Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 7 8 9  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 - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino He is generally unaccompanied, is unsocial and fierce. Sometimes 7 or 8 assemble and visit a coffee or cinchona plantation where they commit serious depredations by eating the tender shoots and uprooting the younger trees.   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 Anonymous 1890 Cowed by steam (elephant-rhinoceros fight in a menagerie on a Ohio steamer). Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle Saturday 18 January 1890 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anderson, J. 1889 Report on the mammals, reptiles, and batrachians, chiefly from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 21: 331-350 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Both elephants and rhinoceroses find their way on to the island of Kisseraing. The rhinoceros, I was informed by Mr Leslie, of the Maleewon Police, whose duties frequently took him past Campbell and Forbes Islands, occurred on those islands. Species unknown. He also told me that he had once me...   details Noack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Senses Black Rhino Report by Richard B?hm - Tanzania The sight is so poor that a tent in the Ugalla-buga was not seen by a rhino who passed nearby on a trail.   details Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood.   details Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros always goes alone.   details Meyerheim, P. 1881 Ein Rhinoceroskampf im Zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) no.1988 (6 August 1881): 119-120, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Decinthel 1881 Un duel dans l'Afrique australe. La Chasse Illustrée, journal des chasseurs et la vie à la campagne 14 (43), 22 October 1881: 340, 345 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Behaviour Black Rhino No details available yet   details Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino The male uses his horn much more than the female in fighting, rubbing against trees &c. and generally manages to break or wear the end off so as to shorten it.   details Revoil, B.H. 1879 Assiegé par un rhinoceros. Journal des Voyages no.105: 2-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino When the animal is encountered suddenly in the open, it sometimes will go towards the people with its head bent down and snorting, apparently from a combination of fear and anger. Once two of my hunters were attacked by three rhinos, which following each other ran towards them with enormous spee...   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino It is usually active by night, but we have sometimes found it during the day eating on the slopes when it was raining.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino They sometimes will travel long distances to reach rice and corn fields, and do immense mischief, so much so that there is a Government reward of twenty rupees to anyone shooting a rhinoceros.   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The rhinoceros lives in pairs or in families.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino Rhinoceri are usually found in swamps where the reeds and grass are very dense, remaining hidden, often asleep, during the day: at night they come out to feed on the edge of the forest.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino If left unmolested they are, usually speaking, harmless, but when wounded, dangerous, especially to a sportsman on foot.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino Rhinoceri are in the habit of depositing their ordure in one particular spot. I have several times come across these places: apparently, from the heap of soil and the rankness of the grass around, they had been used for very many years, and on examination I invariably found fresh traces of the b...   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino Rhinoceri are in the habit of depositing their ordure in one particular spot. I have several times come across these places: apparently, from the heap of soil and the rankness of the grass around, they had been used for very many years, and on examination I invariably found fresh traces of the b...   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino We usually came across them on the edge of some inland jheel or lake, where the water was surrounded by dense reeds, grass, and jungle. The animals like to roll and wallow in the soft mud, and generally speaking their hides are thickly coated with a layer of clay.   details Bradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino In 1869, near Lahaing, between the Thungyen and Menam rivers. As we were crossing a small plain towards evening, three rhinoceroses came in sight. On the River Menam, a solitary rhinoceros was seen. Very shortly afterwards, a small herd of five rhinoceroses came right across our path and recei...   details Caraguel, C. 1875 Combat d'un elephant et d'un rhinoceros. La Chasse Illustrée, journal des chasseurs et la vie à la campagne 8 (15), 10 April 1875: 116 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1874 Fearful fight with a rhinoceros. Reynolds's Newspaper 29 November 1874: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeaking voice proceeding from the den containing the Rhinoceros. He was soon made aware of the cause of this small voice; for upon examining the den he found the beast had produced a young one.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The animal is remarkably quiet, considering that she is chained by her four feet between two trees. During night she becomes very restless, and on several occasions has contrived, by stretching her hind legs to the utmost, to reach a strongly b...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She has a peculiar habit of squirting out her urine to a great distance, s?nding it out behind her nearly twenty feet, a habit which may be the means by which the male is made aware of her presence in the dense recesses of her native forests, w...   details MacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino I have twice while looking for elephant come upon a rhinoceros, perhaps the same animal in both cases, in a large swamp, in the dense forest north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, and not far from the beautiful Bogatha stream, but although we must each time have been within a few yards of him as he was ...   details Anonymous 1871 Strange ice accident to the rhinoceros. Birmingham Daily Post 3 January 1871: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1871 Extraordinary adventure with a rhinoceros [London Zoo]. The Belfast News-Letter 7 January 1871: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Black Rhino In the hot and dry season the rhinos wallow in mud. Probably they do this to rid themselves of flies and ticks, maybe at the same time to keep the hide soft.   details Brehm, A. 1869 La vie privee des animaux. Le Voleur, Serie Illustré 42 (686), 1869 Dec 24: 807-810 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Jagor, F. 1866 Singapore - Malacca - Java: Reiseskizzen. Berlin, Julius Springer, pp. i-vi, 1-252 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino The rhinoceros is shy and rarely seen. Still there are cases when it has attacked people, possibly when it is ready for mating.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft...   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino They generally live in families of four or five together, and are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bhutan Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino They generally live in families of four or five together. - We came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino They are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino Though apparently an unwieldy animal, the rhinoceros at the top of its speed would require a good horse to beat it in a short distance.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Far remote from human habitations, it frequents during the day the densest reed covers, and passes the time either in sleep or in wallowing in the swamps, the tracks it leaves behind it being often as large as if elephants had been there.   details Junghuhn, F. 1858 Toestand der aangekweekte Kinaboomen op het eiland Java tijdens het bezoek van Zijne Excellentie de Gouverneur Generaal Chs F Pahud, in het laatst der maand July en het begin 1857, kort beschreven. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 15 (4e serie deel 1): 23-138 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Daily Routine Javan Rhino It was found that fencing of the kina trees was necessary. We found large dung heaps made by rhinoceros, and we found many tracks.   details Low, J. 1850 The Karean tribes or aborigines of Martaban and Tavai, with notices of the aborigines in Keddah and Perak. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 4: 413-432 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is found frequently in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in mud, and part of the head only visible.   details Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species Rhinos are tamed in a few months and may be seen at Gowahatty grazing on the plains as harmless as cows, guarded by a single man. When they are tame, they can be bought for 100-150 rupees. Many have been sent to Calcutta where they fetch 500 rupees.   details Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Rhinos are tamed in a few months and may be seen at Gowahatty grazing on the plains as harmless as cows, guarded by a single man. When they are tame, they can be bought for 100-150 rupees. Many have been sent to Calcutta where they fetch 500 rupees.   details Roorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species The stories that the rhinoceros is never tamed are contradicted by experience.   details Geoffroy St. Hilaire, I. 1842 Description des collections de Victor Jacquemont: Mammiferes et oiseaux. Paris, [no publisher], pp. 1-87, i-iv Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Observations by Jacquemont. A very interesting fact that has been mentioned is the use that is made of the rhinoceros in its haunts on the other side of the Ganges, as we are assured, for works in agriculture.   details Arbousset, T.; Daumas, F. 1842 Relation d'un voyage d'exploration au Nord-est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, entrepris dans les mois de mars, avril et mai 1836. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, pp. i-xii, 1-620 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Fighting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1842 Rhinoceros [broken loose in Barrackpore, Calcutta, killing a man]. Reading Mercury Saturday 15 January 1842 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Jacquemont, V. 1841 Voyage dans l'Inde pendant les annees 1828 a 1832: Journal. Paris, Firmin Didot freres, vol. 1, pp. 1-3, i-iii, 1-526 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Barrackpore, Calcutta in 1829. The animal came from the mountains on the other side of the Ganges, where I am assured, the animals are used in the works of agriculture.   details Gelpke, J.H.F.S. 1838 Schets van het eiland Nousakambang-an. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1 (2): 54-70 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinoceroses have settled on the island, but if we are to believe the story of the local people who have lived on the island for seventy years, it appears that there is only one of these dangerous animals on the island, which the people perceive as holy, and which has received the name kerto dupo...   details Low, J. 1836 History of Tenasserim. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3: 25-54, figs. 2-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinoceros horn are an article of trade but the quantity is very limited, the natives being more afraid of this animal than of the elephant or even the tiger. He is considered courageous who will venture near the spot where one may be luxuriating in the cool mud of a creek, for the animal it is ...   details Nagel, G.H. 1828 Schetsen uit mijne Javaansche portefeuille. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-117 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino They are harmless because they run away from people, and are rarely seen.   details Hodgson, B.H. 1826 Remarks on the rate of growth and habits of the Rhinoceros indicus, communicated with notes by Dr Abel. Asiatic Journal 22: 193-197 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Animal born in Kathmandu was very tame, both to its keepers as to visitors.   details Hodgson, B.H. 1826 Ueber das zu Nepaul beobachtete junge Nashorn. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 15 (325): 264 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Animal born in Kathmandu was very tame, both to its keepers as to visitors.   details Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino They are not bold and one of the largest size has been seen to run away from a single wild dog.   details Daniell, W. 1807 Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustrative scenery, designed and engraved by William Daniell. London, T.Cadell and W. Davies, vol. 2, pls. 1-63 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino It therefore nearly approaches the elephant in bulk, but differs infinitely in intelligence, being stupid, brutal and absolutely indocile.   details Daniell, S. 1805 African scenery and animals. London, Samuel Daniell, pls. 1-30 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino This animal is not by any means vicious.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 7 8 9