 | Hoogstraal, H. 1954 Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56 (6): 273-279 |
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| Amblyomma cohaerens D?nitz, 1909 (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 4 males, 1 female from black rhinoceros, Fateo, Victoria Nile, Uganda, C.R.S. Pitman. This is the only record of the buffalo tick attacking a rhinoceros. |
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| 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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Indian Rhino
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| A new-born calf left by mother overnight was found with 6 leeches on it but no blood. |
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 | Anonymous 1953 Angstige dagen. Blijdorp Geluiden, Rotterdam 1 (9): 4, fig. 1 |
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Black Rhino
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| Rotterdam Zoo, Diceros bicornis. Male ?Peter' suddenly very sick, but recovered from haemoglobinury. |
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| Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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| The rhino is host to a special tick, Dermatocentes rhinocerotes, of which males and females have different colours. There is also a tick with coloured legs, Hyalomma aegyptium. there are large numbers of 'draadwormen' in the stomach of a female and also a very large kind of larva of Gastrus. |
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| Kluge, E. 1950 The white rhinoceros of the Umfolozi Game Reserve. African Wildlife 4 (2): 154-159, figs. 1-3 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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White Rhino
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| During certain months of the year, deaths are also reported in the Umfolozi GR. These deaths, amounting to about 5 per annum, mostly result from injuries sustained when fighting. |
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| Ali, S.A. 1950 The Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis Linn) in Assam Province, India. Proceedings and Papers, International Technical Conference on the Protection of Nature 1949: 470-472 |
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Asia - South Asia - India - Assam
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| Anthrax and similar diseases are readily contracted by wild animals from infected vllage cattle with wholesale tragic results. Domestic cattle were undoubtedly responsible for the anthrax epidemic of 1947 which destroyed an ascertained total of fourteen rhinoceros in Kaziranga Sanctuary and prob... |
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| Gee, E.P. 1950 Wild life reserves in India: Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 49 (1): 81-89, pls. 1-2, map 1, table 1 |
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| The number of rhino in Kaziranga was believed to have been about 300 in 1940, when one could go in on insepction elephants and see a dozen quite easily. Nowadays, however, a similar visit would produce only half that number, and a number of rhino are known to have died of anthrax in 1947 - no le... |
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| Anastos, G. 1950 The scutate ticks, or Ixodidae, of Indonesia. Entomologica Americana N.S. 30: 1-144 |
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| Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
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| This rhinoceros is parasitized by Oestrides, of which we found of numerous larvas hung to the partitions of the stomach. |
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| Thomson, J.K.; Priestley, F.W. 1949 Enteritis of a white rhinoceros associated with Pseudomonas pyocyanea infection. Veterinary Record 61 (24): 341 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
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| Pseudomonas pyocynea infection in white rhino. On January 17th, 1949, a white rhinoceros, approximately two months old, found near Tonj in the southern Sudan, was flown to Khartoum, the intention being to rear it for export.
The animal was housed, in isolation, in a mud-built hut, given a plent... |
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