 | Anonymous 1871 Extraordinary adventure with a rhinoceros [London Zoo]. The Belfast News-Letter 7 January 1871: 1 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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Black Rhino
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| In the hot and dry season the rhinos wallow in mud. Probably they do this to rid themselves of flies and ticks, maybe at the same time to keep the hide soft. |
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| Brehm, A. 1869 La vie privee des animaux. Le Voleur, Serie Illustré 42 (686), 1869 Dec 24: 807-810 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Jagor, F. 1866 Singapore - Malacca - Java: Reiseskizzen. Berlin, Julius Springer, pp. i-vi, 1-252 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| The rhinoceros is shy and rarely seen. Still there are cases when it has attacked people, possibly when it is ready for mating. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Indian Rhino
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| When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft... |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Indian Rhino
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| They generally live in families of four or five together, and are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
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Indian Rhino
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| They generally live in families of four or five together. - We came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Indian Rhino
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| They are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Though apparently an unwieldy animal, the rhinoceros at the top of its speed would require a good horse to beat it in a short distance. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Far remote from human habitations, it frequents during the day the densest reed covers, and passes the time either in sleep or in wallowing in the swamps, the tracks it leaves behind it being often as large as if elephants had been there. |
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