Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour - Locomotion back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    Neuschulz, N.; Meister, J. 1998 Nashoernern auf der Spur: Leben und uberleben einer stark bedrohten Tierfamilie. Erfurt, Verein der Zooparkfreunde in Erfurt e.V., pp. 1-52 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino When galopping they can reach a speed of 45 km/h.   details Alexander, R.McN.; Pond, C.M. 1992 Locomotion and bone strength of the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum. Journal of Zoology, London 227: 63-69, fig. 1, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino Figure 1 shows an adult Ceratotherium galloping at 6.1 m/s. Other sequences (also of adults) show speeds up to 7.5 m/s. This is slightly above the maximum speed of 7.0 m/s recorded for butfalo (Syncerus cafferr) by Alexander, Langman & Jayes (1977), but well below the 11 m/s which they recorded...   details Alexander, R.McN.; Pond, C.M. 1992 Locomotion and bone strength of the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum. Journal of Zoology, London 227: 63-69, fig. 1, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino Locomotion and bone strength in Ceratotherium simum. The elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamus are the most massive of all living land animals. Owen-Smith (1988) gives mean masses for adult males of 5000 and 4000 kg for the elephants Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximum, respectively; 220...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino When in a hurry they move with a graceful trot, timed from a vehicle as up to 28 km/h, and under stress canter and gallop at up to 40 km/h   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino White rhinoceros walk slowly, their heads held close to the ground, their nostrils in close contact with it to the extent that, in sandy soil, the broad mouth may mark clearly in the spoor. When in a hurry they move with a graceful trot, timed from a.vehicle as up to 28 km/h, and under stress ca...   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino They appear heavy-footed when walking, but are extraordinarily agile when provoked. At a gallop they can cover the ground at speed and can spin around within their own length.   details Shave, J. 1987 Port Lympne rhino and hoofstock report. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 9: 35 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino Further to our last report in Newsletter No.6. 1984, Kingo and Arusha are still the best of friends. With winter approaching we decided to take the rhino off the pasture, to enable us to prepare the paddock for next summer. During the winter months and after a heavy snowfall, Mr. Aspinall chose...   details Happold, D.C.D. 1987 The mammals of Nigeria. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. i-xvii, 1-402 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion All Rhino Species rhinos can run extremely quickly, but their usual gait is a sedate walk as they browse among the shrubs.   details Hickman, G.C. 1979 An inverted tooth in a white rhinoceros. Lammergeyer 27: 46-47, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino A gallop of 40 kph, the speed of the white rhino.   details Nairobi National Park 1976 Animal orphanage. Nairobi, Ophanage, pp. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino If it scents danger it will charge recklessly at a speed of over 20 miles an hour.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1966 The mammals of Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. London, Collins Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino Can gallop faster than a man running.   details Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino The large bulky appearance of the rhinos would give one the impression that rhinos are clumsy animals but this is most certainly not true. Rhinos can run with speed and agility though they lack the endurance of their relatives the horses. They can move over rocky and steep terrain with an ease ...   details Skafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino It is quick as lighting. I have seen it move in and out between trees, roots and other obstacles in the tangled undergrowth with surprising grace and agility. And I have seen it stop, turn around in the fraction of a second, and charge ahead with the speed of an express train.   details Meinertzhagen, R. 1955 The speed and altitude of bird flight (with notes on other animals). Ibis 97 (1): 81-117 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour - Locomotion African Rhino Species Velocity of African rhinoceros, Africa ground speed in miles per hour 28, 35 speedometer, 2 counts 32-35 speedometer, galloping. Charging a motorcar 27.2 stop-watch. Trotting (chasing a masai)   details Eble 1950 Propos de la vitesse du rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Mammalia 14: 178-179 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion All Rhino Species About statement in Babault who said that the speed of a rhino can exceed 50 km/h. Although never observed a rhino himself, this cannot be correct. Most authors agree that the rhino can be caught by people on horseback, and also the Sudanese people hunt the rhino from the horse. The normal spee...   details Owen, T.R.H. 1950 Notes from Bahr el Ghazal province. Sudan Wildlife and Sport 1 (4): 24-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Locomotion African Rhino Species Also have you ever known a white [rhino] gallop? I have only seen them go at a rapid trot. Yet the black rhino which once charged me certainly did so at the gallop, and this pair also, when eventually they spotted us and went deeper into the thorn bush, made off at a clumsy gallop, not a trot.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino In spite of his stoutness, the black rhinoceros is very agile, he turns very quickly and very short, if he wants, and his speed is high and can be over 50 km/hour. It is capable to sustain this for a long time; during an experience, we timed a female for several miles: at one time, she reached 56...   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Indian Rhino He is much faster than an elephant over short distances and moves noticeably faster than an elephant in shallow water. The rhino gallops like a horse and is not restroicted to the fast walk of an elephant as his hindlegs are 'hock' jointed and not similar to those of that animal.   details Lane, F.W. 1940 The speed of game birds, fish and mammals. Field 175 (4551), 1940 March 16: 414-416, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino Col. Marcuswell Maxwell managed once to induce a rhino to chase him in his car. The animal kept up with 28 mph for a quarter of a mile. On another occasion Maxwell paced a female and the speedometer then registered 35 mph.   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Behaviour - Locomotion African Rhino Species I am glad to say that I took no part in this, refusing all big offers made to me from time to time to take charge of one or other of these slaughtering parties. These rhino are not so playful as the black rhino and not so fast. A black rhino can easily outrun the average hunting pony and keep g...   details Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino Watching rhino near a watering-place I found their antics very amusing and entertaining. Two would appear out in the open in the bright moonlight, a cow and a bull, and separate a few yards from each other, standing looking at one another for a few seconds, then the cow would rush off and around...   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Black Rhino For its bulk it is extraordinarily quick on its feet and covers the ground at a great speed.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino Its pace is fair for the bulk of the animal, but no match for a horse.   details Beccari, O. 1904 Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo, travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak: travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. London, Archibald Constable, pp. i-xxiv, 1-424 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino Swiftness is not a necessity, for they have no enemies they need to be afraid of.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion White Rhino 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   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Locomotion Sumatran Rhino 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.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal