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Reference Base  Population history of Great Indian rhinoceros in North Be... |
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| Title: |
Population history of Great Indian rhinoceros in North Bengal and major factors influencing the same |
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Bist, S.S. |
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1994 |
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Zoos Print |
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9 (3-4) |
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42-51 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Births in the population.
1988 3 1990 2 1992 2
1989 2 1991 3 1993 3
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| analyzing records of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, 1871-1905. He killed 1 rhino and injured 1 rhino in 1893. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Legal hunting of rhinos was permissible in Bengal until the passing of the Bengal Rhinoceros Preservation Act in 1932. The Maharajah of Cooch Behar had exclusive rights to hunt rhinos within his jurisdiction. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinos in the Sankosh-Rydak region moved freely across the Assam-Bengal border and contained two separate, though overlapping subpopulations, viz. Garodhat sub-population ... and Buxa sub-population in Jalpaiguri district, occupying the forests of Bholka and Rydak reserves in the presenty Buxa Ti... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| West Bengal, threats:
1. Pressure of human population
2. Hunting
3. Poaching
4. Loss of habitat
4.1 Agriculture and tea-industry
4.2 Encroachment
4.3 Erosion through flooding
4.4 Forestry practices
5. Predation
6. Intra-specific fights
7. Accidents |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus used to exist in North Bengal, but it became extinct much earlier - the last recorded sighting made in the forests of Chilapata in 1900 (Annual Report on Game Conservation, 1936-37). |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinos existed in the District of Malda within West Bengal till the second half of 19th century. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Analyzing records of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, 1871-1905. He killed 1 rhino and injured 1 rhino in 1905. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Births, 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Births, 1 |
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