Reference Base Notes for: Ecology back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (18)  ... 14 15 16 17 18  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) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou...   details Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re...   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino Namibia. Its food consists of thorny twigs, twigs of Grewia and berries, milkbush and leaves of appletree, young camelthorn trees and fruit of 'Greesappel'.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino Namibia. Its food consists of thorny twigs, twigs of Grewia and berries, milkbush and leaves of appletree, young camelthorn trees and fruit of 'Greesappel'.   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) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino It favours the very heaviest types of evergreen forest and is usually found near the sources of streams in remote hill forests. It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills. Unlike Rhinoceros sondaicus the Sumatran rhinoceros delights in s...   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) Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Burma. The Javan differs mainly from the Sumatran in its fondness for low-lying, swampy ground, and presumably also in being of a less active and alert disposition.   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) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou...   details Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re...   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) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills.   details Jeffreys, H. 1933 Elephants and rhinos. Field 162 (4206), 5 August 1933: 379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino A large and small rhino at salt lick. Four elephants approach, small rhino disappears, the large rhino then charges the elephants with young, who remain where they are. Rhino stops his charge when about 10 yards from the elephants.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino The Black Rhino feeds mostly on thorns, and like all game, especially in the hot dry season, he drinks nightly, so it is not difficult to pick up his spoor and follow him to his resting place which, in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, is usually in the hills. As he makes for his daytime haunts he...   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Of all the larger game he keeps furthest away from the habitations of man. In East Africa instead of being a plains-loving animal as formerly, constant persecution is, I believe, making him more of a bush-dweller. It is almost incredible how an animal of that size can manage to get any nutrimen...   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1932 Kenya: pp. 250-258 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Unlike the restless Elephant on his perpetual round of feeding grounds and water holes, Rhino remain year in and year out in their own little patch of bush or forest, and to move a family of them needs considerable and persistent persecution. They have thus suffered more than Elephant by the ope...   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino They appear to be browsers, and also to like fruit, such as wild mangoes and figs; also leaves of trees, and bamboo.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino They occurred only in certain areas of hilly country in Upper and Lower Burma, preferring this type of terrain to the lowlands, and frequenting even mountainous districts. Shortridge (1915) confirms their hill-loving habits, saying that in the Dutch Indies they seem to be more of a mountain anima...   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 Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino One April night the stillness was broken by the hungry grunting of a Lion close to camp, and in the early morning we set out in search of tracks. Suddenly we caught sight of a Rhino, stretched at ease, head from us, with a number of Rhinoceros birds moving about its back. To fire at a prostrate...   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino The Black Rhino feeds mostly on thorns, and like all game, especially in the hot dry season, he drinks nightly, so it is not difficult to pick up his spoor and follow him to his resting place which, in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, is usually in the hills. As he makes for his daytime haunts he...   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino They appear to be browsers, and also to like fruit, such as wild mangoes and figs; also leaves of trees, and bamboo.   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino It is quite a habit for a Rhino when seeking its daytime resting place to turn back parallel and to leeward of its trail before it lies down, and the hunter must always be on the alert for such a contingency when following its spoor.   details Strugnell, E.J.; Willbourn, E.S. 1932 An ascent of Gunung Benom from Raub. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9: 15-27 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino On the ridge at 5500 feet high, saw fresh tracks of rhinoceros, which they follow up the mountain.   details Witkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino In the mountains near the source of the Telen, visited in 1925 by the Midden-Oost-Borneo expedition, only scarce tracks were found, partly at 2000 m high, and we found the same on the upper reach of the Atan, a tributary of the Klindjau.   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Though it had not rained for over a month, the track was easy to follow, for luckily our friend did not use the beaten paths, preferring to make a new one. At about eleven o'clock, the track became much clearer, so with the utmost care we advanced, now and then stopping motionless to listen. Su...   details Dover, C. 1932 The duration of life of some Indian animals. Indian Forester 58 (2): 81-90 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population Javan Rhino A Rhinoceros sondaicus in London lived nearly 11 years, another in Calcutta for over 14 years.   details Dover, C. 1932 The duration of life of some Indian animals. Indian Forester 58 (2): 81-90 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Sumatran Rhino Four records of R. sumatrensis show a life between 10 and 35 years.   details Dover, C. 1932 The duration of life of some Indian animals. Indian Forester 58 (2): 81-90 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Indian Rhino Fifteen records of Rhinoceros unicornis show an average life of about 29 years, a minimum of 15 1/4 years and a maximum of 47 years.   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) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.   details Flower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Black Rhino Zoo animals with maximum longevity: 1. Male in London Zoo, 19.5.1911-20.7.1924, total 13 yrs 2 months 1 day 2. Male in London Zoo, obtained on 12.2.1868 when quite young in Sudan. In London Zoo, 11.9.1868-12.4.1891, total 22 yrs 7 mo, 1 day, age ca. 23 ? years.   details Flower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Indian Rhino Data. 1. Male, London Zoo, purchased when said to be 4 years old, 24.5.1834, died 19.9.1849, 15 yrs 3 mo 25 days, age c. 19 yrs 2. Male, London Zoo, presented 9.6.1906, died 4.1.1924, age 17 yrs 6 mo, 25 days 3. Traivandrum Zoo, species no definitely stated, received March 1878, died 16.6.190...   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) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.   details Flower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population All Rhino Species Though most rhinoceros lead, in captivity, short lives of less than ten years, there is no doubt that these animals have great potential longevity, as is proved by those examples that have lived to thirty, and even to over forty years. Actually 27 selected individuals show an average life of alm...   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) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Burma. R. sumatrensis spends most of its time in the heaviest forest it can find and only occasionally climbs onto the open grass-clad ridges and spurs which are a feature of the sanctuary at elevations above 4000 feet.   details Peacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet.   details Flower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population Javan Rhino 1. Male, London Zoo, purchased 7.3.1874 to 23.1.1885, total 10 yrs 10 mo 16 days 2. Calcutta Zoo (Sanyal 1892), lived over 14 yrs.   details Flower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Sumatran Rhino 1. lasiotis in Calcutta Zoo (Sanyal 1872), circa 10 yrs 2. Female in Madras Zoo (Flower 1914), circa 14 years, and left alive 3. Male (lasiotis) London Zoo, 27.4.1886-22.11.1910, total 24 yrs, 6 mo, 25 days 4. Female 'Begum', type of lasiotis, captured in Jan. 1868 sixteen hours march south of...   details Hose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino During the course of this day's journey we were agreeably surprised to find a sort of ready-made path cleared, as far as one could guess, for our special benefit; on either side of the track the bushes were sprinkled with mud. On making enquiries I was told that a rhinoceros or some other large ...   details Graham, R.M. 1929 Notes on the mangrove swamps of Kenya. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 36: 157-164, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Rhino .. Come down to these flats at the coastal mangrove swamps at night.   details Hose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Borneo. He frequents the foothills below the mountains.   details Tate, H.R. 1929 Animals in African stories. Journal of the Royal African Society 28 (111): 323-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino The late Mr. Arthur Neumann informed me once that he had shot a rhino with a bad ulcerated wound just above the first joint of one foreleg. He had come to the conclusion that this had been caused by the teeth of a crocodile. Some readers may remember the description and photos of the drowning o...   details Burtt, B.D. 1929 A record of fruits and seeds dispersed by mammals and birds from the Singida District of Tanganyika territory. Journal of Ecology 17 (2): 351-355 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Ecology - Food Black Rhino A translation of this item by Martha Ruszkowski is freely available at http://blog.1800flowers.com/international/rhinoresource-center-uk/ [accessed December 2011].   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have.   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 Ecology - Food White Rhino The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently.   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 Ecology - Food White Rhino The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently.   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Both African species prefer land with shrubs or savannah. The black species is sometimes found in small forest areas in West Africa. This species does not mind much about the vicinity of water, as its food contains enough moisture.   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 Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino The white rhino is often accompanied by oxpeckers (Buphaga) which alarm when something is approaching.   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 Ecology - Habitat White Rhino Both African species essentially live in land with shrubs and savannah. The white rhino looks for shrub country. Its food is quite dy, fow hcih reason it tries to find places near to natural sources of water.   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Interspecific Relations Black Rhino On his back were dozens of little brown 'tick-birds,' who were busy running all over him, picking off and eating the ticks which infested his body with their sharp red beaks. Every now and then they stopped to cast bright, suspicious glances around to see if any enemy was approaching. They act ...   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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Ecology - Habitat White Rhino Thanks to their thick hide, rhinos can easily force their way through even the wildest and densest vegetation. Even in the high shrubs of the Uele, where sometimes the grass is 4 to 5 metres high at the end of the wet season, they force their paths without much effort. They seem totally at ease...   details Korschelt, E. 1927 Lebensdauer, Altern und Tod Zweite, umgearbeitete und stark vermehrte Auflage. Jena, Gustav Fischer Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population Indian Rhino Until now animals in captivity have lived for 42 and 45 years.   details Rolt-Wheeler, F.W. 1927 The tusk-hunters. Boston, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, pp. 1-308 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Ecology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Hesse, R. 1924 Tiergeographie auf Oekologischer Grundlage. Jena, Gustav Fischer Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino On Java, the forests at 1500 to 3000 m altitude are no longer as dense and dark as those lower on themountains. The rhinoceros lives primarily here, although it is still present in lower and especially higher altitudes.   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Food Black Rhino Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes.   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino likes to live in mountainous areas, where it can wander with great speed.   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Food Black Rhino Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino would also eat grass, and it does not try to remove the earth from the stumps of grass. The East African rhino would only eat bushes.   details Barns, T.A. 1923 Ngorongoro, the giant crater; and the gorilla, the giant ape. Journal of the Royal African Society 22 (87): 179-188 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino (After climbing to summit of Ololmoti, the northern crater) My followers and I arrived at the top very much out of breath and pretty well fagged, so it was a very mean advantage that two Rhino took of us on the very summit, by charging us in the rough scrub, shaking us up very badly after the ard...   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population Black Rhino This beast does not make long migratory journeys.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Ecology - Habitat Indian Rhino Nepal. Commenting on the habits of the animal General Kaiser writes, ?Though it prefers swamps and high grass the great Indian Rhinoceros is also found in wooded jungles, up ravines and low hills; along the numerous rivers it has its particular places for the evacuation of excreta. Along the ru...   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population All Rhino Species Writers have commented on the longevity of the Rhinoceros, a hundred years being given as the age.   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Providing that the reserves are of ample size and contain an adequate supply of acacia bush, which forms its diet, and water, it will survive.   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Food Black Rhino Kenya. Acacia shrubs forms its diet.   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Food Black Rhino Kenya. Acacia shrubs forms its diet.   details Southwell, T. 1922 Cestodes in the collection of the Indian Museum A. Mammals (incl Rhinoceros sondaicus). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 16 (2): 127-135 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology Javan 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 Ecology - Habitat White Rhino The White Rhino is found in open grass veld   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Unlike the White Rhino, the Black Rhino is usually found in bushy country.   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 Ecology - Food White Rhino The food of this species consists entirely of grass.   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 Ecology - Food White Rhino The food of this species consists entirely of grass.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food.   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: World Ecology - Population Sumatran Rhino Have found absolutely fresh tracks, but have not shot one. Very local. I think it is always a local animal in the most restricted sense. It lives for a week, a month, or considerably longer in an area of, say, three to four square miles, then moves to a considerable distance, returning often a...   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 Ecology - Interspecific Relations Sumatran Rhino To hunt rhinoceros on elephant back is considered by the natives as impossible, because the rhino will at once attack the elephant as soon as it get wind of it. Elephants are also said to be very afraid of rhinos and would run away as soon as the rhino is going to attack.   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is often a path-maker in the literal sense making path used by people in the impenetrable jungles.   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 Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - Thailand. Chieng Hai is situated on a large plain chiefly covered by high grass and reeds which makes travelling very difficult. However, I once tried to get a rhinoceros, the fresh tracks of which we found. We followed its tracks for a considerable distance in the h...   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 Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The neighbourhood of Chieng Hai is considered as one of the best hunting stations for these large pachyderms, and during my stay there I also several times observed their tracks in the vicinity. Chieng Hai is situated on a large plain chiefly covered by high grass and reeds which makes travellin...   details Schille, F. 1916 Entomologie aus der Mammut- und Rhinoceros-Zeit Galiziens. Entomologische Zeitschrift 30: 42-44 Location: Subject: Species: Europe Ecology - Interspecific Relations Fossil No details available yet   details Gairdner, K.G. 1915 Notes on the fauna and flora of Ratburi and Petchaburi districts. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 1 (3): 131-156 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino I have found rhino tracks up to and above 4000 feet.   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 Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Java. It is the largest animal on that island and is widely distributed, although nowhere numerous and it only lives in the remote jungles. They are found in the extensive wet and watery forests near the coast to the dry and windy summits of mountains to a height of 8000 to 9000 feet above the ...   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 Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino It is the largest animal on that island and is widely distributed, although nowhere numerous and it only lives in the remote jungles. They are found in the extensive wet and watery forests near the coast to the dry and windy summits of mountains to a height of 8000 to 9000 feet above the sea. I...   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 Ecology - Population Sumatran Rhino A pair will not tolerate another rhinoceros within half an hour.   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 Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino In the forest he follows his own paths, which he will only extend when he needs to do so to get food.   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 Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino B?ttikofer tells the following: 'Soon after arrival on the station Poenan Caves, on the western slopes of the Liang Koeboeng, we found in the wet places of the forest numerous tracks of the rhinoceros. At the same time we found many numerous young treetrunks, about the thickness of an arm, which...   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 Ecology - Food Javan Rhino The food of the rhinoceros consists of all kinds of leaves, grass, thin branches etc. He likes the leaves of Ficus nivea and Ficus fistulosa, young sprouts of the bamboo, glaga, alang alang. In remote plantations of coffee or other crops it can often do a lot of damage, for which reason there i...   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 Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino B?ttikofer tells the following: 'Soon after arrival on the station Poenan Caves, on the western slopes of the Liang Koeboeng, we found in the wet places of the forest numerous tracks of the rhinoceros. At the same time we found many numerous young treetrunks, about the thickness of an arm, which...   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 Ecology - Food Javan Rhino The food of the rhinoceros consists of all kinds of leaves, grass, thin branches etc. He likes the leaves of Ficus nivea and Ficus fistulosa, young sprouts of the bamboo, glaga, alang alang. In remote plantations of coffee or other crops it can often do a lot of damage, for which reason there i...   details Allen, G.M. 1914 Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 58: 303-357, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Specimens shot on Cheringangi Hills, Kenya, at 6000-7000 feet.   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 Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Mohnike remarked that 'with the size of these animals it is remarkable that they will ascend mountains from 8000 to 10.000 feet high. Their paths are found everywhere in the mountain ranges of Java. These paths are known to the natives; they are the deep and well-trodden paths which take you st...   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Inhabits rough, stony hills with plenty of bush about.   details Hobley, C.W. 1912 The rhino and its curious diet. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 2(4): 133 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino East Africa. Black rhino has great predilection for the Euphorbia candelabra, despite many thorns and an acid juice.   details Hobley, C.W. 1912 The rhino and its curious diet. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 2(4): 133 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino East Africa. Black rhino has great predilection for the Euphorbia candelabra, despite many thorns and an acid juice.   details Anonymous 1912 Tells of habits of rhinoceros. Forest and Stream 79 (21): 672 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1911 At what time in life does an animal grow old. New York Times 12 Feb 1911 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Population Indian Rhino Smiles, a rhinoceros in Central Park Zoo in New York. She came to the USA in 1873, when 3 years old, and was alive in 1911. Termed a two-horned rhinoceros, the picture provided is that of a (young) Indian rhinoceros.   details Mitchell, P.C. 1911 On longevity and relative viability in mammals and birds with a note on the theory of longevity. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911 (1): 425-548 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Population All Rhino Species Rhinos are large vegetable-feeding mammals, with in proportion to their size a relatively low potential longevity and viability. No. Average in months Maximum all species 10 110 342 R.bicornis 1 271 271 R.lasiotis 3 132...   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 Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino He inhabits broken country, whether stony or otherwise.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino Somaliland. He lives on the small stunted acacias, creepers, and small plants which abound in his natural habitat.   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 Ecology - Food Black Rhino Somaliland. He lives on the small stunted acacias, creepers, and small plants which abound in his natural habitat.   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 Ecology - Population Indian Rhino Female in Berlin and Frankfurt, 19 Sep 1872 - 24 Aug 1909. Male in Berlin, 19 Sep 1872 - 7 Sep 1909. Total longevity maximum 40 years.   details Drake-Brockman, P.E. 1910 Rhinoceroses living without water. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 115 (2979), 1910 January 29: 199 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Stockley, C.W. 1910 Rhinoceroses living without water. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 115 (2988), 1910 April 2: 607 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Drake-Brockman, P.E. 1910 Rhinoceroses living without water. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 115 (2990), 1910 May 21: 909 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Stockley, C.W. 1910 Rhinoceroses living without water. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 116 (3003), 1910 July 16: 154 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Freudenberg, W. 1909 Die Fauna von Hundsheim in Niederosterreich. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien 58 (2): 197-222 Location: Subject: Species: Europe - Western Europe - Germany Ecology Fossil No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (18)  ... 14 15 16 17 18