Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour - Social Behaviour back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2  Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino Beside old bull Diceros bicornis 'Matilda', 2 others died from natural causes. One in Dec 1951, an old cow with heifer calf known to be 17 months old, which latter for some time pugnaciously guarded the carcase.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The rhino lives alone or in pairs, sometimes a pair with a young.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The warning sound of the rhino is a soft 'quieken'; this I heard in a rhino pair when they started drinking, when they got my smell. When shot, the rhino reacts with a pig-like grunt, while when shot in the heart is emits several times a high pitched quieken.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The females are a lot more numerous than the males; they live in small groups whereas the males are very often isolated.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino The young defend their mother courageously. Here is the proof: in the company of Baron Miville, of the Museum of Basel, who shot a female, we were attacked on two occasions by her calf while we stripped it. We found in her body a fetus, which already showed the nails and the beginning of horns.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino The females appeared to us to be alone with their young or in small groups.   details Uganda Game Department 1940 Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department 1939. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 41: 17-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino At the end of the year four white rhino were seen together near Pakwach.   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino Then the mother gently touched the little fellow with her front horn, and guided him slowly away; following him closely with her great square mouth on a level with his little back.   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino The only sound I recorded (apart from alarm snorts) occurred when a bull and cow which we had been filming at 40 yards suddenly got our scent and rushed away at astonishing speed. One of them uttered a most peculiar noise, something like the deep, gasping final grunts of a stallion's whinny.   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino A most memorable occasion was that when the two guides who were accompanying us, located and led us up to a slumbering family of five White Rhinos at midday. They lay flat upon their sides-like gigantic pigs-amongst the grass in the shade of a magnificent Umkudzlu tree. The family consisted of ...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino I had scarcely been more than a few days in the game reserve when in the night I was awakened by frightened coolies who told me that a rhino had been heard close by. And the peculiar short call of a rhino was indeed repeated. The call of the rhino was later also heard several times, twice even ...   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Behaviour - Social Behaviour White Rhino Their natural habitation was the soft green, thornless bush country and were often to be met with in parties of three to a dozen and more, browsing in the open like great cattle.   details Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Social Behaviour Javan Rhino In general one cannot expect more than one animal in a certain place, except for a mother and young and of course, exceptionally, when a male and female come together.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off, their movements being affected by the water supply. They visit the wallows singly or a bull and a cow may be found together.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino The animal is solitary as a rule though several may occupy the same patch of jungle.   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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - Social Behaviour Black Rhino and is also of a solitary disposition.   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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 - Social Behaviour Black Rhino The only sounds to which it gives vent appear to be grunts, and snorts of rage.   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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2