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Reference Base  Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the... |
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Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923 |
| Author(s): |
Faunthorpe, J.C. |
| Year published: |
1924 |
| Journal: |
Natural History |
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24 (2) |
| Pages: |
174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Hunting
Indian Rhino
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| Vernay stalked her on foot and shot her through the neck, at a range of about twenty yards, killing her with one bullet. The neck shot is the most deadly for rhino, aim being taken between the deep neck creases, which are such a marked feature of this curious animal, about two-thirds of the way ... |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
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| He was a big and very old male, whose horn had been splintered and worn down to about 8 inches by digging or fighting.
I saw the rhino still in the water and managed to get up near him just as he was leaving the pool. This proved to be a fine male with a horn rneasuring 12 ? inches. He had ev... |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| It seems to be extraordinarily regular in its habits. In the evening or late in the afternoon the rhinos of the region where we hunted emerge from the heavy jungle and wallow in the numerous pools and backwaters near the Gandak River. They spend the night in feeding and in the early morning are ... |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Behaviour - Fighting
Indian Rhino
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| I saw the rhino still in the water and managed to get up near him just as he was leaving the pool. This proved to be a fine male with a horn measuring 12 ? inches. He had evidently been fighting and had festering incised wounds on flank and in stomach. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| She had a half-grown calf with her, which was wandering about making most extraordinary noises, resembling the squawking of some large bird. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| It seems to be extraordinarily regular in its habits. In the evening or late in the afternoon the rhinos of the region where we hunted emerge from the heavy jungle and wallow in the numerous pools and backwaters near the Gandak River. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| There is demand for their flesh, and on the part of the Chinese, particularly for their horns, which Mr Douglas burden tells me are also in demand in French Indo-China. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| Burma. There is demand for their flesh. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
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| The great Indian one-horned rhinoceros is, of course, the biggest rhinoceros in the world. His horn is smaller than are those of the African rhinoceroses, either the black or the white, but in height and bulk he far exceeds the African species. The males we shot measured well over seventeen han... |
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