 | 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 it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump |
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| Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 |
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| Met with in pairs or in small companies. |
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| Smith, A.D. 1897 Through unknown African countries: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London and New York, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xvi, 1-471 |
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| The animal lay on the ground about a minute before he died, uttering all the time those ridiculous squeaking sounds. |
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| Goetzen, G.A. Graf von 1895 Durch Afrika von Ost nach West: Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von den Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Kuste bis zur Kongomundung in den Jahren 1893/94. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, pp. i-xii, 1-417 |
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| Some days later, we saw no less than 7 rhinoceroses. One of them went through the chain of our carriers and caused a great panic. |
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| Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 |
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Black Rhino
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| I have never seen more than three together. |
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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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| The rhinoceros lives alone or at most as a pair. |
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| 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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| 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. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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| The rhinoceros always goes alone. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
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| The rhinoceros lives in pairs or in families. |
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| Bradley, 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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| 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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