Reference Base Notes for: Ecology - Habitat back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Rosenberg, 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.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: 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 ...   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino In the dry season it retreats into the mountains, in the region of the bamboos and even higher.   details MacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266 Location: Subject: Species: 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.   details Jesse, 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...   details Bickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Sumatra. The rhinoceros lives indifferently anywhere between the sea-shores and the tops of the highest peaks.   details Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino In eastern Abyssinia and also in the Kolla countries of North and West Abyssinia, up to a height of 7000 feet. idem, Dicerorhinus cucullatus, seen by Harris and Roth on the Schoa. Climbs up to 7000 feet high.   details Jagor, F. 1866 Singapore - Malacca - Java: Reiseskizzen. Berlin, Julius Springer, pp. i-vi, 1-252 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino Next day we climbed the Slamat, on which slopes there is a village called Priatin at 4000 ft. The climb would be much more difficult without the tracks of the rhinoceroses, which in easy curves wind up to the summit of the mountain. These animals climb the highest mountains to obtain their fav...   details Kirk, J. 1864 List of Mammalia met with in Zambesia, East Tropical Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 December: 649-660 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Ecology - Habitat Black Rhino Zambesi River. It frequents forest and bush country, avoiding grass plains.   details Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Habitat Indian Rhino Assam. Rhinoceros are to be found in very high grass jungle, near inaccessible miry swamps.   details Junghuhn, F. 1847 Die Battalander auf Sumatra: im Auftrage Sr Excellenz des General-Gouverneurs Hrn P Merkus in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 untersucht und beschrieben Aus dem hollandischen Original ubersetzt vom Verfasser, I Chrographie. Berlin, G. Reimer, pp. i-viii, 1-300 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tracks of elephants are found at 3500 feet height, but those of a small kind of tiger and rhinoceroses still at higher places. The latter have made paths, which in many places form 2 feet deep swamps between the trees.   details Junghuhn, F. 1847 Die Battalander auf Sumatra: im Auftrage Sr Excellenz des General-Gouverneurs Hrn P Merkus in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 untersucht und beschrieben Aus dem hollandischen Original ubersetzt vom Verfasser, I Chrographie. Berlin, G. Reimer, pp. i-viii, 1-300 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tracks of elephants are found at 3500 feet height, but those of a small kind of tiger and rhinoceroses still at higher places. The latter have made paths, which in many places form 2 feet deep swamps between the trees.   details Cantor, T. 1846 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15: 241-279 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino A two-horned rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle.   details Low, J. 1836 History of Tenasserim. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3: 25-54, figs. 2-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tenasserim, Burma, species not clear. The rhinoceros frequents the swampy banks of retired rivulets.   details Nagel, G.H. 1828 Schetsen uit mijne Javaansche portefeuille. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-117 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The paths made by rhinos cross the forest. They push down even the heaviest trees. The noise of the falling trees tells of their arrival from a great distance.   details Reinwardt, C.G.C. 1823 Over de hoogte en verdere natuurlijke gesteldheid van eenige bergen in de Preanger Regentschappen. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 9: 1-37 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Javan Rhino The rhinoceros, which is found everywhere in these elevated regions, ascends with an astonishing swiftness, even to the highest top of the mountains; it is on that account that this animal is so rarely to be found, and that it was frequently pursued in vain.   details Reinwardt, C.G.C. 1823 Over de hoogte en verdere natuurlijke gesteldheid van eenige bergen in de Preanger Regentschappen. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 9: 1-37 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Java, Preanger. The rhinoceros has a habit to push on to the end of the highest mountain, and its paths have often been useful to us in the dense forest. These paths even extended to the top of the Patoeha and across the difficult Goenoeng Goentoer, over the sharp lava along the crater.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3