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| as a rule they are solitary, or found associating in small parties of two or three individuals, though there may have been a good many in the neighbourhood; Harris, for instance, speaks of seeing eighty in one day. |
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| Ridley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30 |
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| Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily ... |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| in disposition it is morose and solitary with coarse and uncouth manner, great irascibility, unbounded curiosity and singular nervous excitability; it is subject to paroxysms of fury when it tears up the ground in great furrows with its horns, and behaves generally in a most whimsical manner. Mu... |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| when disturbed it makes off in any direction, usually down wind, but after a short way gradually wheels round up wind, its pace being fairly good, better than that of the square-mouthed species. |
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| and their excrement which they scatter about with their horns and never allow to accumulate, is dark coloured and full of twigs and chips. |
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| it is generally solitary, being of a morose and unsociable disposition, though of course occasionally associating in small family parties. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| they drink in the evening, and at dawn, often wallowing at the latter time. |
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| The pace of the rhinoceros is fairly good considering its bulk; its swift trot will easily surpass man's power but it is, of course, no match for a horse |
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| They feed at night, or in the cooler part of the morning and evening, spending the day in sleep as often as not in the open veld under the shade of some solitary tree, but sometimes concealed in thick bush; when thus found asleep they are awakened with great, difficulty and can be approached near... |
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| It has a curious habit of always depositing its excrement at the same place where it accumulates in enormous masses; when these have reached an inconvenient height it sometimes demolishes the mass with its horn, moreover, owing to the nature of the food, the animal can always be identified by th... |
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