 | 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 |
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Asia - South Asia - India - Assam
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| In the area of Kohora Grazing and Vasalimari Bheel in Kaziraiiga it has been possible during the cold weather of 1952-53 to observe some ten or twelve rhino, four of which were recognizable and known by name Boorra Goonda, Kan Katta, Romeo and Juliet. These four and others passed and repassed ea... |
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| Natal Parks Board 1952 4th Annual Report, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1952. Typewritten Report. Pietermaritzburg, NPB, pp. 1-25 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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| Three Ceratotherium simum died 1951-1952 from natural causes and a bull approx. 3 years of age had sustained a broken leg and shoulder whilst fighting in January had to be destroyed. |
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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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| 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. |
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| Uganda Game Department 1940 Uganda: Annual report of the Game Department 1939. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 41: 17-25 |
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| In West Madi in October 1939 a white rhino was found dead as a result of a fight with one of its own kind. There were sixteen horn wounds on the body. |
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| Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 |
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| In fighting bite with the large incisor teeth, use their horn, and finish by trampling an adversary. |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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| I saw the rhino still in the water and managed to get up near him just as he was leaving the pool. This proved to be a fine male with a horn measuring 12 ? inches. He had evidently been fighting and had festering incised wounds on flank and in stomach. |
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| Ditmars, R.L. 1915 An active rhino. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 18 (4): 1256 |
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| The strength of our adult rhinoceros was an unknown quantity until demonstrated by a recent performance of Victoria in one of the yards of the Elephant House. To keep this animal from rubbing her horn against the iron of the outside fence an inner pipe fence was constructed. The latter consists... |
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| Dracopoli, I.N. 1914 Through Jubaland to the Lorian swamp: an adventurous journey of exploration & sport in the unknown African forests & deserts of Jubaland to the unexplored Lorian swamp. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-318 |
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| Suddenly they dashed off, emitting loud snorts. |
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| Anonymous 1909 Rhinoceros attacks elephant from rear. Los Angeles Herald April 11th, 1909: 11 |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| The Indian rhinoceros usually has one pair of upper and two of lower incisors; the outermost pair of' the latter being large, tusk-like, and projecting from the angles of the lower jaw, so as to make formidable weapons of offence. |
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