Reference Base Notes for: Ecology - Habitat back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Ansell, W.F.H. 1960 Mammals of Northern Rhodesia: a revised checklist with keys, notes on distribution, range maps, and summaries of breeding and ecological data. Lusaka, Government Printer, pp. i-xxxi, 1-155, 1-24 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Woodlands and thickets. Sometimes also in more open country. Perhaps never occurred in montane areas.   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Forest   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Swampy ground   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino It was reported as frequenting swampy ground in the Sunderbans as well as dense hill forest up to altitudes of 4000 ft.   details Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino They love frequent mud baths, rolling themselves for hours with lazy contentment in mud wallows as would a common village buffalo. These mud wallows are found on banks of streams in low terrain, and even on mountains heights above 5000 feet.   details Rosevear, D.R. 1953 Checklist and atlas of Nigerian mammals. Lagos, Nigerian Government, pp. 1-131 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Nigeria Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Habitat in Nigeria, mostly Sufan Savannah.   details Rosen, B. von 1953 Games animals of Ethiopia: a short guide for hunters and animal lovers. Addis Ababa, Swedish-Ethiopian Co, pp. 1-93 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino They like a flat, bushy country.   details Fetherstonhaugh, A.H. 1951 Rhinoceroses. Malayan Nature Journal 5: 191-193 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The belief that R. sondaicus is found only in low-lying swampy country is contradicted by S. H. Prater who states that this species has been recorded at heights up to 7,000 feet above sea level. I have received reports of unusually large tracks in Malaya up to 4,000 feet. Similar feeding habits ...   details Fetherstonhaugh, A.H. 1951 Rhinoceroses. Malayan Nature Journal 5: 191-193 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The belief that R. sondaicus is found only in low-lying swampy country is contradicted by S. H. Prater who states that this species has been recorded at heights up to 7,000 feet above sea level. I have received reports of unusually large tracks in Malaya up to 4,000 feet. Similar feeding habits ...   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino In the rainy season the rhino live in the fields, when the pans dry up they return to the rivers.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino At night it walks to drink in the rivers or large pans in the Omuramben. Deep paths lead to the individual drinking places and from there back into the thornbush, where the rhino has many sleeping places. Many paths lead to these resting places, which are often found under a large shadowy tree.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Ecology - Habitat White Rhino Uganda. We met this rhinoceros in the savannas with high plants of the sides of the Nile.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino This animal customarily lives among spiny bushes, but one also finds it in forests and on mountains.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Like them, they have permanent pathways, but these are only well marked close to their den. Their trails are little distinct, except in the difficult or very often frequented places, and one realizes that they go either left or right without worrying about it.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Forest   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Swampy ground   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Altitude   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Frequents forests, and Blanford records that it has been observed at considerable elevations. But in the Sunderbans it frequents swampy ground and E.H. Peacock records a fondness for low lying swampy ground. Sterndale (1884) records one at an altitude of 4,000 feet and describes it as ?more of ...   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino 5,000 feet, in Shwe-U-Daung, Myanmar, 1929 (Ansell 1947, cf. Annual Reprt 1929-30)   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Mainly if not exclusively dense hill forests.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino 6,822 feet, Dawna Range, Myanmar, 1929   details Moreau, R.E. 1944 Mount Kenya: a contribution to the biology and bibliography. Journal of the East African Natural History Society 18: 61-92 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Mount Kenya. At any rate towards the north end of the mountain, where the forest is comparatively dry and open, rhinos frequent its upper edge, ca. 10,500 ft. Raymond Hook has never seen them more than half a mile out of the moorland. Also on the wetter south side D.G.B. Leakey ?can vouch for ...   details Moreau, R.E. 1944 Mount Kenya: a contribution to the biology and bibliography. Journal of the East African Natural History Society 18: 61-92 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino At any rate towards the north end of the mountain, where the forest is comparatively dry and open, rhinos frequent its upper edge, ca. 10,500 ft. Raymond Hook has never seen them more than half a mile out of the moorland. Also on the wetter south side D.G.B. Leakey 'can vouch for rhino occurrin...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The number of old rhino paths near the rivers, however, is quite large. I found these typical gullied paths, leading to the water, along every river I visited. These paths, so deeply worn into the hard river banks, must have been used for many years. They date most probably from a far distant p...   details Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus - Malaysia. It is believed that two or three are still to be found in the swampy lands of southern Perak.   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Ecology - Habitat White Rhino West Africa. Their natural habitation was the soft green, thornless bush country and were often to be met with in parties of three to a dozen and more, browsing in the open like great cattle. While the slaughter was at its height many of the survivors took to heavy country, where this class of ...   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level.   details Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The 'rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a...   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhino had jumped from one side of the narrow path to the other, leaving no footmarks amongst ours in the middle and tunnelled a passage for itself down the mountain side through the thick moss covered bushes.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Found fresh tracks on Mt. Mulu between 6-7000 feet at the summit.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The Two-horned Rhinoceros, like the Lesser One-horned species has a preference for forested hill tracts where it wanders up to considerable elevations. A sufficiency of shade and a good supply of water are essential to its habitat. A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Indian Rhino Though it prefers swamp and grass the Great Indian Rhinoceros is also found in wood jungle up ravines and low hills.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tracks lead off in all directions from these 'wallows'. They present the appearance of large tunnels hollowed through the dense undergrowth. Unlike the elephant, a rhinoceros does not break through the jungle but burrows his way through the dense tangle.   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 - Habitat Sumatran Rhino It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills.   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: 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 - Habitat Black Rhino Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino likes to live in mountainous areas, where it can wander with great speed.   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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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: Asia Ecology - Habitat 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.   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: 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.   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: 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...   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 Ecology - Habitat 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.   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 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.   details Johnston, 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 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Found all over British central Africa except on high plateaus.   details Tjeenk Willink, H.D. 1905 Mammalia voorkomende in Nederlandsch-Indie. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indi 65: 153-345 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros occurs both in the plains and in inaccessible mountains.   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) 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 ...   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 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...   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) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino I have met with tracks of both varieties at considerable elevations, especially in places infrequently visited by men.   details Delme-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 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Broun, W.H. 1905 Heads of Rhinoceros bicornis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905 November 14: 297 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Beccari, 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 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Maud, P. 1904 Exploration in the southern borderland of Abyssinia. Geographical Journal, London 23 (5): 552-579 Location: Subject: Species: 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 ...   details Barnes, 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino On almost the highest point was a quantity of rhinoceros' dung.   details Flower, 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 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Flower, 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 Location: Subject: Species: 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...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa 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.   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 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   details Neumann, 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 Location: 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.   details Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Frequents marshy jungles.   details Henri d'Orleans 1898 De Tonkin aux Indes, Janvier 1895 - Janvier 1896. Paris, Calmann Levy, pp. i, 1-442 Location: Subject: 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.   details Ridley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino It frequents the hill jungles, ascending up to 4000 feet altitude.   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 Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino It has a habit of constantly using the same track.   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 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.   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java 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.   details Noack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Thomas, 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.   details Moura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Cambodia Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Cambodia. The rhinoceros lives in places with marshes, forests.   details Mason, 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.   details Jentink, 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.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3