Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour - Towards Man back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2  Karki, S.; Shrestha, M.; Basukala, S.; Maharjan, S.; Banmala, S.; Hona, A.; Thapa, N.; Thapa, B.B. 2023 Evisceration of intestines with diaphragmatic lacerations and gastric perforation secondary to trauma by rhinoceros attack and its management: a case report. Annals of Medicine and Surgery 85 (Feb): 295-298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000214 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Kawata, K. 2014 Injuries by rhinos. International Zoo News 61 (2): 147-149 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour - Towards Man All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Kawata, K. 2014 Letter to the editor: Injuries by rhinos. International Zoo News 61 (3): 219 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour - Towards Man All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Acharya, D. 2008 Rhino hurt women in CNP. Conservation Watch - Nepal 1 (12): 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Dyer, A. 1999 Tricks behind the scenes. Hatari Times International 5: 16-19, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man African Rhino Species Charles Cottar (of Kenya) was later killed by a rhino.   details Dyer, A. 1999 Tricks behind the scenes. Hatari Times International 5: 16-19, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Photo of ca. 1950, Kenya. Two rhinos charged the car. The horn of once pierced the side just above Dyer's leg and bent the steering wheel. Both were killed by a gunbearer in the back.   details Lessee, J. 1998 [Various notes]. Really Rhinos 12 (2) Location: Subject: Species: Captive - South America Behaviour - Towards Man All Rhino Species A rhinoceros in the zoo gored a man to death when he invaded its habitat for unknown reasons. The unidentified victim, aged 55-60, apparently climbed over a wooden barrier and entered the rhino's enclosed area, after closing hours late on Monday. The female white rhino was not normally aggressive.   details Berger, J.; Cunningham, C. 1998 Behavioural ecology in managed reserves: gender-based asymmetries in interspecific dominance in African elephants and rhinos. Animal Conservation 1 (1): 33-38, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Among rhinos, clear gender-related differences existed. Compared to females, males charged elephants more (11 events to one), interacted at closer distances, and were involved in more interactions where outcomes were uncertain (50 to 12). These results suggest that female rhinos are more timid ...   details Buissink, F. 1998 Een wankelende zwaargewicht. Panda 1998 Winter: 6-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Rhinos don't see well, which handicap makes them suspicious and sometimes aggressive. Rhinos have been seen attacking termite hills thinking that it is an elephant.   details Choudhury, A. 1996 The greater one-horned rhino outside protected areas in Assam, India. Pachyderm 22: 7-9, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Around Matmora, in Lakhimpur district. The last rhino of the area fell to poachers in 1985. This animal was bom near Matmora and was reportedly habituated and very tame.   details Choudhury, A. 1996 The greater one-horned rhino outside protected areas in Assam, India. Pachyderm 22: 7-9, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species In March 1992, two people were killed by a rhino in Kamrup District.   details Edwards, J. 1996 London Zoo from old photographs 1852-1914. London, Edwards, pp. 1-244 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Rhinoceros unicornis male Jim, arr. 1864. He was of a ferocious temper and on one occasion succeeded in severely injuring a keeper, whose life was probably only saved by Matthew Scott, who drove Jim off by hitting him in the eye with a whip.   details Morkel, P. 1994 Chemical immobilization of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis): pp. 128-135 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino They are usually solitary and generally hostile when disturbed.   details Baker, M. 1994 Black rhino power. On Track 1994 Summer: 52, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino As soon as the sun was up, we headed back to where we had last seen the Rhino. What sounded like a runaway steam train broke out of the bush 10m on our right, on a collision course with us. Barry fumbled to find the gears and he fumbled again. Allison closed her eves and turned her face away   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 - Towards Man White Rhino They are generally temperamentally quieter and less prone to provocation than black rhinoceros.   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 - Towards Man Black Rhino While they have a reputation for being irascible and bad-tempered, this depends on circumstances and the individual. Normally human scent will make them move off, but their reactions depend on whether they have been hunted or harried, or left in peace, and they do sometimes charge from 50 to 70 ...   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Led by an experienced professional hunter/guide, all six of us crept to within 15 meters of them before one caught our scent and began a charge. Fortunately, our guide was able to turn it by simply running directly at the rhino while waving his arms and yelling at the top of his lungs. Both rhi...   details Mueller, C.C. 1988 Sumatranashorner in Malakka. Zoologische Garten 58 (5/6): 411-413, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino In the interior cages there were 2 adult female Sumatran rhinos, of which one had a young calf of about a week old, born in the zoo on 24 May 1987 according to the keepers. There also was an adult male. All three adults were wild caught, and they were very tame. The mother of the calf had been...   details Meckvichai, C. 1987 On the status of the Sumatran rhino in captivity in Thailand. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 57-58 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Animal in zoo Bangkok. It was very tame.   details Sheldrick, D. 1987 Raising a baby rhino. Pachyderm 8: 17-18 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Rhinos tame quicker and easier than any other animal. Even an adult can be tamed within only a few days.   details Happold, D.C.D. 1987 The mammals of Nigeria. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. i-xvii, 1-402 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The well-known accounts of unpredictable charges by rhinos are, more often than not, a fright reaction to something they cannot see, rather than a premeditated attack.   details Vos, V. de; Braack, H.H. 1980 Castration of a black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis minor. Koedoe 23: 185-187, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino After castration. Subsequently this rhino, however, underwent a change of temperament, which was subtle at first, but at this later stage must be considered quite drastic. He has become quite timid and predictable in his habits and reactions. Safaris of tourist can be taken out to view the ani...   details Henderson, D. 1972 Obongi, the white rhino who fell in love with mankind. Animals 14 (7): 302-303, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino Tame white rhino in Uganda, and succesful return to nature. Obongi's first contacts with man were stormy, her hitherto young and peaceful life being destroyed by a succession of nerve-shattering events. One minute she was resting in the shade of a thorn bush, the next she was being chased by th...   details Banerjee, R. 1972 Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga. Cheetal 15 (1): 48-50, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Most of the wild animals of India, usually run away from danger and conceal themselves in thick cover but the rhino does the opposite. It continues grazing till danger is rather close, and then, instead of retreating and taking over it exposes itself still more, by charging. This peculiar habit...   details Achard, P.L.; MacCulloch, B. 1967 Creation of a zoo in Tanzania - Saanane Island Game Reserve. International Zoo Yearbook 7: 235-240 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Saanane Island, Tanzania. A male of 2 years captured in Tarime District developed symptoms of trypanosomiasis. By the time he was cured of the illness (it is frquently fatal), he was completely tame. This is by no means extraordinary since even mature rhinos become tame in captivity in a surpr...   details Foster, J.B. 1967 The square-lipped rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker)) in Uganda. East African Wildlife Journal 5: 167-171, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino While the black rhino is often aggressive toward man, the square-lipped species is very rarely so and then only when a calf is present.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The white rhino is placid by nature.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The black rhino is one of the most unpredictable animals in Africa. It is a mixture of truculence and timidity, and can be extremely stupid. The black rhino is always liable to charge, or at least rush towards, any unfamiliar object, whatever it may be. It charges with its head held up, loweri...   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1966 The mammals of Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. London, Collins Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino It is abundantly curious, singularly nervous and highly irascible, and, in paroxysms of fury, will tear up the ground or any handy object such as a bush or ant heap when wounded or seriously annoyed.   details Dales, D.H. 1966 Black and white rhinos in the Umfolosi Game Reserve. Redwing, Journal of the S. Andrew's College Natural History Society 1966: 32 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The black rhino however is extremely unpredictable and has a really black temper.   details Bere, R.M. 1966 Wild animals in an African national park. London, Andre Deutsch, pp. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Walking about in black rhino country can be exciting, for one may come upon the animals quite suddenly and it is impossible to anticipate their actions. Once I nearly trod on a rhino, which was lying on the ground. I thought that it was an ant-hill, but was saved in time by noticing a twitching...   details Bovill, E.W. 1966 Missions to the Niger, volume 3: The Bornu Mission 1822-25, part 2. Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, Works Second Series, vol. 129, pp. i-xii, 309-595 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Mission of Denham and Clapperton, 1822-1825, expedition to Mandara, situated 150 miles south of Lake Chad, between Logone River and headwaters of the Yedseram. The sheikh sent elephant tusks and the horns of three other animals [including that of the] kirkadan, a two horned animal, with one long...   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1966 The mammals of Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. London, Collins Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino mild tempered, sluggish, timid and inquisitive.   details Dales, D.H. 1966 Black and white rhinos in the Umfolosi Game Reserve. Redwing, Journal of the S. Andrew's College Natural History Society 1966: 32 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The white rhino under normal conditions is very docile and will lumber away at the clapping of one's hands. The exception to this is when they get confused as they then charge in the direction they are facing. Virtually nothing stops them. A white rhino cow with a calf can also be dangerous.   details Gaerdes, F. 1964 Tierleben in Sudwest Afrika: Leitfaden der Zoologie von Sudwestafrika. Windhoek, SWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, pp. 1-270 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino When the animal senses something unusual, it sneezes and runs off, instead of fleeing, in the direction where the sound came from. In that way he got to know as a very dangerous animal.   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 - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino One of the most controversial subjects concerning the rhino is in relation to their temperament. Some species, particularly those in Africa, are said to be very dangerous, charging unpredictably and with little provocation. They are known to have attacked automobiles and in some cases to have o...   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 - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Both species are very timid and solitary creatures. The renowned bad temper and ferocity of the African species seems to be totally lacking in both the Javan and Sumatran rhinos. There are stories of Sumatran rhinos charging humans, but this has been attributed by most experienced observ- ers t...   details King, R.W. 1962 In pursuit of the white rhinoceros. African Wildlife 16 (2): 123 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino On one occasion a large number of rhino reminiscent of a herd of cows steadily munched their way to the car. Although the herd was accompanied by a calf they showed hardly any interest in us. On the other hand there were times when rhino showed considerable curiosity and looked quite formidable...   details Skafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino It is an ill-tempered animal   details Natal Parks Board 1961 13th Report of the Natal Parks, Game and Fish Preservation Board, for the period 1st April, 1960, to 31st March, 1961. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-35 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Three natives were tossed this year. One, a poacher, died from his injuries. The other two recovered. * In July two rangers and a game guard on a horse patrol had just negotiated a steep and stony path to the head of a cliff, when they were charged by a black rhino. The two rangers being caug...   details Natal Parks Board 1960 12th Annual Report, 1 April 1959 - 31 March 1960. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-39 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino White rhino became more aggressive than usual, probably as a result of increased poaching activities and constant disturbance. Cows with calves were very unpredictable and one party of Wilderness Trailers were ?treed' by a white rhino with a young calf at heel.   details Natal Parks Board 1960 12th Annual Report, 1 April 1959 - 31 March 1960. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-39 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Two native Nagana workers, charged by a black rhino and a buffalo respectively, sustained injuries and required hospital attention.   details Taberer, W.H.M. 1959 Amboseli - unique and wonderful game reserve full of animal personalities. Wild Life, Nairobi 1 (4): 16-19, 26, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino With all this attention Gertie became so tame that she would lie in a dust bath with her offspring and allow several cars at a time to approach within 30 feet and not bother to get up and often just continue to sleep. There have been incidents: when she refuses to move some unkind visitor, wanti...   details Appelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino seen near human habitations   details Field, P.A.G. 1958 The rogue rhino of Loyoro. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 1 (4): 26-28, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The country around Loyoro consists of a number of low rocky hills piled into varied and rather grotesque shapes. The soil is badly eroded and as a result has been invaded by dense thickets of acacia thorn interspersed with sansevieria and other succulents. The human population is concentrated so...   details Poles, W.E. 1956 Animal ways. Oryx 3 (5) August: 246-254, 4 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Akeley, C.; Akeley, M.J.; Roosevelt, T. 1956 Adventures in the African jungle - Rhinoceros. Dodd, Mead & Co. New York: 214-234, 2 plates, 1 figure Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Swanepoel, P.D. 1955 My first encounter with a black rhino. African Wildlife 9 (3): 209-210, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Being a regular visitor to the Kruger National Park, it was with great excitement and anticipation that we set out on our first trip to the Hluhluwe Game Reserve to 'shoot' that prehistoric pachyderm, the rhino, particularly the so-called black variety. But that same afternoon might easily have ...   details Shebbeare, E.O. 1955 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (3): 125-126 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino I remember how Bena, a Bengali tracker, who had once been hoisted by a rhino onto the crupper-ropes of a retreating pad-elephant, used to demonstrate, with his own lower incisors, how the lift had been effected, and the healed scars on his loins fully bore him out.   details Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species Some appear to have a distaste for jungle fire, which they charge and trample.   details Morden, W.; Morden, I. 1954 Our African adventure. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-256 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Rhinos are always ready to charge at anything of which they have caught the scent. ... a touchy disposition.   details Uganda Game Department 1954 Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1952. Oryx 2 (5): 302-307 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino A game ranger moving down a track towards the Aswa River in Acholi in his Landrover, came upon a black rhino which appeared unexpectedly out of the long grass. He reversed slowly and the rhinoceros disappeared. Thinking it had gone he drove on until he came to a culvert that was obviously too w...   details Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceros are known to be aggressive and charge on provocation to the extent of 'treeing' the huntsman and patiently awaiting his descent. They are, however, like other wild animals, very afraid of man, and will, on the slightest danger, retreat into impenetrable haunts.   details Anonymous 1953 Coquette. Zoonooz (San Diego) 26 (3) Mar: 8, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Natural history texts as well as hunters often characterize the rhino as being vicious, antagonistic and perpetually ill-tempered, but not one of these epithets could be applied to Sally. She has the disposition of a pet feline and sometimes behaves disgustingly like one. In her relations with ...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino The two rhino named Romeo and Juliet were twice involved in an attack against humans. Firstly on 7-2-1953 E. R. Dungan was taking cine shots of these two rhino as they were playing, courting and. chasing one another. With him were two companions, one of was the Assistant Conservator of Forests ...   details Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Three incidents with Ceratotherium simum. The first during April when a native woman was gored in the thigh and had to receive hospital treatment. In June, a native male was killed; this accident occurred at dusk and it is not known what he was doing at the time, since the deceased was accompan...   details Natal Parks Board 1952 Extracts from Third Report of the Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board. African Wildlife 6 (2): 185-186 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Provocation to tourists During the Christmas holidays a large party of Durban visitors went into Hluhluwe in two cars, accompanied by Native Game Guard Zeta, who has been employed there for 16 years. On a side track in the Amanzibomvu area the party came upon 9 black rhino and were compelled to...   details Bigalke, R. 1950 Wild life conservation in the Union of South Africa: historical introduction. Fauna and Flora 1: 5-9, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino About Van der Stel in 1685 Governor Simon van der Stel undertook an expedition to Namaqualand in the year 1685. When the expedition was near the Piketberg Mountains, that is about 100 miles from Cape Town, a black rhinoceros charged the Governor's coach. Fortunately Van der Stel was able to ju...   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino As soon as a rhino hears even the slightest noise, it will run away. The animal therefore is shy rather than aggressive. Often, when it smells people in the vicinity, the rhino will run towards the site of danger, what however is not to be seen as an aggressive movement. Sometimes it will actu...   details Uganda Game Department 1950 Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1949. Oryx 1: 89-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino Although normally quiet and inoffensive, they sometimes become aggressive. A game guard on patrol near Laufori in West Madi came on a white rhino cow which had shortly before given birth to a calf. She not unnaturally resented his intrusion and chased him into a river. A tragedy occurred at Ri...   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Intelligence is little developed in the rhinoceros which, in actual fact, is just a brute. He attacks what he sees and doesn't realize the dangers of his attack. So every year, some are killed by the locomotives of the Uganda Railway. The poor eyesight of these enormous beasts is maybe reason ...   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceroses, taken while young, become tame very well and attach themselves to their master to the point of being bothersome (Hartley).   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino One says this species less aggressive that the other, however we noted close to Aba that a small truck had been attacked by one them and that the one which we have killed for the Museum of Paris, a male, attacked us without the least provocation.   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 - Towards Man Indian Rhino The horn is never used for rootling and it is difficult to estimate its purpose as Shebbeare says that the only man he has ever known to be attacked by a rhino showed marks clearly made by the incisors of the lower jaw on his posterior.   details Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The natives, except when hunting, avoided the rhino-inhabited mountains because truculent bulls often charged unwary travellers.   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Approaching the Black Rhino on foot with nothing more formidable than a camera and sketch-book is always an exciting affair; and in bush-country there is a certain amount of nervous strain which is relieved only when the great snorting brute finally decides to crash away through the scrub, yieldi...   details Astley-Maberly, C.T. 1938 With the white rhinoceros in Zululand. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 34: 52-55, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The kindly, good-tempered White Rhinoceros, however, entirely lacks the impetuosity of his smaller but more irritable relative. Standing approximately 6 feet at the shoulder, with an amazing hump on the back of his neck, be moves about with a gentle, ponderous dignity that swiftly puts the peace...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino An encounter with a rhino did take place much later and, as usually happens in such cases, it was quite unexpected. I have just written about 'good fortune' in coming across a rhino, but I can assure the reader that I felt anything but happy when I saw the first rhino approaching. The weather wa...   details Kenya Game Department 1937 Kenya Colony and Protectorate: Game Department, Annual Report for 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 31: 31-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man African Rhino Species The settlers of Nyeri and Ngobit decided, early in the year, that rhino had greatly increased on and in the vicinity of farms and that their numbers must be drastically reduced. The matter was brought into tragic prominence by the death of Mr. H. Carpenter, who, while out riding, was caught and ...   details Kenya Game Department 1937 Kenya Colony and Protectorate: Game Department, Annual Report for 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 31: 31-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino This wholesale killing of rhino will be regretted by game lovers, but one should hesitate before condemning it as unjustifiable. The dwellers in the Nyeri area are just as keen on game and game preservation as any other community, perhaps more so; but they have found, many of them by unpleasant ...   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 - Towards Man Black Rhino Most apparent charges are really made in its endeavors to break through and get away. Those are easy to discriminate between if the rhino can be seen. A steady advance with the ears pricked forward towards one is a most dangerous sign, and one must quickly and quietly give way or face it. A ch...   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 - Towards Man Black Rhino Comparison with buffalo Much has been said about the comparative aggressiveness of buffalo and rhino. Some hold that a rhino is easier turned than a buffalo, and so on. Lone buffalo bulls will often be found, like rhinos, trying to get away and avoid trouble, and their intentions are just as ea...   details Weber, W.; Dekking, G.W.; J.S. 1935 Le Parc National Kruger - un paradis des Fauves. L'Illustration No 4798 (Feb 16): 195-197, 1 map, 11 images Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Uganda Game Department 1934 Uganda protectorate, Game Department, Extracts from Annual report for the year ended 31st December, 1932. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 22: 34-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino It seems almost inevitable that at least one of these grand animals will be shot each year by some person who had overlooked or disbelieves in the mass of accumulated proof of the utter harmlessness of these animals. Residents in West Nile become accustomed to meeting these enormous brutes, but ...   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. Both these animals were savage, and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih rhino was a well-known indivi...   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The White Rhino of my experience does not charge on scent like the Black, but it is nevertheless well to be wary, for now and then the beast will turn on the hunter with as much ferocity as its Black relation.   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 - Towards Man Black Rhino The natives are certainly as much afraid of him as they are of the Elephant, although in the opinion of most hunters he is classed as the least dangerous of all the larger game. The probable reasons for the very different opinions as to the risks of shooting Rhino is that the nature of the beast...   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t...   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In the Baringo district Rhino were both numerous and aggressive, and the tale is told that before the days of the railway one of them charged a line of prisoners laden with the baggage of an official. The unfortunate men, who were chained by the neck, were unable to take flight, and several of t...   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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Attack on train in Kenya The Black Rhino is pig-like both mentally and physically and little or no provocation is required to make it take the offensive. On at least one occasion in the earlier days of the Kenya-Uganda railway it charged an approaching train, meeting it obliquely near the front...   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino But Allah be praised, that day our luck was really incredible. We had been scouring the bush for five days, without the tiniest bit of luck. Then, when least expected, our friend passed at less than a hundred yards from the very ladang we had chosen for our camp. This sounds unbelievable, for ...   details Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Both the specimens killed at Pinjih in 1899 and at Kuala Serukoi in 1924 seem to have been extremely savage and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih beast had been the terror of its valley from long before the British occupation (1874) and it was only large and well armed parties that venture...   details Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The white rhino is more peaceful than the black. While the black does not hesitate to charge, the white rhino does not get to its feet that easily. I remember to have been told by an excellent sportsman who hunted in the Sudan, that he was surprised that when he approached the rhino seated on a...   details William of Sweden, Prince 1925 Wild African Animals I have known (Black rhino encounter in the Tana River area, Kenya). Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., pp. 183-185,187,189,191, 7 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino According to Steinhardt, the Kaoko rhino is less prone to attack than the East African rhino. It would usually be happy just to scare away its enemy. When it loses the smell, it continues to run. Strangely, the Kaoko rhino would attack with raised horns, after it has lowered its head twice bef...   details Barns, T.A. 1923 Ngorongoro, the giant crater; and the gorilla, the giant ape. Journal of the Royal African Society 22 (87): 179-188 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino (After climbing to summit of Ololmoti, the northern crater) My followers and I arrived at the top very much out of breath and pretty well fagged, so it was a very mean advantage that two Rhino took of us on the very summit, by charging us in the rough scrub, shaking us up very badly after the ard...   details Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino They have irritable natures and have a stupid habit if charging down on anything that annoys their sense of smell. In hundreds of cases this has induced their death, for many a man has had to shoot a rhino in self-defence. I have myself had several narrow shaves owing to their sudden attacks.   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 - Towards Man Black Rhino A great deal has been written on the pugnacious nature of the Black Rhino, most hunters saying it will charge without provo- cation. Its small eyes are bound to give the creature bad eyesight, but its hearing is well developed, and I expect they vary individually as much as any other animal. Dug...   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino They seem to be dangerous for people in their wild rage.   details Kerkhoven, A.R.W. 1916 De jachtwet. Tijdschrift Binnenlandsch Bestuur 49: 367-374 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinos can be quite troublesome. I know a subdivision growing rubber in the South Preanger, where a rhino makes an entire division of the plantations inaccessible by attacking the koelies. I have shot a rhino myself which had killed a woman.   details Kerkhoven, A.R.W. 1916 De jachtwet. Tijdschrift Binnenlandsch Bestuur 49: 367-374 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species Rhinos can be quite troublesome. I have shot a rhino myself which had killed a woman.   details Gairdner, K.G. 1915 Notes on the fauna and flora of Ratburi and Petchaburi districts. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 1 (3): 131-156 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino In 1911, a female with young attacked a survey party in the Yang Choom valley and savagely bit a coolie in the arm.   details Gyldenstolpe, N. 1914 Mammals collected, or observed by the Swedish zoological expedition to Siam 1911-1912. Arkiv for Zoologi 8 (23): 1-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino During my stay at Sakerat in eastern Siam, I was told by the Chief of the village that a very large and fierce rhino had been shot some years ago quite close to the village, but after first having killed two of the hunters.   details Flower, S.S. 1914 Report on a zoological mission to India in 1913. Cairo, Government Press (Zoological Service, Publication no 26.), pp. i-viii, 1-100, pls. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino A male sumatrensis, received from the Straits settlements in 1909, and still tame enough to allow his keeper to sit on his back.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino It is a secretive animal which runs away from humans, but when it is cornered or when it has a calf, it will stay put and is often a difficult adversary. Schneider tells about an encounter where the rhinoceros fiercely attacked them without provocation and where they could only escape by running...   details Fischer, A. 1914 Menschen und Tiere in Deutsch-Sudwest. Stuttgart and Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, pp. i-vi, 1-294 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The black rhinoceros was regarded as the most dangerous game, had first place among the five deadly enemies of men, and used to attack the locals without reason. But when the white men came, the rhinoceros charged.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino It is less courageous and therefore less dangerous. His temperament is shown by the encounters told by Dr Hagen. Hagen says that 'it often happens that a rhinoceros, during his walks, finds itself in the middle of a new tobacco plantation and it seems then that he is unhappy with this new garde...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino M?ller tells the following story about a hunt of the rhinoceros, with bad results for one of the members of the nature commission: Mr G. van Raalte, administrator and draughtsman of the Nature Commission together with Dr Macklot was hunting rhinos in the Preanger Regencies near Parang in April 18...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino In Nyasaland and North Eastern Rhodesia, however, where he is more scarce and always found in thick grass or bush, he is really a very sporting animal to shoot. The natives there fear him more than any of the dangerous game, partly because he is really dangerous in their country, and partly beca...   details Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Behaviour - Towards Man African Rhino Species Whilst hunting near Lake Bangweolo I followed one for the greater part of the day, and finally crept up, closely followed by the faithful Matola, within five yards of where he lay, heavily breathing in thick grass. Even then it was so thick that I could not see him properly, and bungled the shot...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2