Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 5 6 7 8 9  Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino The ears constantly move. Its hearing and smell is well developed, but its sight is poor.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The rhino lives alone or in pairs   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino I have heard the humming sound that Burmans say this rhinoceros sometimes makes when in its wallow, but from so great a distance that I am not prepared to swear to the fact. From close quarters I have heard them utter harsh grunts, and one that I had shot emitted loud whistling screams that coul...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Large collections, of rhinoceros dung are commonly found and show that these animals, when not disturbed, are accustomed to return to the same spot for this purpose. I have seen a collection of their droppings nearly 2 feet high and 4 feet across.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Its wallows are generally found in the pockets of hills at the sources of streams springing from high and remote watershed. The wallows vary in size from a shallow depression scarcely larger than the animal itself, and apparently individual to itself, to ones 20 or 30 feet across which are used ...   details Gromier, E. 1933 En brousse Africaine - souvenirs et observations zoologiques. La Terre et la Vie 3 (11) Nov: 671-680, 8 images Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino As, however, its range of eyesight, like that of an Elephant, is limited to from thirty to forty yards it is generally fairly easy to avoid these attacks, provided the sportsman keeps his head, and is agile.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino During the day they lie up in the shade on hillsides or on the summits of ridges above streams.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino They swim well, crossing rivers.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. Both these animals were savage, and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih rhino was a well-known indivi...   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino Then as suddenly, that well remembered snorting, immediately followed by an angry roar and stamping of the brute's massive feet. That indicated business without a doubt   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino Like the White race they resort to one spot to drop their dung and then kick it about, so that the bushes near are sprinkled with it.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino Here they were in the habit of feeding and drinking during the night, but before dawn broke they set out on a four or five hours' trek to thorn scrub, in which to lie up for the day. This habit was most regular in the vicinity of the Belgian posts, where parties of native hunters were often sent...   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino For its bulk it is extraordinarily quick on its feet and covers the ground at a great speed.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino A peculiarity of both the White and Black varieties is the custom of resorting to the same spot day by day to deposit their dung, and these middens are a useful record to the hunter in search of fresh tracks.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The White Rhino of my experience does not charge on scent like the Black, but it is nevertheless well to be wary, for now and then the beast will turn on the hunter with as much ferocity as its Black relation.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino When on the move, the precedence of a family party reverses the order accepted by the White Rhino. With the Black variety the bull leads, the cow follows, and the calf brings up the rear.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino The Black Rhino feeds mostly on thorns, and like all game, especially in the hot dry season, he drinks nightly, so it is not difficult to pick up his spoor and follow him to his resting place which, in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, is usually in the hills.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino Unlike the Elephant, which generally sleeps standing, the rhino lies down, although I have seen one asleep when on his legs.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The natives are certainly as much afraid of him as they are of the Elephant, although in the opinion of most hunters he is classed as the least dangerous of all the larger game. The probable reasons for the very different opinions as to the risks of shooting Rhino is that the nature of the beast...   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino Black Rhino are as fond as the White species of wallowing in mud or rolling in dust, which gives their hides a variety of shades, from grey to red.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t...   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear. A Black Rhino f...   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t...   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Attack on train in Kenya The Black Rhino is pig-like both mentally and physically and little or no provocation is required to make it take the offensive. On at least one occasion in the earlier days of the Kenya-Uganda railway it charged an approaching train, meeting it obliquely near the front...   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino But Allah be praised, that day our luck was really incredible. We had been scouring the bush for five days, without the tiniest bit of luck. Then, when least expected, our friend passed at less than a hundred yards from the very ladang we had chosen for our camp. This sounds unbelievable, for ...   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Fighting Javan Rhino In fighting bite with the large incisor teeth, use their horn, and finish by trampling an adversary.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino They are partial to water, especially streams with rocky or shingly beds, and like to roll in wet mud.   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino With nerves taut through excitement, we crept on, careful to the utmost, for anything might be happening now. Arriving at a cluster of big trees, we found, that had we but come some minutes earlier, we could have surprised our pachyderm taking its bath in a mudpool. In these pools, called koeba...   details Witkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino We saw often the feeding remnants of these animals, which are much like those of an elephant, but they are smaller in size. We remember how it occurred to us that in many cases a young rotan had grown from a dung ball, which obviously was a fertile ground for it.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino As with Elephants, the older males often seek solitude or the company of one other male, for the greater part of the year, although at times a family party may be encountered with the calf leading the way, guided by the tip of its mother's horn, and the bull bringing up the rear.   details Lyell, D.D. 1932 Elephants and rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4136), 1932 March 26: 474 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details J.B. 1932 Elephants and rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4133), 1932 March 5: 335 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino sumatrensis wander generally in pairs, and a former experience was duplicated in that the mate returned to the body of the one killed a few minutes after the shooting, and had to be driven off by a shot fired over the head.   details Anonymous 1931 Bull rhino makes up his mind to hold up the traffic. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 158 (4117), 1931 November 21: 777 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino 1 yr old female I heard from this young animal only a whistling reducing in strength, which it uttered with mouth closed, probably a sign that it was uncomfortable. When it heard a noise, it would lift the head to listen carefully. It used the upper lip very nicely to take twigs to the mouth. ...   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino The mother of this young animal was pursued for 5 days and must have walked daily about 20 miles.   details Buckley, W. 1930 Big game hunting in Central Africa. London, Cecil Palmer, pp. i-viii, 1-268 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Memory White Rhino I call to mind a rather peculiar instance concerning rhino, which happened whilst maneuvering to get a shot at a bull elephant who was amongst a herd of others. A very inquisitive rhino would come close up and stare at us, and as I could not get out of the beast's way, and not wanting to shoot h...   details Hose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino He comes down in the heat of the day to take his ease in what are called 'salt-licks', muddy baths formed by springs of saltish water. The clearing and the mud of the bushes were, as I was told, caused by the creature's trampling movement on his way home to his lair higher up the hills. My info...   details Abbay, H. 1929 Rhinoceros - mother and young. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 154 (3993), 1929 July 6: 26 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino In general, the white rhino is more sociable than the black. One finds small groups which together go to take bath, eat, or lie in a shady place during the hot part of the day.   details Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Both the specimens killed at Pinjih in 1899 and at Kuala Serukoi in 1924 seem to have been extremely savage and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih beast had been the terror of its valley from long before the British occupation (1874) and it was only large and well armed parties that venture...   details Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The white rhino is more peaceful than the black. While the black does not hesitate to charge, the white rhino does not get to its feet that easily. I remember to have been told by an excellent sportsman who hunted in the Sudan, that he was surprised that when he approached the rhino seated on a...   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino He was so close that I could see all the creases in his thick hide, the tufts of hair sticking out of his piggy ears, and the whitish marks where he had rubbed himself against a tree.   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The bullet hit with a resounding thwack. The rhino gave a tremendous snort, rushed forward about ten yards   details William of Sweden, Prince 1925 Wild African Animals I have known (Black rhino encounter in the Tana River area, Kenya). Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., pp. 183-185,187,189,191, 7 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino The rhino destroys its dung by using the soles of its hind feet, with which its throws its dung backwards and makes it very small. On the dung piles it makes deep furrows. The dung is so much crumbed that it is almost invisible to the eye. Under special occasions, when it is in a hurry, the rh...   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino The Kaoko rhino, observed for long periods by Steinhardt, all undertook more or less long wanderings, apparently according to the seasons. For instance, the rhinos which sometimes appear near Outjo come from the middle Ugab region, and the two animals living near Orusewa go to the neighbourhood ...   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino According to Steinhardt, the Kaoko rhino is less prone to attack than the East African rhino. It would usually be happy just to scare away its enemy. When it loses the smell, it continues to run. Strangely, the Kaoko rhino would attack with raised horns, after it has lowered its head twice bef...   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino 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 ...   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino 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.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino She had a half-grown calf with her, which was wandering about making most extraordinary noises, resembling the squawking of some large bird.   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino 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.   details Maxwell, M. 1924 Stalking big game with a camera in equatorial Africa: with a monograph on the African Elephant. New York & London, Century Co., pp. 1-311, numerous plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Barns, T.A. 1923 Ngorongoro, the giant crater; and the gorilla, the giant ape. Journal of the Royal African Society 22 (87): 179-188 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino (After climbing to summit of Ololmoti, the northern crater) My followers and I arrived at the top very much out of breath and pretty well fagged, so it was a very mean advantage that two Rhino took of us on the very summit, by charging us in the rough scrub, shaking us up very badly after the ard...   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino They have irritable natures and have a stupid habit if charging down on anything that annoys their sense of smell. In hundreds of cases this has induced their death, for many a man has had to shoot a rhino in self-defence. I have myself had several narrow shaves owing to their sudden attacks.   details Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino The animals are solitary or sometimes in pairs in the deep forest.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino along the numerous rivers it has its particular places for the evacuation of excreta. Along the runs to such places it walks backwards and falls an unsuspecting victim to poachers.'   details Sykes, E.A. 1922 An East African hunting trip. Forest and Stream 92 (3): 101-103, 135-138, 139-141 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Hornaday, W.T. 1922 The minds and manners of wild animals; a book of personal observations. New York, C. Scribner Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour All Rhino Species No details available yet   details DeVere Stackpole, H. 1922 (The heart of) 'Brutus' (a Black rhino calf). Pearson's Magazine 48 (11) Nov: 21-23 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Stigand, C.H. 1921 The haunts of African game. Forest and Stream 91 (7): 291-293, 316-320 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino A great deal has been written on the pugnacious nature of the Black Rhino, most hunters saying it will charge without provo- cation. Its small eyes are bound to give the creature bad eyesight, but its hearing is well developed, and I expect they vary individually as much as any other animal. Dug...   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino The White Rhino is found in open grass veld and is of somewhat solitary habit.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino Its pace is fair for the bulk of the animal, but no match for a horse.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Senses White Rhino Its sight is bad but its hearing and scent are correspondingly good.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino It feeds at night or during the early mornings, and evenings after sunset, and sleeps during the hot part of the day.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino and is also of a solitary disposition.   details Stigand, C.H. 1920 Rhinoceros Horns. Forest and Stream 90 (7): 378-379, 1 figure Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Lang, H. 1920 Note on the above [Rhinoceros Horns]. Forest and Stream 90 (7): 379, 2 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour - Daily Routine African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Wroughton, R.C. 1918 Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, Burma and Ceylon: Report no. 29: Pegu. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25 (3): 472-481 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino I have seen tracks of four Rhinos together, and have been told by a sahib that he has seen six of these animals together. So it seems that they are at times gregarious, though generally met with singly. (Any notes on this would be very interesting. The reason may be seasonal, connected with foo...   details Roberts, F.R. 1918 Nature's camouflage. Country Life 44 November 2 1918: 377-379, 5 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Roberts, F.R. 1918 Nature's camouflage-II. Country Life 44 November 9 1918: 411-413, 5 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino They seem to be dangerous for people in their wild rage.   details Kerkhoven, A.R.W. 1916 De jachtwet. Tijdschrift Binnenlandsch Bestuur 49: 367-374 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinos can be quite troublesome. I know a subdivision growing rubber in the South Preanger, where a rhino makes an entire division of the plantations inaccessible by attacking the koelies. I have shot a rhino myself which had killed a woman.   details Kerkhoven, A.R.W. 1916 De jachtwet. Tijdschrift Binnenlandsch Bestuur 49: 367-374 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species Rhinos can be quite troublesome. I have shot a rhino myself which had killed a woman.   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino It lives in pairs.   details Gyldenstolpe, N. 1916 Zoological results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Siam, 1911-1912 & 1914-15, V: Mammals II. Kg Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar 57 (2): 1-59, pls. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino We followed its tracks for a considerable distance in the high grass through which the animal had made veritable tunnels but as the water was very deep, we were not able to stalk as silent as necessary and suddenly, I heard the animal rushing away uttering a grunting noise.   details Ditmars, R.L. 1915 An active rhino. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 18 (4): 1256 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Behaviour - Fighting Black Rhino The strength of our adult rhinoceros was an unknown quantity until demonstrated by a recent performance of Victoria in one of the yards of the Elephant House. To keep this animal from rubbing her horn against the iron of the outside fence an inner pipe fence was constructed. The latter consists...   details Gairdner, K.G. 1915 Notes on the fauna and flora of Ratburi and Petchaburi districts. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 1 (3): 131-156 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino In 1911, a female with young attacked a survey party in the Yang Choom valley and savagely bit a coolie in the arm.   details Gyldenstolpe, N. 1914 Mammals collected, or observed by the Swedish zoological expedition to Siam 1911-1912. Arkiv for Zoologi 8 (23): 1-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino During my stay at Sakerat in eastern Siam, I was told by the Chief of the village that a very large and fierce rhino had been shot some years ago quite close to the village, but after first having killed two of the hunters.   details Flower, S.S. 1914 Report on a zoological mission to India in 1913. Cairo, Government Press (Zoological Service, Publication no 26.), pp. i-viii, 1-100, pls. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino A male sumatrensis, received from the Straits settlements in 1909, and still tame enough to allow his keeper to sit on his back.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino It is a secretive animal which runs away from humans, but when it is cornered or when it has a calf, it will stay put and is often a difficult adversary. Schneider tells about an encounter where the rhinoceros fiercely attacked them without provocation and where they could only escape by running...   details Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The black rhinoceros was regarded as the most dangerous game, had first place among the five deadly enemies of men, and used to attack the locals without reason. But when the white men came, the rhinoceros charged.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino It is less courageous and therefore less dangerous. His temperament is shown by the encounters told by Dr Hagen. Hagen says that 'it often happens that a rhinoceros, during his walks, finds itself in the middle of a new tobacco plantation and it seems then that he is unhappy with this new garde...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino M?ller tells the following story about a hunt of the rhinoceros, with bad results for one of the members of the nature commission: Mr G. van Raalte, administrator and draughtsman of the Nature Commission together with Dr Macklot was hunting rhinos in the Preanger Regencies near Parang in April 18...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros lives solitary or sometimes in pairs in the densest parts of the forest   details Dracopoli, I.N. 1914 Through Jubaland to the Lorian swamp: an adventurous journey of exploration & sport in the unknown African forests & deserts of Jubaland to the unexplored Lorian swamp. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-318 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Fighting Black Rhino Suddenly they dashed off, emitting loud snorts.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino Outside the mating season it is rare to find two together.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros lives solitary or sometimes in pairs in the densest parts of the forest, where it visits early in the morning and at dusk the edges of the low forest. During most of the day, especially around noon, it immerses in the swamp or in a wallow which he frequently visits.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino The mating season is in August, according to Junghuhn. Every evening after nightfall, he heard a cry which sounded like that of a buffalo, but more refined and more wild. It was the cry of the rhinoceros. It produces a loud sniffing and blowing noise which can be heard from a great distance, b...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino In the mountains it prefers the slopes in the wide and level valleys with streams of small lakes and swamps where it can take bath. Like the buffalo, it lies fully under the water during the heat of the day, with only the front part of the head with the nose and the eyes above the water, or it i...   details Clark, A.H. 1914 Nocturnal animals. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 139-142 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine African Rhino Species The rhinoceros is strictly nocturnal. Many of the herbivorous mammals are most active by night, at which time they often make long journeys for water; this is done to avoid overheating and loss of too much water from the body; and in many places, to avoid certain insects.   details Roberts, F. R. 1914 Notes on some African big game II. The African elephant (continued). The White rhinoceros. Wild Life: an illustrated monthly 4 (4) August: 169-181, 14 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour White Rhino No details available yet   details Roberts, F. R. 1914 The Black rhinoceros. Wild Life: an illustrated monthly 5 (2) November: 59-65, 7 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Roberts, F. R. 1914 Notes on some African big game I. The African elephant . Wild Life: an illustrated monthly 4 (3) July: 112-123, 12 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Roberts, F.R. 1914 The Black rhinoceros (concluded). Wild Life: an illustrated monthly 5 (4) December: 98-102, 5 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Pearson, S.J. 1914 Habits of the white rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 123 (3193), 1914 March 7: 524 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour White Rhino No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 5 6 7 8 9