 | Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| He is generally unaccompanied, is unsocial and fierce. Sometimes 7 or 8 assemble and visit a coffee or cinchona plantation where they commit serious depredations by eating the tender shoots and uprooting the younger trees. |
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| Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 |
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World
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The animal lives in the deep forests from which emerges in the early morning and before sunset. The rest of the day, especially during the hot parts, it lies in a hidden wallow which it visits regularly. |
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| Anonymous 1890 Cowed by steam (elephant-rhinoceros fight in a menagerie on a Ohio steamer). Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle Saturday 18 January 1890 |
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All Rhino Species
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| Anderson, J. 1889 Report on the mammals, reptiles, and batrachians, chiefly from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 21: 331-350 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Both elephants and rhinoceroses find their way on to the island of Kisseraing. The rhinoceros, I was informed by Mr Leslie, of the Maleewon Police, whose duties frequently took him past Campbell and Forbes Islands, occurred on those islands. Species unknown. He also told me that he had once me... |
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| Noack, T. 1887 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 2: 193-202, pls. 8-10 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Behaviour - Senses
Black Rhino
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| Report by Richard B?hm - Tanzania
The sight is so poor that a tent in the Ugalla-buga was not seen by a rhino who passed nearby on a trail. |
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| Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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| If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood. |
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| Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The rhinoceros always goes alone. |
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| Meyerheim, P. 1881 Ein Rhinoceroskampf im Zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) no.1988 (6 August 1881): 119-120, fig. 1 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Decinthel 1881 Un duel dans l'Afrique australe. La Chasse Illustrée, journal des chasseurs et la vie à la campagne 14 (43), 22 October 1881: 340, 345 |
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Africa - Southern Africa
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Black Rhino
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| Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| The male uses his horn much more than the female in fighting, rubbing against trees &c. and generally manages to break or wear the end off so as to shorten it. |
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