File AvailableLydekker, 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
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Sumatran Rhino
As regards the cheek-teeth, those of the upper jaw are practically indistinguishable from the corresponding molars of the Javan rhinoceros, and may accordingly be taken as indicative of the leaf- and twig-eating propensities of this species.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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World
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
As regards the cheek-teeth, those of the upper jaw are practically indistinguishable from the corresponding molars of the Javan rhinoceros, and may accordingly be taken as indicative of the leaf- and twig-eating propensities of this species.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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Indian Rhino
As already stated, the structure of the teeth indicates that its food is chiefly grass; and such observations as have been made confirm the truth of this inference.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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Asia
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Sumatran Rhino
In habits the Sumatran rhinoceros appears to be very similar to the Javan species; both affecting forested hill-country, which may be at a considerable altitude above the sea.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
Although found in the swampy Sandarbans of Lower Bengal, within a day's journey of Calcutta, the Javan rhinoceros prefers forest tracts to grass-jungles, and is generally met within hilly districts where it apparently ascends in some parts of its habitat several thousand feet above sea-level.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Indian Rhino
In the jungles of Assam the Indian rhinoceros not only dwells, but is as completely concealed as is a rabbit in a cornfield. To those who have never seen Indian grass jungles, it may seem incredible that such a huge animal should be hidden by such covert, but when it is realised that the grass of...
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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World
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Indian Rhino
As already stated, the structure of the teeth indicates that its food is chiefly grass; and such observations as have been made confirm the truth of this inference.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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World
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Indian Rhino
As a matter of fact, the rhinoceros, like the Indian buffalo, makes regular tunnels, or 'runs,' among this gigantic grass; and from these retreats it may be driven out by beating with a line of elephants, or by tracking on foot.
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File AvailableLydekker, 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
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World
Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
Individuals have lived for over twenty years in the London Zoological Gardens, and it is stated that others have been kept in confinement for fully fifty years. Consequently, there is no doubt that the animal is long-lived, and it has been suggested that its term of life may reach as much as a c...
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File AvailableHeck, L.; Heinroth, O. 1906 Fuehrer durch den Berliner Zoologischen Garten. Berlin, Zoologischer Garten
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Berlin Zoo. The young specimen (4 years) drinks daily 22 liter milk besides all the other food.
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File AvailableHeck, L.; Heinroth, O. 1906 Fuehrer durch den Berliner Zoologischen Garten. Berlin, Zoologischer Garten
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Berlin Zoo. The young specimen (4 years) drinks daily 22 liter milk besides all the other food.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
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.
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File AvailableJohnston, H.H. 1906 British Central Africa, an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambesi, 3rd ed. London, Methuen and Co, pp. i-xix, 1-544
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World
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Black Rhino
Found all over British central Africa except on high plateaus.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Asian Rhino Species
Burma - species not mentioned. With regard to the nature of their food I am inclined to think that these rhinoceroses are not great grass-feeders, but prefer to browse ob leaves, twigs, shoots, etc., and they seem very partial to fruits. In the dry season the stomach generally contains wild man...
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File AvailableSanyal, R.B. 1905 Report of the Honorary Committee for the Management of the Zoological Garden, for the year 1904-05. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Depot, pp. 1, 1-23
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Species:
Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Calcutta Zoo. The Indian rhino now living in the garden, will not touch any kind of grain, but will readily eat sutoo made into a pulp with gur.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Sumatran Rhino
they do not fear elephants or tigers.
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File AvailableTjeenk Willink, H.D. 1905 Mammalia voorkomende in Nederlandsch-Indie. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indi 65: 153-345
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Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros occurs both in the plains and in inaccessible mountains.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
In the cool weather they may wander a good deal as also during the rains, ranging along the ridges and visiting the head waters of streams. During the rainy season R. sumatrensis certainly tours through the lower-lying country, as their tracks are to be met with within, in some places, three or ...
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Asian Rhino Species
Burma - species not mentioned. With regard to the nature of their food I am inclined to think that these rhinoceroses are not great grass-feeders, but prefer to browse ob leaves, twigs, shoots, etc., and they seem very partial to fruits. In the dry season the stomach generally contains wild man...
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Both species in this country show a decided preference for hilly tracts and even mountainous country. In the hot season they are invariably found in hilly or mountainous country, by no means necessarily well wooded, but where shade is sufficient. They rarely range far from the perennial streams i...
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
I have met with tracks of both varieties at considerable elevations, especially in places infrequently visited by men.
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File AvailableDelme-Radcliffe, C. 1905 Rough notes on the natural history of the country west of Lake Victoria Nyanza. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905 (2): 181-191
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
The rhinos appear to have no hesitation in frequenting the extremely steep and difficult hills of Karagwe. Their tracks and signs were seen up and down hills and on ridges which appeared more adapted to the habits of klipspringers and goats than of such bulky animals as rhinos.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Sumatran Rhino
they do not fear elephants or tigers.
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File AvailableSanyal, R.B. 1905 Report of the Honorary Committee for the Management of the Zoological Garden, for the year 1904-05. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Depot, pp. 1, 1-23
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Subject:
Species:
Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Calcutta Zoo. The Indian rhino now living in the garden, will not touch any kind of grain, but will readily eat sutoo made into a pulp with gur.
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File AvailableEliot, C. 1905 The East Africa Protectorate. London, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xii, 1-334
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World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
It is said that he attacks and gores ostriches and other animals.
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File AvailableBroun, W.H. 1905 Heads of Rhinoceros bicornis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905 November 14: 297
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
In Kenya in 1904, shot a female near Jambeni Mts. At 4150 feet above the sea, and a male north of Aberdares 9600 ft above sea.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1904 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (1): 160-161
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. The contents of the stomach consisted of wild mangoes and other fruit, leaves and twigs of a tree not recognised, and the twigs and leaves of a species of bamboo known locally as 'Kayen-wa'.
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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World
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Chewing mud. Photo of Rhinoceros unicornis, animal was actually chewing the mud when the photo was taken.
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File AvailableBeccari, O. 1904 Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo, travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak: travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. London, Archibald Constable, pp. i-xxiv, 1-424
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros, although adapted for existence in unwooded regions, is also perfectly organised to wander amid dense vegetation, where their weight and size ensures an easy passage.
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1904 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (1): 160-161
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. The contents of the stomach consisted of wild mangoes and other fruit, leaves and twigs of a tree not recognised, and the twigs and leaves of a species of bamboo known locally as 'Kayen-wa'.
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
these colossi were continually attended by their winged sentinels, the faithful rhinoceros bird (Buphaga africana), ever alert to give their dull-witted hosts notice of approaching danger by their shrill cries, or by thrusting their beaks into their ears.
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File AvailableMaud, P. 1904 Exploration in the southern borderland of Abyssinia. Geographical Journal, London 23 (5): 552-579
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
expedition Jan 1903 with L.J. Baird in South Ethiopia Its banks are fringed with tropical vegetation, but a few yards away from the river one is confronted by thick thorn bush, through which it was often difficult to find a way for the caravan. Elephant and rhino tracks were ubiquitous. These ...
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File AvailableEvans, G.H. 1904 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (1): 160-161
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Sumatran Rhino
It is highly probable that the calf was killed by a tiger a few days after birth, more especially as the old cow was found to be severely bitten on one hind leg.
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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World
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Chewing mud. Photo of Rhinoceros unicornis, animal was actually chewing the mud when the photo was taken.
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File AvailableWeczerzick, A. 1904 Nashorn im Kampf mit einem Leoparden. Gartenlaube 1904: 765-766
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Asia - South Asia
Ecology
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableFrenzel, O. 1904 Rinoceronte atacando a un tigre para obligarle a soltar su presa. Iris (Barcelona) 6, no. 281 (1904-09-24): 5, plate only
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Asia
Ecology
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Sumatra. Rhinos were eating leaves of trees and bananas. There were some large trees with Bua-Kayu fruit, which the rhinos like to eat.
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File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Sumatra. Rhinos were eating leaves of trees and bananas. There were some large trees with Bua-Kayu fruit, which the rhinos like to eat.
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File AvailableBarnes, W.D. 1903 Notes on a trip to Gunong Benom in Pahang. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39: 1-18
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
On almost the highest point was a quantity of rhinoceros' dung.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. They ate sweet potatoes, sugar cane, champedak, fruits and leaves, and the leaves of the Mahang Putih (Macaranga hypoleuca) and various species of Ficus, especially the Waringin (Ficus Benjamina) and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak m...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. They ate sweet potatoes, sugar cane, champedak, fruits and leaves, and the leaves of the Mahang Putih (Macaranga hypoleuca) and various species of Ficus, especially the Waringin (Ficus Benjamina) and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak m...
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong. As the animal was captured in January 1868, its age at death was more than 32 years.
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File AvailableOustalet, E. 1900 La longevite chez les animaux vertebres. Nature (La) 28: 378-379
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World
Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
The longevity in rhino is probably less than in elephant. An Indian Rhino in the Paris menagerie at the start of the 19th century was over 25 years old and showed signs of age; according to Mr. Cornish, a rhinoceros of the same species lived for 37 years in the London Zoo.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Ecology - Food
White Rhino
The food of this species, in contradistinction to the other, consists entirely of grass of which it consumes enormous quantities. It drinks very regularly about midnight, and is never a great distance from water.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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World
Ecology - Food
White Rhino
The food of this species, in contradistinction to the other, consists entirely of grass of which it consumes enormous quantities. It drinks very regularly about midnight, and is never a great distance from water.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Asian Rhino Species
Malaysia - no species indicated. At Alor Star, Kedah, the malays told me no rhinoceros was known in that district, which is mostly flat; they looked on it as an animal only inhabiting the mountains. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish...
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Subject:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
South Africa. The common rhinoceros frequents bush covered country more than the open grass-lands, and is often found in rocky stony districts.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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World
Ecology - Habitat
White Rhino
The square-mouthed rhinoceros is found in open country, and is particularly fond of the wide grassy valleys so frequently met with on the high veld of Matabele and Mashonaland
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Its food consists entirely of the leaves, twigs, and sometimes the roots of certain bushes and shrubs, never of grass.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
like many of the other large thin-haired animals they are constantly accompanied by rhinoceros birds (Buphaga), which feed on the ticks and other parasites lodged on the skin of their host, and give timely warning of any approaching danger; when the rhinoceros is disturbed, and makes off, the bir...
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Species:
World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Its food consists entirely of the leaves, twigs, and sometimes the roots of certain bushes and shrubs, never of grass.
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File AvailableBolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336
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World
Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
The rhinoceros had to be euthanized. It came on 14 March 1870 when young, and lived here 30 years and 3 months. It was a male from India.
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File AvailableBolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
One Indian rhino had lived 8 yrs 9 mo 16 days until 31.12.1878 and was still alive..
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File AvailableBolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336
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Species:
Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
Zoo Hamburg. One Sumatran Rhinos lived for 4 yrs 2 months and 6 days in the zoo.
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File AvailableDoughty, F.W. 1900 How the elephant fights. Happy days: a paper for young and old 11 (285), 31 March 1900: 12-13
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Species:
Asia
Ecology
Indian Rhino
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File AvailableArago, J. 1899 Los pajaros custodios. Alrededor del Mundo 14 December 1899: 7-8
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Species:
Africa
Ecology
African Rhino Species
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File AvailableNeumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Rivers Pane and Bila, Sumatra. Rhinos of two species are found both in the plains and on the highest and most inaccessible mountains.
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File AvailableBurrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire)
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Frequents marshy jungles.
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File AvailableHenri d'Orleans 1898 De Tonkin aux Indes, Janvier 1895 - Janvier 1896. Paris, Calmann Levy, pp. i, 1-442
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
On 1 Dec 1895, we climbed into the valley of Nam Tsa? on a reasonably good road. The public works on bridges and roads are done here by the rhinoceros who level and enlarge the paths by their frequent passage.
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File AvailableBrauer, F. 1897 Beitraege zur Kenntnis aussereuropaeischer Oestriden und parasitischer Muscarien. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien 64: 259-282, figs. 1-18
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Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology
All Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableBreslau Zoo 1896 Geschaeftsbericht des Breslauer Zoologischen Gartens fuer das Jahr 1895. Zoologische Garten A.F. 37 (9): 278-283
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Species:
Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
Indian rhino died, it was 42 years old.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Species:
Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
It frequents the hill jungles, ascending up to 4000 feet altitude.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
It has a habit of constantly using the same track.
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File AvailableBrauer, F. 1895 Bemerkungen zu einigen neuen Gattungen der Muscarien und Deutung einiger Originalexemplare. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 104: 582-592, pl. 1
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Species:
World
Ecology
All Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableBaumann, O. 1894 Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle: Reisen und Forschungen der Massai-Expedition des deutschen Antisklaverei-Komite in den Jahren 1891-1893. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, pp. i-xiv, 1-385
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
The next day we came to the Tarangire River. On the other bank there was a dead rhino, which had been killed by some lions.
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File AvailableSwayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Somaliland. The ground they like best is very stony broken hills with some river-bed not too many miles distant, where thet can go at night to drink and bathe.
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File AvailableCharlton, J. 1893 A wounded rhinoceros defending its young against a lion. The Graphic Saturday 2 December 1893: 685
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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File AvailableBrauer, F. 1892 Ueber die aus Afrika bekannt gewordenen Oestriden und insbesondere ?ber zwei neue von Dr Holub aus S?dafrika mitgebrachte Larven aus dieser Gruppe. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 101: 4-10, pl. 1
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Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology
All Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableOppermann, E. 1892 Nashorn und Tiger. Jugend-Gartenlaube 2: 62-66
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia
Ecology
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableLondon Zoo 1891 Alter eines Nashorns, Rhinoceros bicornis, im Londoner Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 32 (5): 155
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Subject:
Species:
Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
A Diceros bicornis in London died after living 22 years in the zoo.
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
The rhinoceros roams through the forests and jungles on the highest mountains, often descending to the salt swamps and flats skirting the sea for salt water.
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File AvailableNoack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10
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Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Report by Richard B?hm Tracks, loosened earth and dung were found upto the region of Kakoma, especially common on the rivers in Kawende, where paths made by rhinos, elephants and buffalo are common.
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File AvailableDecinthel 1887 Un beau coup . . . manqué (un drame dans la jungle). La Chasse Illustrée, journal des chasseurs et la vie à la campagne 20 (40), 1 October 1887: 316-318, 1 plate
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1886 List of mammals obtained and observed on Mount Kilima-Njaro and its vicinity: pp. 387-394

In: Johnston, H.H. The Kilima-Njaro expedition: a record of scientific exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa, and a general fescription of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro district. London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co: pp. i-xv, 1-572
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
Is not found in the true forest, but only in the bush.
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File AvailableBrauer, F. 1885 Gyrostigma sumatrensis n.g. et sp., die Magenbremse des sumatrensischen Nashorns. Verhandlungen der Zoologischen-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 34: 269-272, pl. 1
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Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology
All Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableD. 1884 Kampf zwischen Elefant und Nashorn. Abendschule: ein illustriertes Familienblatt (Saint Louis) 30 (23), 31 January 1884: 368, plate on p. 361
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Subject:
Species:
Africa
Ecology
Black Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMoura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
Cambodia. The rhinoceros lives in places with marshes, forests.
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File AvailableMoura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Cambodia. Like the elephant, the rhinoceros eats the large plants and the leaves of wild bamboo.
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File AvailableMoura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Cambodia. Like the elephant, the rhinoceros eats the large plants and the leaves of wild bamboo.
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File AvailableFrenzel, O.; Closs, G.A. 1883 El rinoceronte librando a su cachorro de las garras del tigre. El Mundo Illustrado (Barcelona) 8 (92): 756-757, 760
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Subject:
Species:
Asia
Ecology
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMason, F.; Theobald, W. 1882 Burma, its people and productions; or, notes on the fauna, flora and minerals of Tenasserim, Pegu and Burma, vol. I. Geology, mineralogy and zoology, rewritten and enlarged by W. Theobald, 3rd ed. Hertford, Stephen Austin and Sons, vol. 1, pp. i-xxv, 1-560
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
Burma. Though often seen on the uninhabited banks of large rivers, as the Tenasserim, tehy are fond of ranging the mountains.
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File AvailableJentink, F.A.; Hagen, B. 1881 Voorloopige mededeelingen over de fauna van Oost-Sumatra. Aardrijkskundig Weekblad 2 (44-45): 273-288, 289-293
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
These animals are found everywhere on the islands, from the coastal forests to the highest mountains.
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Hamburg Zoo. The diet of the rhinos in the zoo is as follows. The adult Indian rhino eats 50 pounds of hay, the younger two-horned rhino 20 pounds. In addition, all rhinos and elephants receive 75-77 pounds of cooked rice (raw weight 16 3/4 pounds), 4-5 pounds wheat leaves, 4 pounds maize, 6 p...
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Hamburg Zoo. The diet of the rhinos in the zoo is as follows. The adult Indian rhino eats 50 pounds of hay, the younger two-horned rhino 20 pounds. In addition, all rhinos and elephants receive 75-77 pounds of cooked rice (raw weight 16 3/4 pounds), 4-5 pounds wheat leaves, 4 pounds maize, 6 p...
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableSchlagintweit, E. 1880 Indien, in Wort und Bild: Eine Schilderung des Indischen Kaiserreiches. Leipzig, Heinrich Schmidt and Carl Guenther, vol. 1, pp. i-vi, 1-255
Location:
Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
The rhinoceros uses its horn like the hogs use their incisors, and in Nepal they will even attack elephants.
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File AvailableOldfield, 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
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
Maharaja Jang Bahadur was very successful this year; they killed several and wounded a large number of rhinoceros. Generally the elephants are afraid of them.
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File AvailableRosenberg, H. von 1878 Der Malayische Archipel: Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt eahrend eines dreissigjaehrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Leipzig, Gustav Weigel, pp. i-iii, i-xvi, 1-615
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
It is found even at a height of 6000 feet.
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File AvailableBaldwin, 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:
Asia
Ecology - Habitat
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. We usually came across them on the edge of some inland jheel or lake, where the water was surrounded by dense ...
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File AvailableBaldwin, 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
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
If left unmolested they are, usually speaking, harmless, but when wounded, dangerous, especially to a sportsman on foot. They will occasionally, in this condition, like the buffalo, charge an elephant with their eyes closed, and inflict severe wounds. I have never seen this happen, but I rememb...
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File AvailableHeuglin, 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
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
In the dry season it retreats into the mountains, in the region of the bamboos and even higher.
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File AvailableSchmalhausen, J. 1877 Vorläufiger Bericht uber die Resultate mikroskopischer Untersuchungen des Futterreste eines Sibirischen Rhinoceros antiquitatis seu tichorhinus.. Mélanges Biologiques tires du Bulletin de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, St.-Pétersbourg; IX: 661-666
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - Palearctic Asia
Ecology
Fossil
No details available yet
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File AvailableBradley, 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:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Javan Rhino
In 1870, on River Menam, we witnessed a fight between a bull buffalo and a rhinoceros in which, however, neither seemed much hurt.
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File AvailableBradley, 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:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceroses often nearly ruin the villagers by breaking into the rice and maize fields.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1874 Fearful fight with a rhinoceros [elephant at London Zoo]. Reynolds's Newspaper Sunday 29 November 1874
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Subject:
Species:
Captive
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableAnderson, 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
Ecology - Food
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 ...
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File AvailableMacMaster, 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
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
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.
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File AvailableJesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
While at Waliko, finding a great scarcity of birds, I followed up more closely the tracks of the Rhinoceros, passing through very dense jungle that is never penetrated by sun or air, by means of their paths, which are from 2 to 3 feet broad, and formed like galleries in a mine, about four feet hi...
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