 | Smithers, R.H.N. 1966 The mammals of Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. London, Collins |
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White Rhino
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| Can gallop faster than a man running. |
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| Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| 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 ... |
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| Skafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Meinertzhagen, R. 1955 The speed and altitude of bird flight (with notes on other animals). Ibis 97 (1): 81-117 |
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African Rhino Species
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| Velocity of African rhinoceros, Africa
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28, 35 speedometer, 2 counts
32-35 speedometer, galloping. Charging a motorcar
27.2 stop-watch. Trotting (chasing a masai) |
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| Eble 1950 Propos de la vitesse du rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Mammalia 14: 178-179 |
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| 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... |
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| Owen, T.R.H. 1950 Notes from Bahr el Ghazal province. Sudan Wildlife and Sport 1 (4): 24-25 |
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| 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. |
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| Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 |
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Black Rhino
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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Indian Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Lane, F.W. 1940 The speed of game birds, fish and mammals. Field 175 (4551), 1940 March 16: 414-416, figs. 1-7 |
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| 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. |
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| Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 |
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| 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... |
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