Reference Base Notes for: Distribution - Hunting back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    Overal, N. 2007 Rhino darting. Sebakwe News 2007 Autumn: 4-5, figs. 1-8 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Fenykovi, J. 2006 Sendas incognitas: En busca del rinoceronte blanco. Madrid, Cairel Ediciones: pp. 1-165 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Angola Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Labuschagne, C. 2001 The big five in South Africa. Hatari Times International 9: 6-9, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species Both black and white rhino are doing well in South Africa. For the foreseeable future, however, only white rhino will be available for hunting. With white rhino, the numbers and quotas are increasing yearly with some excellent trophies available. Over the last few years I have taken three that...   details Anonymous 2000 Darting safaris. SA Game and Hunt 6 (5): 19, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species Darting Safaris were created by WBRC to satisfy a need where individual animals have to be immobilized. Photo of a darted white rhino, 'shot' by Eric Skmetta of New Orleans, USA.   details Rowter, P.D. 1999 The hunting instinct: safari chronicles on hunting, game conservation, and management in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, 1990-1998. Long Beach, Safari Press Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Distribution - Hunting White Rhino No details available yet   details Buys, D. 1998 White rhinos on private land in South Africa 1997. Johannesburg, Report to the African Rhino Owners Association, pp. 1-8, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species As to bow hunting, 26 respondents were strongly opposed. Out of 12 who had no moral objection, almost all stated that it should only be executed with a back-up professional hunter.   details Bartels, P. 1998 The Wildlife Breeding Resource Centre. Endangered Wildlife 29: 14-15, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species Somebody shoots a rhino, but not killed, but shot and immobilised with a dart. After the hunt the rhino is given an antidote to the tranquillising dart and sent trotting into the sunset. This is the first time that the concept has been launched as a service to, and fund-raiser for, conservation...   details Adcock, K.; Emslie, R.H. 1994 The role of trophy hunting in white rhino conservation, with special reference to BOP parks: pp. 35-41, fig. 1, tables 1-4 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: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species role of trophy hunting in conservation. has trophy hunting been sustainable? Approximately 820 white rhino have been hunted in South Africa since 1968, when white rhino hunting began in earnest. Table 1 shows that over this time, the numbers of white rhino in SA have increased from 1800 to ove...   details Bist, S.S. 1994 Population history of Great Indian rhinoceros in North Bengal and major factors influencing the same. Zoos Print 9 (3-4): 42-51 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino analyzing records of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, 1871-1905 Buxa region - rhinos killed (injured) 1877 4 1882 1886 1891 1896 4 (2) 1879 1883 1887 1892 3 (1) 1897 1880 1884 5 (1) 1889 1 (2) 1893 5 (1) 1904 (2) 1881 1885 1 18...   details Walker, C.H. 1994 Rhinos in Africa - the present situation.: pp. 1-3 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: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting White Rhino After an 86-year hunting ban, the authorities allowed the species to be placed back onto the South African hunting licence. Since then, more than 300 have been taken by trophy hunters, some of whom are willing to pay upwards of a premium R 130 000 for the best trophy head. There are many people...   details Capstick, P.H. 1994 A man called Lion: The life and times of John Howard Pondoro Taylor. Long Beach, Safari Press, pp. 1-260 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting White Rhino White rhinos, which numbered 91 in Namibia in 1992 (see Table 4), are allowed to be shot on private land, and on average, one a year is hunted by wealthy foreign clients (see Table 5). The government might think of raising revenue by permitting darting safaris for white rhinos on public land, an...   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Distribution - Hunting White Rhino White rhinos, which numbered 91 in Namibia in 1992 (see Table 4), are allowed to be shot on private land, and on average, one a year is hunted by wealthy foreign clients (see Table 5). The government might think of raising revenue by permitting darting safaris for white rhinos on public land, an...   details Cormack, D. 1993 Operation rhino rescue. Wildlife Watch 1 (2): 6-7, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species One such concept is the   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Up to 1973, sports (trophy) hunting was still possible in Tanzania.   details Anonymous 1979 Succesful protest stops Zambian rhino hunting safaris. International Zoo News 26 (7): 26 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino WWF headquarters heard that safari operators in Germany and Holland were offering European hunters the chance to shoot rhino in Zambia. Mr Niels Halbertsma, WWF director in Holland, discovered from Amsterdam's Chassorbis tour operator that trips to shoot   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Hunting Sumatran Rhino I once went Rhinoceros hunting. After a day and a half by outboard motor from Trusan town we left the river and marched inland. The first hill was Bukit Tamunan, a monument to liars. In the old days anyone who told a whopper had a pile of stones erected in his 'honour' and passers by added to ...   details Monks, E. 1977 Now rhino is on the way out in Kenya. Africana 6 (7): 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Records on hunting are incomplete, but as follows. Rhinos hunted Year Licenses issued Rhinos shot 1969 29 17 1970 25 1971 41 1972 34 9 1973 60 23 End   details Spillett, J.J.; Tamang, K.M. 1966 Wild life conservation in Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 556-572, pls. 5-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino The south central part of Nepal was strictly guarded as a shooting reserve for the Ranas. Royal hunts in these areas were renowned for their elaborate preparations and grandeur, as well as for the great number and variety of big game shot. Hundreds of elephants were sometimes used in a single b...   details Grzimek, B. 1965 Kenya and Tanzania continue to kill rhinos. International Zoo News 12 (3): 75-76 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Although protected, Tanzanian Wildlife Development Ltd. started operations and tried to induce big crowds of overseas hunters to come in. Apparently competition with similar institutions in Uganda and Hunting Safaris of Kenya , made them to silent;ly re-   details Grzimek, B. 1965 Kenya and Tanzania continue to kill rhinos. International Zoo News 12 (3): 75-76 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino The Kenya Game Department gave special licenses to shoot 77 rhinos, allowed a further 48 rhinos in controlled areas, and reports a further 25 were killed `in defenbce of life and property'. One of the wealthyhunting clients writes: `Of course the shooting of rhino is not allowed in all areas, th...   details Potter, P.E. 1965 A man of his time: Francis Thompson Colby. Boston, Museum of Science: pp. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   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 Distribution - Hunting Javan Rhino As readers may have read in the newspapers, on 31 January [1934} there was killed a good male badak (Rhinoceros sondaicus) on the southern coast of the regency of Tasikmalaja for the Zoological Museum. A few remarks will be beneficial. In the first place I want to clarify why this animal was ki...   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 Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Karamoja is one of the few districts in Uganda where the black rhinoceros is still common in certain localities. Even so, his present range represents but a fraction of the area he formerly covered as common place-names in the southern counties and Suk, where rhino no longer occur, bear witness. ...   details Trial, G. 1952 Rencontres imprevues et gibiers d'exception. Cahiers de chasse et de nature no. 11 (3e trimestre): 35-44, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Smythies, E.A. 1942 Big game shooting in Nepal (with leaves from the Maharaja's sporting diary). Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-174 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino King George V shot a young rhino in 1911. The prince of Wales shot a rhino calf in 1921.   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 Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species Elephant, rhino and buffalo in this short scrub bush would be easy to meet and beat, but here even a good hunter gives away points to the lion, which may charge him straight or swerve; and its pace is always faster than it appears to be. In the Tsavo country, while after a very big bull elephant...   details Uganda Game Department 1936 Annual Report for 1934. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 28: 53-59 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Thirteen pairs of black rhino horn aggregating 93 3/4 lb indicate that certain licence-holders continue to regard rhino horns from a cash basis. It remains to be seen how the situation is affected when the black rhino can only be hunted under special licence and on payment of a suitable fee.   details Uganda Game Department 1935 Extracts from the Annual report for the year ended 31st December, 1933. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 24: 36-53 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino There is no dount that certain non-European licence-holders regard the one black rhino allowed on the full licence as a means of recovering the whole or at least a part of the cost of the licence by the sale of the horns.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Hunting Asian Rhino Species With .475- and .577-bore rifles I have never bothered to use other than soft-nosed bullets on rhinoceros, and doubt whether solid bullets are at all necessary for the Malayan variety.   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 Distribution - Hunting Javan Rhino We were camping on one of those remote native clearings in the jungle, very primitively tilled, and only occupied at intervals, called ladangs. First rice, then coffee and rubber are cultivated on those dry fields, where planting takes place without much ado between the huge stumps and logs, whi...   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 Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino With my second Rhino we had a lively encounter. In the first glow of dawn we had set out from camp, east of the lake, in pursuit of Giraffe, and soon picked up some fresh tracks that led us over a low hill. From its brow a fine view opened out below us, across a wide plain teeming with herds of...   details Barnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Hunting Javan Rhino The shooting of the Rhinoceros sondaicus in Lower Perak, by Mr. Vernay, reminds me of the occasion on which my brother, H. C. Barnard, and I shot a male of the species on nearly the same spot in 1898. A short account of the incident may be of interest to some readers of 'The Malayan Forester.' ...   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: World Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species The brain is so small and so well protected by the horns that a front shot is almost impossible. It is well to aim low behind the shoulder or in the middle of the neck, but when the beast is facing, and a shot cannot be placed inside the shoulder, an aim to break the upper part of the leg is adv...   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 Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species He is easy to kill with a small bore, with, of course, solid bullets; and the best place to hit him is low through the shoulder. A shot in the centre of his short neck is quite effectual, or if he is standing half turned away, low behind the car will brain him. As a rule he dies quickly; but wh...   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 Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino A point to be remembered with all game which has to be spoored up, is, that a very early start is essential, so the hunter should be away as the sun tips the horizon. This is even of importance when one goes out chance hunting, for early in the morning Antelopes, and game such as Buffaloes will ...   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 Distribution - Hunting White Rhino Many years ago I secured a good White Rhino bull at Lemasi, in the Lado Enclave, a country of thorn scrub interspersed with wide stretches of open grass, upon which the beasts cropped during the dark. One April night the stillness was broken by the hungry grunting of a Lion close to camp, and in...   details Buckley, W. 1930 Big game hunting in Central Africa. London, Cecil Palmer, pp. i-viii, 1-268 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species I have found with rhino that if the wind is right one can go practically right up to them, and also, as with all dangerous game, that the closer one can get to them the better and safer it is, as one can then be more sure of one's shot. I call to mind a rather peculiar instance concerning rhino, ...   details Anthony, W.E. 1928 Horns and antlers: their evolution, occurrence and functions in the Mammalia, part I. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 31 (6): 179-214 Location: Subject: Species: World Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species When a charging rhino must be turned, if possible without killing, the usual resource is to fire a bullet into the thick part of the horn near the base. The full shock of the bullet is delivered upon the head of the rhino and it is dazed and bewildered. The bullet does not penetrate to a vital ...   details Phayre, I. 1928 Hunting big game by train and auto. Current History, New York 28 (5): 773-780 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino I got the surprise of my life. There, facing slightly away from me, and only a hundred yards off, stood a big bull rhinoceros. He was so close that I could see all the creases in his thick hide, the tufts of hair sticking out of his piggy ears, and the whitish marks where he had rubbed himself a...   details Bagshawe, F.J. 1925 The peoples of the Happy Valley (East Africa): the aboriginal races of Kondoa Irangi, part II. Journal of the Royal African Society 24 (94): 117-130 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - (The arrows to shoot game are poisoned). The poison used is an alkaloid obtained from a plant or tree of the genus Strophanthus. - The poison is fatal to all animals, even elephants and rhinoceros succumbing to it if the arrow can ...   details Champion de Crespigny, C. 1925 Forty years of a sportman's life: with two additional chapters covering the period 1910-1924. London, Mills & Boon, pp. 1-310 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Hunting Asian Rhino Species Vernay Expedition. The Governor of Burma, Sir Harry Butler has given special permission to Mr Arthur S. Vernay, who is now collecting for the American Museum in Burma and Siam to take specimens for that institution. If Mr Vernay can get these rhino specimens, he will be lucky.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino Vernay stalked her on foot and shot her through the neck, at a range of about twenty yards, killing her with one bullet. The neck shot is the most deadly for rhino, aim being taken between the deep neck creases, which are such a marked feature of this curious animal, about two-thirds of the way ...   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino Hunt by Prince of Wales in Jan. 1907 - 28 rhinos were bagged, 14 male and 14 female.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino As regards shooting rhino in Nepal the importance of a vital shot has been already commented upon. Selous, in his ' Hunters Wanderings in Africa' in writing about rhino says :-' As with elephants it is very unsatisfactory work following up a wounded rhino as they do not go and lie down but walk ...   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 Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species I find in my Diary for 5th November, 1907, 'Came near to Maboloni Hill. Saw seven rhino grazing near the hill and steered the caravan safely past, leaving four about a hundred yards up wind and three about four hundred yards down wind.' The next day I find 'Met twelve rhino all in o...   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 Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species In 1905 I was looking for elephant in the vicinity of Fort Manning. I had no thought of rhino, but was anxious to shoot the elephant on my new license, as the old one had just expired. I was following an old elephant track across a dambo, or open grassy flat, when I met a fresh spoor crossing a...   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 Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino 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 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 Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species A rhino is generally a very easily killed animal. If you can get him broadside on with a big bore he almost always sits down at once. Facing he is less easy to kill, and if moving, often a very difficult shot indeed.   details Mosse, H.A.E. 1913 My Somali book, a record of two shooting trips. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: pp. 1-314 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Stockton, F.R. 1910 Round about rambles in lands of fact and fancy. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino And now let us try a rhinoceros hunt. This animal is found in the same regions that the hippopotamus inhabits, but he also lives in Asia. He is rather a dangerous animal to hunt. He is a savage fellow when provoked; he has a great horn on his nose, and a skin so thick that it is almost bullet-pro...   details MacQueen, P. 1909 In wildest Africa, the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes. London, G. Bell, pp. i-xiii, 1-402 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Wallace, H.F. 1908 Stalks abroad, being some account of the sport obtained during a two years' tour of the world. London, Longmans, Green and Co, pp. i-xi, 1-269 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Hunter, W.W. 1908 The Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. XII: Einme to Gwalior. New edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Ganges valley Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Olivier, H.D. 1901 On rhinoceros shooting. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (3): 538-539 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species I have read with much interest Captain P. Z. Cox's notes on Somaliland and I know he will excuse me if I venture to criticize his advice to sportsmen to shoot rhinoceroses in the belly. Every good sportsmen will agree that shooting at large 'into the brown' of any beast is a practice much to be ...   details Olivier, H.D. 1901 On rhinoceros shooting. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (3): 538-539 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Perhaps I may be excused if I give a few instances of my small experience with the Rhinos. The first one I ever fired at I had followed for several hours, and it was standing, facing away from me, with its head turned half round towards me, at about 70 yards; I may remark that I was extremely ba...   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino The events of the two days in question were not entirely furnished by the Rhino, but I may as well give the whole of them : - On the 8th March, I had tracked up a pair of lions, and eventually bagged one of them. March 9. Donaldson-Smith and I were up with the lark. D.S. was obliged to return ...   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species As an. item in the list of big game, he sometimes affords sufficient excitement, as he habitually charges when wounded, and not infrequently when unwounded and entirely without provocation; but on the whole he would appear to be much less formidable than the elephant, and more easily brought to ...   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino We found the rhinoceros the most stupid game animal we have encountered, and easily approached if the wind is right.   details Lewis, Lt-Col. 1893 My first and only rhinoceros hunt. The Boy's Own Paper, London 1893 September 16, issue 766: 811 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Willoughby, J. 1887 Present to the Prince of Wales. The County Gentleman: a Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal Saturday, 19 November 1887, issue 1332: 1565 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Sir John Willoughby forwarded last week to Sandringham, as a present to the Prince of Wales, a table measuring nearly ten feet in circumference made by Mr Rowland Ward out of the hide of a rhinoceros killed in the recent Kilimanjaro expedition. The top of the table, which is beautifully polished ...   details Anonymous 1883 The rhinoceros. Young Folks, London Saturday, 24 February 1883, issue 638: 58 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino Maharaja Jang Bahadur was very succesful this year; they killed several and wounded a large number of rhinoceros. Generally the elephants are afraid of them.   details Drummond, W.H. 1875 The chase in Africa. Good Things for the Young of all Ages Saturday 17 July 1875, issue 33: 528 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Armistead, A. 1875 The chase in Africa. Good Things for the Young of all Ages, London 17 July 1875: 528 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Bushell, S.W. 1874 The stone drums of the Chou dynasty. Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society NS 8: 133-179, pls. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Distribution - Hunting Asian Rhino Species Occasionally larger and more dangerous game was pursued, the rhinoceros in the low swamps, the bear and panther in the forests, and even the tiger.   details Hartwig, G.L. 1873 The tropical world: a popular scientific account of the natural history of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in the equatorial regions. London, Longmans Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details MacKenzie, J. 1871 Ten years North of the Orange River: a story of everyday life and work among the South African tribes from 1859 to 1969. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, pp. i-xx, 1-523 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino Zimbabwe, evening of Tuesday 19 August 1863. Proceeding a little farther, I saw a black rhinoceros cow with its calf, the latter of which was baited by the dogs. I came up just in time to see one of my dogs tossed into the air by the enraged mother. Sadly shaken, but with no bones broken, 'Cel...   details Anonymous 1871 Rhinoceros hunting in Java. Bow Bells 14 (354, May 10): 366 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Hunting Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1870 A rhinoceros hunt in the Bogos country. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts 343 (July 23): 478 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Meunier, V. 1870 Adventures on the great hunting grounds of the world. New York, Scribner, pp. i-vii, 1-297 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1867 Rhinoceros hunting. Boys of England, a young gentleman's journal of sport, fun and instruction Saturday, 31 August 1867, issue 41: 238-239 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Natal Newspaper 1867 Expedition of Towers and Chaplin. John Bull Saturday 26 October 1867: 744 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1867 Shooting a rhinoceros. Bow Bells 6 (140, April 3): 224 Location: Subject: Species: World Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1866 A rhinoceros hunt. Bow Bells 4 (91, Apr. 25): 294 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Hunting Asian Rhino Species Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers. The author was for some months stationed at the little ou...   details Stern, H.A. 1862 Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia : together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants. London, Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, pp. i-viii, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1859 The chase in South Africa. The Welcome Guest 1859: 295-299 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Reid, M. 1857 The young yägers or, a narrative of hunting adventures in southern Africa. London, David Bogue, pp. 1-463 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Frost, J. 1855 Wild scenes of a hunter's life, or, The hunting and hunters of all nations, including Cumming's and Gaspard's adventures. Boston, Lee and Shepard Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1853 The wild-buffalo hunt. Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal 1853 June: 237-246 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1853 Rhinoceros hunting in Java. Reynolds's Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art 10 (255, May 28): 277 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Hunting Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Faddy, Captain 1849 Sporting intelligence in Africa. Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle Sunday, 1 November 1849: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Hunting African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pallegoix, J.B. 1839 Relation d'un voyage a Chanthaburi, suivie d'un apercu sur la tribu des Tchongs. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 12: 169-181 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Distribution - Hunting Asian Rhino Species People living in the forest hunt tigers, bears, rhinoceros, buffalo, wild cows and deer.The method to get to the rhinoceros is very curious. Four or five men take solid pieces of bamboo, the point of which is very sharp and has been strengthened in the fire. Armed like this, they go to the plac...   details Anonymous 1838 Destruction of a rhinoceros [Saugor Island]. Caledonian Mercury 20 August 1838: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1834 A rhinoceros hunt. Leigh Hunt's London Journal 6 (May 7): 44-45 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Hunting All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 1834 Abyssinian zoology: rhinoceros hunting. Colonizationist and journal of freedom 1834: 272-273 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Distribution - Hunting Black Rhino No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal