 | Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| Kenya. Acacia shrubs forms its diet. |
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| Southwell, T. 1922 Cestodes in the collection of the Indian Museum A. Mammals (incl Rhinoceros sondaicus). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 16 (2): 127-135 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Javan Rhino
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| 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 |
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White Rhino
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| The White Rhino is found in open grass veld |
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| 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 |
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Black Rhino
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| Unlike the White Rhino, the Black Rhino is usually found in bushy country. |
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| 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 |
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White Rhino
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| The food of this species consists entirely of grass. |
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| 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 |
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White Rhino
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| The food of this species consists entirely of grass. |
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| 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 |
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Black Rhino
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| It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food. |
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| 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 |
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Black Rhino
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| It is smaller than the White Rhino and has the upper lip attenuated in the middle, forming a flexible or prehensile organ, wherewith to facilitate the grasping of the reeds, leaves, plants etc. which form its food. |
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| Wroughton, R.C. 1918 Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, Burma and Ceylon: Report no. 29: Pegu. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 25 (3): 472-481 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Have found absolutely fresh tracks, but have not shot one. Very local. I think it is always a local animal in the most restricted sense. It lives for a week, a month, or considerably longer in an area of, say, three to four square miles, then moves to a considerable distance, returning often a... |
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| Gyldenstolpe, N. 1916 Zoological results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Siam, 1911-1912 & 1914-15, V: Mammals II. Kg Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar 57 (2): 1-59, pls. 1-6 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Sumatran Rhino
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| To hunt rhinoceros on elephant back is considered by the natives as impossible, because the rhino will at once attack the elephant as soon as it get wind of it. Elephants are also said to be very afraid of rhinos and would run away as soon as the rhino is going to attack. |
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