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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Javan Rhino
In 1869, near Lahaing, between the Thungyen and Menam rivers. As we were crossing a small plain towards evening, three rhinoceroses came in sight. On the River Menam, a solitary rhinoceros was seen. Very shortly afterwards, a small herd of five rhinoceroses came right across our path and recei...
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File AvailableCaraguel, C. 1875 Combat d'un elephant et d'un rhinoceros. La Chasse Illustrée, journal des chasseurs et la vie à la campagne 8 (15), 10 April 1875: 116
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African Rhino Species
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File AvailableAnonymous 1874 Fearful fight with a rhinoceros. Reynolds's Newspaper 29 November 1874: 1
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Indian Rhino
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it.
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1
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Captive - Europe
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Sumatran Rhino
About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeaking voice proceeding from the den containing the Rhinoceros. He was soon made aware of the cause of this small voice; for upon examining the den he found the beast had produced a young one.
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The animal is remarkably quiet, considering that she is chained by her four feet between two trees. During night she becomes very restless, and on several occasions has contrived, by stretching her hind legs to the utmost, to reach a strongly b...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She has a peculiar habit of squirting out her urine to a great distance, s?nding it out behind her nearly twenty feet, a habit which may be the means by which the male is made aware of her presence in the dense recesses of her native forests, w...
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File AvailableMacMaster, 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
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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, but although we must each time have been within a few yards of him as he was ...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1871 Strange ice accident to the rhinoceros. Birmingham Daily Post 3 January 1871: 1
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Captive - Europe
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Indian Rhino
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