Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour - Daily Routine back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  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 - 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 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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: 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 - 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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 back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3