Reference Base Notes for: Ecology - Food back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (4) 1 2 3 4  Osofsky, S.A.; Rogers, P.S.; Trawford, A. 1995 Facilitation of boma adaptation of an injured subadult male Southern white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum via introduction to an adult male. Pachyderm 20: 41-44, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Food White Rhino Post-capture loss of appetite is potentially a life-threatening problem for free ranging white rhinos put into bomas, especially older bulls, with animals often not feeding for the first seven to ten days (or longer) post-capture (Rogers, 1993). Ideally, bomas should be situated so that anorecti...   details Molur, S.; Sukumar, R.; Seal, U.S.; Walker, S. 1995 Report: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) Workshop, Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Jaldapara, 1993. Coimbatore, CBSG India Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Working Group of P. Lahan, D.K. Ghosh, K.S. Varmah, B.S. Bonal, S.S. Bist. The Indian Rhino with the capacity of extensive lower tract fermentation and with its typical setting of teeth pattern, mouth anatomy and volume of intake, is categorized under 'bulk and roughage feeder'. With aditional ...   details Osofsky, S.A.; Rogers, P.S.; Trawford, A. 1995 Facilitation of boma adaptation of an injured subadult male Southern white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum via introduction to an adult male. Pachyderm 20: 41-44, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Food White Rhino All animals except the subadult bull were eating and drinking fairly well within one week of being placed into the bomas. The cow started eating by day four post-capture, with the calf suckling within 24 hours of release into the boma. The adult bull was eating by day six post-capture. They we...   details Maddock, A.H.; La Cock, G.D.; Burger, M. 1995 Feeding trials on captive black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis minor in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 25 (1): 32-34, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino Food preference of introduced rhino - South Africa. The Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve/Sam Knott Nature Reserve complex (AVKR/SKNR) in the eastern Cape has received translocated black rhinoceroses Diceros bicornis minor (Linnaeus 1758) as part of the national conservation plan for this species (Bro...   details Molur, S.; Sukumar, R.; Seal, U.S.; Walker, S. 1995 Report: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) Workshop, Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Jaldapara, 1993. Coimbatore, CBSG India Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Working Group of P. Lahan, D.K. Ghosh, K.S. Varmah, B.S. Bonal, S.S. Bist. The Indian Rhino with the capacity of extensive lower tract fermentation and with its typical setting of teeth pattern, mouth anatomy and volume of intake, is categorized under 'bulk and roughage feeder'. With aditional ...   details Dierenfeld, E.S. 1995 Sumatran rhino nutrition. Around the Horn 3 (1): 13 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Ten browses consumed by Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia contained less cellulose (14 to 23% of DM), but even higher lignin levels (8 to 24%) than black rhino browses, suggesting that south-east Asian forages may be less digestible than African browses. Total cell wall (NDF) averaged 50%; ADF, 27%. C...   details Maddock, A.H.; La Cock, G.D.; Burger, M. 1995 Feeding trials on captive black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis minor in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 25 (1): 32-34, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino Food preference of introduced rhino - South Africa. The Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve/Sam Knott Nature Reserve complex (AVKR/SKNR) in the eastern Cape has received translocated black rhinoceroses Diceros bicornis minor (Linnaeus 1758) as part of the national conservation plan for this species (Bro...   details Dierenfeld, E.S. 1995 Sumatran rhino nutrition. Around the Horn 3 (1): 13 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Ten browses consumed by Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia contained less cellulose (14 to 23% of DM), but even higher lignin levels (8 to 24%) than black rhino browses, suggesting that south-east Asian forages may be less digestible than African browses. Total cell wall (NDF) averaged 50%; ADF, 27%. C...   details Jnawali, S.R. 1995 Assessment of microhistological techniques for determining diet of greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis): pp. 26-44 In: Jnawali, S.R. Population ecology of greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) with particular emphasis on habitat preference, food ecology and ranging behavior of a reintroduced population in Royal Bardia National Park in lowland Nepal. As (Norway), Agricultural University (Doctor Scientiarum Thesis 1995:4): pp. i-vii, 1-128 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Ecology - Food Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Pienaar, D.J. 1994 Habitat preference of the white rhino in the Kruger National Park: pp. 59-64, figs. 1-2 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Kruger NP. White rhino are selective grazers; no browsing was observed in the KNP or in the Umfolozi Game Reserve. Forbs were also avoided and white rhino even avoided favoured grass patches that contained plenty of forbs. In the Umfolozi Game Reserve Owen-Smith noticed that during the wet mon...   details Pienaar, D.J. 1994 Habitat preference of the white rhino in the Kruger National Park: pp. 59-64, figs. 1-2 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Kruger NP. White rhino are selective grazers; no browsing was observed in the KNP or in the Umfolozi Game Reserve. Forbs were also avoided and white rhino even avoided favoured grass patches that contained plenty of forbs. In the Umfolozi Game Reserve Owen-Smith noticed that during the wet mon...   details Morkel, P. 1994 Chemical immobilization of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis): pp. 128-135 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. Black rhino are browsers.   details Walker, C.H. 1994 Black rhino on private land - the experience of Lapalala Wilderness, South Africa. Pachyderm 18: 44-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino Lapalala, South Africa. The diversity of plants in the Waterberg is considerable and since 1990, an ongoing programme has been in place to identify plants eaten by the rhino. A number of species that are well utilized are corkbush (Mundulea scricea), tamboti (Spirostachys afficana), mountain kar...   details Morkel, P. 1994 Chemical immobilization of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis): pp. 128-135 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. Black rhino are browsers.   details Walker, C.H. 1994 Black rhino on private land - the experience of Lapalala Wilderness, South Africa. Pachyderm 18: 44-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino Lapalala, South Africa. The diversity of plants in the Waterberg is considerable and since 1990, an ongoing programme has been in place to identify plants eaten by the rhino. A number of species that are well utilized are corkbush (Mundulea scricea), tamboti (Spirostachys afficana), mountain kar...   details Oloo, T.W.; Brett, R.; Young, T.P. 1994 Seasonal variation in the feeding ecology of black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis L.) in Laikipia, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 32: 142-157, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Food Black Rhino No details available yet   details Sadler, B. 1993 Experimental diet formulations for black rhinoceros: pp. 1-13 In: Blumer, E.S. et al. The proceedings of the first international workshop on the diseases of black rhinos Diceros bicornis, August 27-29, 1993 at White Oak Conservation Center, Yulee, FL, U.S.A.. Yulee, White Oak Conservation Center: [unpaginated] Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Food Black Rhino No details available yet   details Dierenfeld, E. 1993 Overview of the nutrition of free-ranging and captive black rhinoceros: pp. 1-15 In: Blumer, E.S. et al. The proceedings of the first international workshop on the diseases of black rhinos Diceros bicornis, August 27-29, 1993 at White Oak Conservation Center, Yulee, FL, U.S.A.. Yulee, White Oak Conservation Center: [unpaginated] Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Food Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1992 Rhinos of the world. REF News no. 8: 2-3, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino This forest-dweller uses its prehensile upper lip to browse in a manner similar to the African Black rhino.   details Santiapillai, C. 1992 Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam. Pachyderm 15: 25-27, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Vietnam Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Vietnam. The altitude range of the mountains of southern Vietnam is such that most of the area in Lam Dong province along the Don Nai river is a rich habitat for rhinos. Among the plants eaten by the Javan rhino in Vietnam, and identified from undigested material found in their dung, were Acaci...   details Anonymous 1992 Rhinos of the world. REF News no. 8: 2-3, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino this rhino is predominantly a grazer but can gather tall grass using its prehensile lip, normally tucked out of the way for cropping-short grass.   details Santiapillai, C. 1992 Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam. Species 18: 55-56, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Vietnam Ecology - Food Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1992 Rhinos of the world. REF News no. 8: 2-3, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino this rhino is predominantly a grazer but can gather tall grass using its prehensile lip, normally tucked out of the way for cropping-short grass.   details Santiapillai, C. 1992 Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam. Pachyderm 15: 25-27, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Vietnam Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Vietnam. The altitude range of the mountains of southern Vietnam is such that most of the area in Lam Dong province along the Don Nai river is a rich habitat for rhinos. Among the plants eaten by the Javan rhino in Vietnam, and identified from undigested material found in their dung, were Acaci...   details Anonymous 1992 Rhinos of the world. REF News no. 8: 2-3, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino This forest-dweller uses its prehensile upper lip to browse in a manner similar to the African Black rhino.   details Santiapillai, C. 1992 Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam. Species 18: 55-56, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Vietnam Ecology - Food Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Waweru, F. 1991 Who gets the food?. Pachyderm 14: 29-31, figs. 1-2, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Food Black Rhino Survey in Ol Jogi, Kenya. Rhinos was observed eating from 26 species with Acacia ethaica the most important: Acacia ethaica 36.6 % Acacia nilotica 10.5 Acacia drepanolobium 9.9 Grewia sp. 8.8 Acacia mellifera 8.6 Rhus natalensis 4.9 Co...   details Waweru, F. 1991 Who gets the food?. Pachyderm 14: 29-31, figs. 1-2, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Ecology - Food Black Rhino Survey in Ol Jogi, Kenya. Rhinos was observed eating from 26 species with Acacia ethaica the most important: Acacia ethaica 36.6 % Acacia nilotica 10.5 Acacia drepanolobium 9.9 Grewia sp. 8.8 Acacia mellifera 8.6 Rhus natalensis 4.9 Co...   details Pratiknyo, Hartoyo 1991 The diet of the Javan rhino. Voice of Nature no. 93: 12-13, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Simpson, D. 1991 Prescription browse for rhinos. Zoonooz (San Diego) 64 (5) May: 26-27, 3 images Location: Subject: Species: Captive Ecology - Food All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. In both Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Acacia spp or their close relatives comprised at least half of the 10 most preferred species, and as they grew in size they became less and less preferred (Emslie & Adcock, 1990b). The most preferred species were A. gerrardii, A. senegal and A. borlea...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino White rhinoceros are grazers with a preference for feeding on short grass, which they are capable of cropping to within 25-60 mm of the ground (Owen-Smith, 1988). Lacking incisor teeth, the movable and extremely sensitive upper lip is extended over a grass clump, pressing the grass against the h...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino They have a simple stomach, and digestion of herbage takes place mainly in the voluminous sacculated caecum where most fermentation takes place (Clemens & Maloiy, 1982). They browse, manoeuvering food into their mouths with the aid of the prehensile upper lip, biting shoots off with the premolar...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food White Rhino White rhinoceros are grazers with a preference for feeding on short grass, which they are capable of cropping to within 25-60 mm of the ground (Owen-Smith, 1988). Lacking incisor teeth, the movable and extremely sensitive upper lip is extended over a grass clump, pressing the grass against the h...   details Reilly, T. 1990 Black rhino return to Swaziland. REF Journal 3: 20-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland Ecology - Food Black Rhino Diceros bicornis Swaziland. On the rhino's arrival, we experimented with different browse offerings and among the favourite foods were the fruit of the sausage tree Kigelia africana, various combretum species and Securinega virosa (white berry bush). On release, Euphorbia ingens found to be a sp...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food Black Rhino South Africa. In both Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Acacia spp or their close relatives comprised at least half of the 10 most preferred species, and as they grew in size they became less and less preferred (Emslie & Adcock, 1990b). The most preferred species were A. gerrardii, A. senegal and A. borlea...   details Reilly, T. 1990 Black rhino return to Swaziland. REF Journal 3: 20-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Swaziland Ecology - Food Black Rhino Diceros bicornis Swaziland. On the rhino's arrival, we experimented with different browse offerings and among the favourite foods were the fruit of the sausage tree Kigelia africana, various combretum species and Securinega virosa (white berry bush). On release, Euphorbia ingens found to be a sp...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino They have a simple stomach, and digestion of herbage takes place mainly in the voluminous sacculated caecum where most fermentation takes place (Clemens & Maloiy, 1982). They browse, manoeuvering food into their mouths with the aid of the prehensile upper lip, biting shoots off with the premolar...   details Dutta, G.C.; Bhattacharyya 1989 Some observations on daily habitual activity of one horned rhinoceros. Zoos Print 4 (11): 19, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Kaziranga. They are fond of Saccurnum sp. of grasses.   details Dutta, G.C.; Bhattacharyya 1989 Some observations on daily habitual activity of one horned rhinoceros. Zoos Print 4 (11): 19, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Kaziranga. They are fond of Saccurnum sp. of grasses.   details Zainuddin, Zainal Zahari; Hassan, M. 1989 Feed intake and digestibility of Ficus variegate in a captive Sumatran Rhinoceros at Zoo Melaka. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 8: 112-116 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Hall-Martin, A.; Walker, C.H.; Bothma, J. du P. 1988 Kaokoveld: the last wilderness. Johannesburg, Southern Book Publishers, pp. i-xii, 1-145 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Food Black Rhino Desert rhinos in Namibia. That these rhino can survive in areas with less than 100 mm mean annual rainfall is amazing. Normally rhino drink every night, yet in the Kaokoveld, because they must move great distances in search of food, they may drink only every third or even fourth night. They ut...   details Ghebremeskel, K.; Williams, G.; Lewis, J.C.M.; Du Toit, R. 1988 Serum alpha-tocopherol, all-trans retinol, total lipids and cholesterol in the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 91A: 343-345, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino The alpha-tocopherol values of the wild rhinos were significantly greater (P <0.001) than those of the captive species. Brysh and Anderson (1986) were unable to detect alpha-tocopherol in serum of captive black rhinoceroses. The mean alpha-tocopherol / total lipid ratio of the free-ranging spec...   details Hall-Martin, A.; Walker, C.H.; Bothma, J. du P. 1988 Kaokoveld: the last wilderness. Johannesburg, Southern Book Publishers, pp. i-xii, 1-145 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Food Black Rhino Desert rhinos in Namibia. That these rhino can survive in areas with less than 100 mm mean annual rainfall is amazing. Normally rhino drink every night, yet in the Kaokoveld, because they must move great distances in search of food, they may drink only every third or even fourth night. They ut...   details Ghebremeskel, K.; Williams, G.; Lewis, J.C.M.; Du Toit, R. 1988 Serum alpha-tocopherol, all-trans retinol, total lipids and cholesterol in the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 91A: 343-345, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino The alpha-tocopherol values of the wild rhinos were significantly greater (P <0.001) than those of the captive species. Brysh and Anderson (1986) were unable to detect alpha-tocopherol in serum of captive black rhinoceroses. The mean alpha-tocopherol / total lipid ratio of the free-ranging spec...   details Cranbrook, Earl of 1987 Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia. Singapore, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. i-vii, 1-95 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Both rhinos are browsers, feeding on a mix of foliage and fruit, particularly of plants associated with disturbed forest or secondary vegetation, like Macaranga sp., Mallotus sp., Artocarpus sp. and figs.   details Khan, M. 1987 Country report - Malaysia: Distribution and population of the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in Peninsular Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 75-82, fig. 4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino It feeds on tree saplings, climbers and other forest plants. In Peninsular Malaysia, three hundred species of plants have been identified as food items for the rhino.   details Furley, C.W. 1987 The death of Subur. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 9: 43, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Port Lympne Zoo. We had trouble persuading her to eat properly during the weeks that followed. She consumed only a few twigs, lucerne hay and fruit each day, though Torgamba had settled in well on the same diet after his arrival. After five weeks her appetite suddenly increased, and she began ...   details Atmawidjaja, R. 1987 Country report - Indonesia: Rhino management in Indonesia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 70-74 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon, Java. Diet includes an overabundance of leaves. It seems that there have been very significant changes in the composition of forest trees in its habitat in Ujung Kulon, especially in its preferred food plants.   details Khan, M. 1987 Country report - Malaysia: Distribution and population of the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in Peninsular Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 75-82, fig. 4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino It feeds on tree saplings, climbers and other forest plants. In Peninsular Malaysia, three hundred species of plants have been identified as food items for the rhino.   details Furley, C.W. 1987 The death of Subur. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 9: 43, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Port Lympne Zoo. We had trouble persuading her to eat properly during the weeks that followed. She consumed only a few twigs, lucerne hay and fruit each day, though Torgamba had settled in well on the same diet after his arrival. After five weeks her appetite suddenly increased, and she began ...   details Meckvichai, C. 1987 On the status of the Sumatran rhino in captivity in Thailand. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 57-58 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Zoo Bangkok 1986. The food given to the animal was different to what it used to get in Malaysia. It was pointed out the difficulties in obtaining wild plants in such an urban city as Bangkok, far from forests. Therefore, as an alternative, the animal was given beans, bananas, sweet potatoes a...   details Meckvichai, C. 1987 On the status of the Sumatran rhino in captivity in Thailand. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 57-58 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Zoo Bangkok 1986. The food given to the animal was different to what it used to get in Malaysia. It was pointed out the difficulties in obtaining wild plants in such an urban city as Bangkok, far from forests. Therefore, as an alternative, the animal was given beans, bananas, sweet potatoes a...   details Cranbrook, Earl of 1987 Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia. Singapore, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. i-vii, 1-95 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Both rhinos are browsers, feeding on a mix of foliage and fruit, particularly of plants associated with disturbed forest or secondary vegetation, like Macaranga sp., Mallotus sp., Artocarpus sp. and figs.   details Atmawidjaja, R. 1987 Country report - Indonesia: Rhino management in Indonesia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 70-74 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon, Java. Diet includes an overabundance of leaves. It seems that there have been very significant changes in the composition of forest trees in its habitat in Ujung Kulon, especially in its preferred food plants.   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometres for several weeks, as they browse on trees and shrubs, taking leaves, twigs, and any fruit in season. Records of their diet include over a hundred plant species from over forty families, though grasses, except for...   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon, Java. The rhino feed primarily on the shoots of a variety of young trees. To reach their forage, they frequently walk over the saplings, forcing them down between their front legs. One observer saw them knee-deep in the sea and believed they ate drifting mangroves.   details Emslie, R.H. 1985 Resource partitioning between the five major grazing ungulates in the Umfolozi Game Rserve, Natal. South African Journal of Science 81: 698-699 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Umfolozi, South Africa - resource partitioning. The degrees of dietary separation between white rhinoceros, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest and impala were examined in the 1983/84 wet season in an attempt to shed some light on how these species coexist. Feeding patches were defined (using a 0.25 m? ...   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometres for several weeks, as they browse on trees and shrubs, taking leaves, twigs, and any fruit in season. Records of their diet include over a hundred plant species from over forty families, though grasses, except for...   details Emslie, R.H. 1985 Resource partitioning between the five major grazing ungulates in the Umfolozi Game Rserve, Natal. South African Journal of Science 81: 698-699 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Umfolozi, South Africa - resource partitioning. The degrees of dietary separation between white rhinoceros, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest and impala were examined in the 1983/84 wet season in an attempt to shed some light on how these species coexist. Feeding patches were defined (using a 0.25 m? ...   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon, Java. The rhino feed primarily on the shoots of a variety of young trees. To reach their forage, they frequently walk over the saplings, forcing them down between their front legs. One observer saw them knee-deep in the sea and believed they ate drifting mangroves.   details Loutit, B.D. 1985 The rhinoceros' favourites. Veld & Flora June 1985: 53-55 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Ecology - Food Black Rhino No details available yet   details Jachman, H. 1984 Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis). Nyala 10 (2): 77-90, figs. 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi Ecology - Food Black Rhino Malawi. During the latter part of the dry season, rhino obtained some of their water ration by eating the tops of young highly poisonous Euphorbia ingens trees. This was frequently observed in the Nyantoko area.   details Jachman, H. 1984 Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis). Nyala 10 (2): 77-90, figs. 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi Ecology - Food Black Rhino Malawi. During the latter part of the dry season, rhino obtained some of their water ration by eating the tops of young highly poisonous Euphorbia ingens trees. This was frequently observed in the Nyantoko area.   details Tajuddin Abdullah, M. 1982 Sumatran rhinoceros in Endau-Rompin and future. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 1: 19-21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Rhinos are selective in their feeding habit. They often eat plants like Prunus sp., Ficus sp., Diospyros sp., Lasianthus sp., Macaranga sp. Fruits of cultivated and wild mangifera (macang) were also eaten. During the fruiting season in March 1979, a rhino from the Kepoh area travell...   details World Wildlife Fund 1982 Mystery of dead Javan rhinos remains. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 40 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Drinking sea water. Rhinos occasionally drink sea water to obtain salt.   details Tajuddin Abdullah, M. 1982 Sumatran rhinoceros in Endau-Rompin and future. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 1: 19-21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Rhinos are selective in their feeding habit. They often eat plants like Prunus sp., Ficus sp., Diospyros sp., Lasianthus sp., Macaranga sp. Fruits of cultivated and wild mangifera (macang) were also eaten. During the fruiting season in March 1979, a rhino from the Kepoh area travell...   details World Wildlife Fund 1982 Mystery of dead Javan rhinos remains. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 40 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon. The team confirmed that the diet of rhinos seems to have changed in recent years. In 1967-70 we found that rhinos were eating mostly saplings and small trees, but a study in 1979-80 showed that many vine species, pandanus leaves and even a mangrove tree were important parts of the ...   details World Wildlife Fund 1982 Mystery of dead Javan rhinos remains. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 40 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Drinking sea water. Rhinos occasionally drink sea water to obtain salt.   details World Wildlife Fund 1982 Mystery of dead Javan rhinos remains. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 40 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Ujung Kulon. The team confirmed that the diet of rhinos seems to have changed in recent years. In 1967-70 we found that rhinos were eating mostly saplings and small trees, but a study in 1979-80 showed that many vine species, pandanus leaves and even a mangrove tree were important parts of the ...   details Borner, M. 1981 Black rhino disaster in Tanzania. Oryx 16 (1): 59-66, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Ecology - Food Black Rhino TanzaniaThe Moru area seems to be suitable for rhinos throughout the year. Two of their main food plants, Indigofera basiflora and Trifolium masaieme, are abundant there. Goddard found that in the Crater in the wet season 52 percentof their total food intake was Indigofera; in the dry season 54...   details Borner, M. 1981 Black rhino disaster in Tanzania. Oryx 16 (1): 59-66, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Ecology - Food Black Rhino TanzaniaThe Moru area seems to be suitable for rhinos throughout the year. Two of their main food plants, Indigofera basiflora and Trifolium masaieme, are abundant there. Goddard found that in the Crater in the wet season 52 percentof their total food intake was Indigofera; in the dry season 54...   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Its food consists chiefly of grass.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather and rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs and shoots, and are very partial to fallen fruit, wild mangoes, citrous fruits, and figs.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather and rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs and shoots, and are very partial to fallen fruit, wild mangoes, citrous fruits, and figs.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Its food consists chiefly of grass.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Its low-crowned grinding teeth indicate that it is a browser, indulging less in grazing than the Great Indian Onehorred Rhinoceros, whose armoury of high-crowned grinding teeth are peculiarly adapted to the mastication of grass.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Its low-crowned grinding teeth indicate that it is a browser, indulging less in grazing than the Great Indian Onehorred Rhinoceros, whose armoury of high-crowned grinding teeth are peculiarly adapted to the mastication of grass.   details Veevers-Carter, W. 1979 Land mammals of Indonesia. Jakarta, PT Intermasa Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Unlike the African rhinos, the Javan rhino is a forest dweller, eating bushes, leaves, young shoots and also several thorny, stinging or burning plants which are harmful to man.   details Veevers-Carter, W. 1979 Land mammals of Indonesia. Jakarta, PT Intermasa Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Javan Rhino Unlike the African rhinos, the Javan rhino is a forest dweller, eating bushes, leaves, young shoots and also several thorny, stinging or burning plants which are harmful to man.   details Ukraintseva, V. V. 1979 Vegetation of warm late Pleistocene intervals and the extinction of some large herbivorous mammals. Botanicheskiy zhurnal 3: 318-330 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - Palearctic Asia Ecology - Food Fossil No details available yet   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves.   details Bigalke, R.C. 1978 Mammals: pp. 981-1048 In: Werger, M.J.A. Biogeography and ecology of Southern Africa. Amsterdam, Junk (Monographia Biologicae, vol. 31): vol. 2, pp. 663-1439 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino The black rhinoceros feeds on a wide spectrum of plants, although conventionally considered a browser. Trees and shrubs are indeed probably the most important bulk sources of food in most regions. In northern South West Africa Joubert & Eloff (1971) found that rhino took three species of Acacia...   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves.   details Bigalke, R.C. 1978 Mammals: pp. 981-1048 In: Werger, M.J.A. Biogeography and ecology of Southern Africa. Amsterdam, Junk (Monographia Biologicae, vol. 31): vol. 2, pp. 663-1439 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Black Rhino The black rhinoceros feeds on a wide spectrum of plants, although conventionally considered a browser. Trees and shrubs are indeed probably the most important bulk sources of food in most regions. In northern South West Africa Joubert & Eloff (1971) found that rhino took three species of Acacia...   details Wilson, V.J. 1975 Mammals of the Wankie National Park, Rhodesia. Salisbury, National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Museum memoir no.5, pp. i-iii, 1-147 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology - Food White Rhino Wankie NP, Zimbabwe. In the Linkwasha vlei the rhino was recorded feeding on Cynodon dactylon, Aristida sp., Eragrostis pallens, Heteropogon contortus and Panicum maximum. Also records of feeding on Echinochloa stagnina, Panicum repens, Urochloa rhodesiensis and Setaria anceps.   details Wilson, V.J. 1975 Mammals of the Wankie National Park, Rhodesia. Salisbury, National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Museum memoir no.5, pp. i-iii, 1-147 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology - Food White Rhino Wankie NP, Zimbabwe. In the Linkwasha vlei the rhino was recorded feeding on Cynodon dactylon, Aristida sp., Eragrostis pallens, Heteropogon contortus and Panicum maximum. Also records of feeding on Echinochloa stagnina, Panicum repens, Urochloa rhodesiensis and Setaria anceps.   details Brahmachary, R.L.; Rakshit, B.; Mallik, B. 1974 Further attempts to determine the food habits of the Indian rhinoceros at Kaziranga. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 71 (2): 295-299 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Kaziranga, Assam. In an earlier communication (Brahmachary et al. 1971) the attempt to determine the food habits of the Rhino in Jaldapara, was described. It was c oncluded that observing the microscopic sections of the vegetal remains in the dung was a good technique, especially for Jaldapara ...   details Brahmachary, R.L.; Rakshit, B.; Mallik, B. 1974 Further attempts to determine the food habits of the Indian rhinoceros at Kaziranga. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 71 (2): 295-299 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Kaziranga, Assam. In an earlier communication (Brahmachary et al. 1971) the attempt to determine the food habits of the Rhino in Jaldapara, was described. It was c oncluded that observing the microscopic sections of the vegetal remains in the dung was a good technique, especially for Jaldapara ...   details Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees.   details Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees.   details Kakati, B.N.; Rajkonwar, C.J. 1972 Some observations on the reproductive behaviour of Rhinoceros unicornis. Indian Forester 98: 357-358, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Assam. The natural food consists of common indigenous grasses known in assam as Nal, Dal, delicate shoots of canes, paddy crop, pulses etc.   details Kakati, B.N.; Rajkonwar, C.J. 1972 Some observations on the reproductive behaviour of Rhinoceros unicornis. Indian Forester 98: 357-358, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Assam. The natural food consists of common indigenous grasses known in assam as Nal, Dal, delicate shoots of canes, paddy crop, pulses etc.   details Jarman, P.J. 1971 Diets of large mammals in the woodlands around Lake Kariba, Rhodesia. Oecologia 8: 157-178, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology - Food Black Rhino Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. the 242 rhinoceros feeding records that could be assigned to vegetation types are shown in Table 5. Significant differences could not be found between diets in each vegetation type. Indeed, there is a considerable similarity between the frequency of utlisation of many spe...   details Jarman, P.J. 1971 Diets of large mammals in the woodlands around Lake Kariba, Rhodesia. Oecologia 8: 157-178, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology - Food Black Rhino Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. the 242 rhinoceros feeding records that could be assigned to vegetation types are shown in Table 5. Significant differences could not be found between diets in each vegetation type. Indeed, there is a considerable similarity between the frequency of utlisation of many spe...   details Schuette, G.W. 1970 Unusual meal. Lammergeyer 11: 81-82 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Ndumu GR, South Africa. Close to Lake Banzi, where a sausage tree Kigelia pinnata overhung the road, a rhino stood in the track chewing one of the large, heavu fruits lying on the ground. When disturbed the animal walked off, leaving about half of the 'sausage' uneaten. Later the remainder had...   details Brahmachary, R.L.; Mallik, B.; Rakshit, B. 1970 An attempt to determine the food habits of the Indian rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 67 (3): 558-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Jaldapara, Bengal. The great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis has been noted to feed chiefly on grass but no exact record is available. It was therefore attempted to actually observe the grass species nibbled by rhino at Jaldapara National Park, North Bengal and to identify th...   details Schuette, G.W. 1970 Unusual meal. Lammergeyer 11: 81-82 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Ecology - Food White Rhino Ndumu GR, South Africa. Close to Lake Banzi, where a sausage tree Kigelia pinnata overhung the road, a rhino stood in the track chewing one of the large, heavu fruits lying on the ground. When disturbed the animal walked off, leaving about half of the 'sausage' uneaten. Later the remainder had...   details Brahmachary, R.L.; Mallik, B.; Rakshit, B. 1970 An attempt to determine the food habits of the Indian rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 67 (3): 558-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Food Indian Rhino Jaldapara, Bengal. The great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis has been noted to feed chiefly on grass but no exact record is available. It was therefore attempted to actually observe the grass species nibbled by rhino at Jaldapara National Park, North Bengal and to identify th...   details Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino The natural diet consists of leaves and shoots of a wide variety of trees and shrubs, many characteristic of fringing forest or secondary growth. Small trees are pushed over and broken up by trampling before the foliage is eaten. The captive female at Copenhagen Zoo is fed on lucerne hay, supple...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (4) 1 2 3 4