 | Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
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Black Rhino
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| As I have said, he travels much farther there and in North Eastern Rhodesia, and one has to follow him for long distances. As often as not one picks up his night's tracks at a water hole. He often goes tremendous distances to and from water, and perhaps his grazing grounds are seven to ten mile... |
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| Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa
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Black Rhino
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| 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. In the latter countries he seems to walk much farther and has to be generally tracked up all day like elephant, instead of being come u... |
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| Drake Brockman, R.E. 1910 The mammals of Somaliland. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvii, 1-201 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
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Black Rhino
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| After defecating, they generally scatter their excrement in all directions, probably with a view of obliterating their spoor. |
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| Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 |
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Indian Rhino
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| They usually sleep by day, and they use the hours of the night and early morning to look for food after taking a mudbath. |
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| Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Mud bath is taken to protect it from bloodsuckers. |
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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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Indian Rhino
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| Morning and evening are the chief feeding-times, the heat of the day being generally passed in slumber. |
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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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Sumatran Rhino
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| In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island.; and it is probable that all the Asiatic representatives of the family will take readily to the water, although in Somaliland the African rhinoceros is found in absolutel... |
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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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Indian Rhino
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| Like all its kindred, the great Indian rhinoceros loves a mud-bath, and when plastered over with the mud of some swamp or pool, looks a more than ordinarily unprepossessing creature. Its favourite haunts are generally in the neighborhood of swamps; and hilly districts are avoided. |
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| Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Quite unexpectedly, the Bahdak raised its head, tried to get the smell, and then came directly running towards me, making grunting noises. Only with great pains I was able to hide behind the roots of a Ficus-tree, as it was difficult to run quickly in the tall grass. The attack of the animal wi... |
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| Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| When we continued our march, we found a path which the animal had taken often, with a large dung heap of the rhino. |
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