Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 6 7 8 9  Pearson, S.J. 1914 Habits of the white rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 123 (3194), 1914 March14: 557 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour White Rhino No details available yet   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino As I have said, he travels much farther there and in North Eastern Rhodesia, and one has to follow him for long distances. As often as not one picks up his night's tracks at a water hole. He often goes tremendous distances to and from water, and perhaps his grazing grounds are seven to ten mile...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In Nyasaland and North Eastern Rhodesia, however, where he is more scarce and always found in thick grass or bush, he is really a very sporting animal to shoot. The natives there fear him more than any of the dangerous game, partly because he is really dangerous in their country, and partly beca...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino In Nyasaland and North Eastern Rhodesia, however, where he is more scarce and always found in thick grass or bush, he is really a very sporting animal to shoot. In the latter countries he seems to walk much farther and has to be generally tracked up all day like elephant, instead of being come u...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino I find in my Diary for 5th November, 1907, 'Came near to Maboloni Hill. Saw seven rhino grazing near the hill and steered the caravan safely past, leaving four about a hundred yards up wind and three about four hundred yards dawn wind.' The next day I find 'Met twelve rhino all in our immediate...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Behaviour - Towards Man African Rhino Species Whilst hunting near Lake Bangweolo I followed one for the greater part of the day, and finally crept up, closely followed by the faithful Matola, within five yards of where he lay, heavily breathing in thick grass. Even then it was so thick that I could not see him properly, and bungled the shot...   details Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros is the most stupid animal imaginable. His idiotic fury makes it a very dangerous animal. When one encounters a rhinoceros in the bush, he generally does what all animals do: he runs away. It is, however, not strange to be charged by a rhinoceros when one does not even know its p...   details Lyell, D.D. 1912 Nyasaland for the hunter and settler. London, Horace Cox, pp. i-xi, 1-116 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino Generally found in pairs.   details Anonymous 1912 Charge of the rhino. Forest and Stream 79 (26): 830-831 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details White, S.E. 1912 The rambunctious rhino. The American Magazine 75 (1) November: 55-60, 3 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Roosevelt, T. 1911 Habits of the white rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 117 (3033), 1911 February 11: 281 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour Nile Rhino No details available yet   details Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino The temperament of the animal is never kind. It can never be trusted, and although it looks indefensive when sleeping, it is quite brutal in the attack.   details Drake Brockman, R.E. 1910 The mammals of Somaliland. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvii, 1-201 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino After defecating, they generally scatter their excrement in all directions, probably with a view of obliterating their spoor.   details Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino These animals are usually on their own, only together with another during oestrous.   details Drake Brockman, R.E. 1910 The mammals of Somaliland. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvii, 1-201 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Very short-sighted but endowed with a remarkable sense of smell, he can easily be approached with due precaution.   details Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino They usually sleep by day, and they use the hours of the night and early morning to look for food after taking a mudbath.   details Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino Mud bath is taken to protect it from bloodsuckers.   details Dugmore, A.R. 1910 His sulkiness, the rhino. Everybody's Magazine 22 (5) May: 624-31, 10 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lethbridge, J.A.M. 1910 Seeking African game and gold. Forest and Stream 75 (7): 248-249 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1909 Rhinoceros attacks elephant from rear. Los Angeles Herald April 11th, 1909: 11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1909 Studies in the zoological gardens - rhinoceroses. The Times (London) 1909 August 21: 10 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1909 Las fieras mas peligrosas de Africa - no son los leones. Alrededor del Mundo (Madrid) no. 593 (1909-06-09): 357 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Fighting Javan Rhino The Indian rhinoceros usually has one pair of upper and two of lower incisors; the outermost pair of' the latter being large, tusk-like, and projecting from the angles of the lower jaw, so as to make formidable weapons of offence.   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino its disposition is, however, stated to be more gentle, and in Java tame individuals are frequently to be seen wandering about the villages of the natives. Mr. T. R. Hubback, on the evidence of native testimony, affirms that either this or the next species uses its lower tusks for fighting in the...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino Morning and evening are the chief feeding-times, the heat of the day being generally passed in slumber.   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino When driven into the open, the animal will often stand for a few minutes, shaking its ears, before it makes up its mind in which direction to flee. A calf and its mother always issue forth together, but the old bulls and cows keep mostly apart, although both may have their home in the same patch...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island.; and it is probable that all the Asiatic representatives of the family will take readily to the water, although in Somaliland the African rhinoceros is found in absolutel...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino Like all its kindred, the great Indian rhinoceros loves a mud-bath, and when plastered over with the mud of some swamp or pool, looks a more than ordinarily unprepossessing creature. Its favourite haunts are generally in the neighborhood of swamps; and hilly districts are avoided.   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino That the Sumatran Rhino will attack a human without being prompted, I have experienced myself. Around 5 pm, I was in company of 3 locals, when we came to a small open place in the forest which we had to cross. One of the men whispered: 'Sir, there is a rhino over there.' And indeed I saw, at a...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Quite unexpectedly, the Bahdak raised its head, tried to get the smell, and then came directly running towards me, making grunting noises. Only with great pains I was able to hide behind the roots of a Ficus-tree, as it was difficult to run quickly in the tall grass. The attack of the animal wi...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino When we continued our march, we found a path which the animal had taken often, with a large dung heap of the rhino.   details Skeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is obtained with yet greater ease. This animal is frequently found wallowing in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in the mud and only part of its head visible. The Malays call such an animal 'badak tapa', or the 'recluse' rhino. Especially towards the close of the rain...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino In the forest of Tandjung Laut I once saw around 1 pm in a wallow a rhinoceros   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The night, early morning and evening is spent wandering about grazing, etc., and during the day they lie up in shade on the hillsides or on the top of the ridges above the streams.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino They appear to be of a restless disposition and at times given to wandering a distance from their accustomed haunts. Perhaps the most interesting feature about these creatures is the astounding way in which they ascend and descend the steepest of hill-sides. In fact the steeper the gradient th...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Senses Asian Rhino Species Their most acute sense appears to be that of smell, and, I think, they rely much more on it than sight or hearing. Making a certain amount of noise, walking through the jungle, will not always disturb them, and they assuredly are not very quick of sight, but the faintest puff of wind is more tha...   details Eliot, C. 1905 The East Africa Protectorate. London, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xii, 1-334 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros has a really bad, cantankerous temper, and that without much excuse, for his food is vegetable.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Burmans and Karens, as a rule, with the exception perhaps of the hunters, are much afraid of these animals, and this is perhaps not to be wondered at if we bear in mind the very ferocious character attributed to them. They are said to attack human beings without provocation, and to be most vindi...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino They visit the pools singly or may be found two together, usually a bull and cow.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The habit of depositing its ordure in one place as attributed to the African species and R.indicus, does not apply to these rhinoceroses, that is, if it is understood to mean that this is a place repeatedly visited for that purpose. Small heaps or mounds, perhaps the droppings of a week, may be ...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino They are extremely partial to water and enter the pools during the night and also visit them during of the day. In suitable places there are regular mud baths or wallows, some large and patronized by elephants, etc., and others much smaller. They evidently enjoy rolling in wet mud as much as bu...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino I have heard it said and believe it is recorded that rhinoceroses cannot swim. In common with many popular ideas it is a pure fallacy. They swim well, crossing rivers,. etc., when they desire to do so. I remember an instance in which one was killed while crossing the Tenasserim. It is unnece...   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino The only sound I have heard is a kind of grunt or rather a short harsh blowing sound. I heard one, a sondaicus, emit this noise when evidently surprised in cover. He heard us, and had not got the wind. On being hit, unless killed outright, they usually grunt, and also do so while charging. Bur...   details Roberts, F.R. 1905 The rhino as we met him. Country Life 17, April 1: 442-446, 8 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Schembeck, S 1905 The raid of the rhinoceroses. Wide World Magazine 14 (82) January: 378-381, 4 figures Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Evans, G.H. 1904 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (1): 160-161 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Fighting Sumatran Rhino When charging the wounded animal kept her jaws open as though with every intention of biting. The people about the hills state that rhinos do bite.   details Evans, G.H. 1904 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (1): 160-161 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Beccari, O. 1904 Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo, travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak: travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. London, Archibald Constable, pp. i-xxiv, 1-424 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino Swiftness is not a necessity, for they have no enemies they need to be afraid of.   details Anonymous 1904 Birds and beasts which wash [Sumatran rhinoceros at London Zoo]. Navy and Army Illustrated 18 July 23: 548-549, 5 plates Location: Subject: Species: Europe - Western Europe Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1903 A rhinoceros turns on his keeper and kills him. Illustrated Police News Saturday 11 July 1903: 3 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino These animals in captivity are very quiet for most of the day remaining immersed in a wallow of liquid mud and thickly coated with it after the manner of a buffalo. During the evening and night they are much more active roaming up and down the enclosure.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino They ate sweet potatoes [etc] and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak much out of proportion to the size of the animal. They made no other noise except by snorting now and then but in the forests, what I suppose to be the same species makes a loud neighing sound.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The animals were both of a quiet and inoffensive disposition, allowing themselves to be stroked and patted and readily fed from the hand although they had been quite recently caught.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino These animals in captivity are very quiet for most of the day remaining immersed in a wallow of liquid mud and thickly coated with it after the manner of a buffalo. During the evening and night they are much more active roaming up and down the enclosure.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino They drink remarkably slowly and only a small quantity at a time, eat very large quantities of food, and pass the excreta always in exactly the same spot and almost always at night as the tapir does.   details N.B.S. 1901 The aggressive rhino. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 97 (2512), 1901 February 16: 217 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino they are very fond of wallowing in pools and plastering themselves all over with clay and mud   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino when moving along it holds its head high up, and if a calf is present it follows its mother instead of preceding it.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino very keen   details Sclater, P.L. 1900 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull and horns of the square-mouthed rhinoceros and mounted heads of two antelopes obtained by Major AStH Gibbons on the Upper Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 December 4: 949 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino exceedingly poor   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino as a rule they are solitary, or found associating in small parties of two or three individuals, though there may have been a good many in the neighbourhood; Harris, for instance, speaks of seeing eighty in one day.   details Ridley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily ...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino in disposition it is morose and solitary with coarse and uncouth manner, great irascibility, unbounded curiosity and singular nervous excitability; it is subject to paroxysms of fury when it tears up the ground in great furrows with its horns, and behaves generally in a most whimsical manner. Mu...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Fighting Black Rhino when disturbed it makes off in any direction, usually down wind, but after a short way gradually wheels round up wind, its pace being fairly good, better than that of the square-mouthed species.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino and their excrement which they scatter about with their horns and never allow to accumulate, is dark coloured and full of twigs and chips.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino it is generally solitary, being of a morose and unsociable disposition, though of course occasionally associating in small family parties.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino they drink in the evening, and at dawn, often wallowing at the latter time.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino The pace of the rhinoceros is fairly good considering its bulk; its swift trot will easily surpass man's power but it is, of course, no match for a horse   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino They feed at night, or in the cooler part of the morning and evening, spending the day in sleep as often as not in the open veld under the shade of some solitary tree, but sometimes concealed in thick bush; when thus found asleep they are awakened with great, difficulty and can be approached near...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine White Rhino It has a curious habit of always depositing its excrement at the same place where it accumulates in enormous masses; when these have reached an inconvenient height it sometimes demolishes the mass with its horn, moreover, owing to the nature of the food, the animal can always be identified by th...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The square-mouthed rhinoceros is always spoken of as a most mild and inoffensive creature, very sluggish and unsuspicious; its sight is very bad, though scent and hearing seem to be acute; this no doubt is so, and accounts to a great extent for its almost total extermination, but at the same time...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The only sounds to which it gives vent appear to be grunts, and snorts of rage.   details Sclater, P.L. 1900 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull and horns of the square-mouthed rhinoceros and mounted heads of two antelopes obtained by Major AStH Gibbons on the Upper Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 December 4: 949 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino very keen   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino On his 16 months' journey to Lake Rudolph, a few years ago, Dr. Donaldson-Smith found Rhino in many places a perfect pest. They would frequently rush out at members of his caravan, walking innocently along a jungle path, and would even charge through the line of camels ; a camel on one occasion,...   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino As an. item in the list of big game, he sometimes affords sufficient excitement, as he habitually charges when wounded, and not infrequently when unwounded and entirely without provocation; but on the whole he would appear to be much less formidable than the elephant.   details Grogan, E.S.; Sharp, A.H. 1900 From Cape to Cairo: the first traverse of Africa from south to north. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvi, 1-377 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino I consider the rhino an overrated beast and cannot think that he cannot be really dangerous in any but thick country. He certainly will charge, unprovoked at times, but it is only a blundering resentment at the unwelcome scent of the intruder. A shot at close quarters will almost invariably tur...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump   details Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino Met with in pairs or in small companies.   details Neumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros generally run away from man as all animals. Sometimes they will charge without cause. I do not believe that they differ in disposition in different localities.   details Smith, A.D. 1897 Through unknown African countries: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London and New York, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xvi, 1-471 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The animal lay on the ground about a minute before he died, uttering all the time those ridiculous squeaking sounds.   details Ridley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino It seems usually to move about at night, though one may come upon it by day.   details Ridley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino It is a quiet, inoffensive beast.   details Goetzen, G.A. Graf von 1895 Durch Afrika von Ost nach West: Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von den Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Kuste bis zur Kongomundung in den Jahren 1893/94. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, pp. i-xii, 1-417 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino Some days later, we saw no less than 7 rhinoceroses. One of them went through the chain of our carriers and caused a great panic.   details Ridley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino It has a habit of dropping its dung in the same place daily, a habit common to the tapir also.   details Goetzen, G.A. Graf von 1895 Durch Afrika von Ost nach West: Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von den Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Kuste bis zur Kongomundung in den Jahren 1893/94. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, pp. i-xii, 1-417 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Some days later, we saw no less than 7 rhinoceroses. One of them went through the chain of our carriers and caused a great panic.   details Anonymous 1895 The rhino's promenade. Forest and Stream 44 (8): 122 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino They go to the river at night to drink and bathe. They travel considerable distances to the river and wander all night up and down the channel looking for a convenient pool, and making a maze of tracks in the soft sand.   details British Museum (Natural History) 1894 Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 5th ed. London, British Museum (Natural History) Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino it was of a milder and more timid disposition than the ? black ? species, and capable of being tamed.   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino Everywhere in Central Ogaden the caravan tracks are furrowed in grooves a yard or more long and six inches deep, which look like the work of a plough. This is done by the rhinoceros plunging his front horn and hard thick lip into the ground as he walks along.   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinos were not more prone to charge than elephants, and I only had one narrow escape.   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino I have never seen more than three together.   details Gillmore, P. 1893 Black rhinoceros attacking a waggon. The Graphic Saturday 14 October 1893: 470 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Hoehnel, L. von 1893 A fight with a rhinoceros. Lincolnshire Chronicle Friday 1 December 1893 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino A very remarkable circumstance connected with the mother was her unexpected quietness; for she had, previously to the birth of the young one, been inclined to attack the keeper or any one who went near her; but after the young one was born, she allowed the keeper to enter the den and milk her as ...   details Stanley, H.M. 1891 Antics of a baby rhinoceros. Hall's Journal of Health 1891: 166 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The animal lives in the deep forests from which emerges in the early morning and before sunset. The rest of the day, especially during the hot parts, it lies in a hidden wallow which it visits regularly.   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino The rhinoceros is fierce, but flies from man. When wounded or a female with calf, the rhino is dangerous and hard to kill.   details Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros lives alone or at most as a pair.   details Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The Malay on Sumatra differentiate two species, one the Badak krbo is larger and rather quiet and inoffensive, and the smaller Badak tenggiling, which is quite aggressive and always attacks men.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 6 7 8 9