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| Title: |
The book of Indian animals |
| Author(s): |
Prater, S.H. |
| Year published: |
1980 |
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Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press |
| Volume: |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Reproduction
Indian Rhino
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| Gestation period 16 months |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| A pair will frequent a given area for a time and then move off, their movements being affected by the water supply. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| The night and early morning are spent in wandering about and feeding, the hot hours of the day in rest in some cool and shaded spot. |
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Culture
Indian Rhino
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| In Nepal the flesh and the blood of the rhinoceros is considered highly acceptable to the manes.
High caste Hindus and most Gurkhas offer libation of the animal's blood after entering its disembowelled body.
On ordinary Sraddh days the libation of water and milk is poured from a cup carved ... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| Along the numerous rivers which flow through the jungles of the Nepal Terai the rhino has particular places for dropping its excreta; so mounds accumulate in places. In approaching these spots a rhinoceros walks backwards and falls an easy victim to poachers. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Collections of dung found in particular places reveal a habit similar to that noticed with the Great Indian One horned Rhinoceros. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| They enter streams by night and also during the hot hours of the day. In suitable spots there are regular wallows or mud-baths in which the huge creatures roll much as buffaloes and pigs do. As a result of this habit their bodies are always well coated with mud. They visit the wallows singly, ... |
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Culture
All Rhino Species
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| In Europe, during the Middle Ages, its horn was generally believed to have peculiar medicinal virtues. |
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Taxonomy - Evolution
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Asiatic Twohorned Rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatrensis) was on the other hand widely distributed in the past. It was quite abundant in the Siwalik Hills in Pliocene times. It was a geological period when these animals, favoured by a genial climate, inhabited a broad forest belt which stretc... |
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Taxonomy - Evolution
Fossil
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| Three species of rhinoceros are found within our limits. Rhinoceros unicornis and its relative Rhinoceros sondaicus have an obscure genealogical history. No representatives of these true and typical rhinoceroses have been discovered anywhere but in south-eastern Asia. Their remains are not foun... |
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The book of Indian animals
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