury, A.
Year published: 1985
Journal: Tiger Paper
Volume: 12 (2)
Pages: 25-30, maps 1-2
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
In the days of Mughal Emperor Babur (1505-1530) the rhino existed in most parts of Gangetic Uttar Pradesh.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The Moslem traveller Ibn Battuta (c.1334) mentioned rhino in accountof western and northern India.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
1984, On April 1, 1984, five rhinos landed in Dudhwa National Park of U.P., thus becoming the first rhinos to be translocated in India. Of the first five rhinos that were sent, four were captured from the fields outside the Pabitara Wildlife Sanctuary and one from Goalpara. Of the five rhinos se...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The only record of rhino from Meghalaya is one dead specimen recorded in the Northern Jaintia Hills a few years ago.
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Asia - South Asia - Pakistan
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The park covers an area of 313.7 km? and is situated near Bahawalpur.
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Asia - South Asia - Pakistan
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The first such translocated animals (a pair) were sent from the Nepal terai to Lal Sohanra National Park on March 23, 1982.
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
The park encompasses an area of about 1300 km? of which only 20% is ideal rhino habitat..
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis ranged to Myitkina (Burma) in the east.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Asian Rhino Species
With map of this trek. On January 23, 1984 the author saw a female rhino near Nagarbera village (about 100 km. west of Gauhati). This rhino is believed to have left Pabitara Wildlife Sanctuary towards the end of December 1983 along with a male. Subsequently the male was killed and the female w...
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