 | Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceri are usually found in swamps where the reeds and grass are very dense, remaining hidden, often asleep, during the day: at night they come out to feed on the edge of the forest. We usually came across them on the edge of some inland jheel or lake, where the water was surrounded by dense ... |
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| Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 |
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Indian Rhino
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| If left unmolested they are, usually speaking, harmless, but when wounded, dangerous, especially to a sportsman on foot. They will occasionally, in this condition, like the buffalo, charge an elephant with their eyes closed, and inflict severe wounds. I have never seen this happen, but I rememb... |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
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Black Rhino
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| In the dry season it retreats into the mountains, in the region of the bamboos and even higher. |
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| Schmalhausen, J. 1877 Vorläufiger Bericht uber die Resultate mikroskopischer Untersuchungen des Futterreste eines Sibirischen Rhinoceros antiquitatis seu tichorhinus.. Mélanges Biologiques tires du Bulletin de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, St.-Pétersbourg; IX: 661-666 |
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| Bradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Javan Rhino
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| In 1870, on River Menam, we witnessed a fight between a bull buffalo and a rhinoceros in which, however, neither seemed much hurt. |
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| Bradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceroses often nearly ruin the villagers by breaking into the rice and maize fields. |
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| Anonymous 1874 Fearful fight with a rhinoceros [elephant at London Zoo]. Reynolds's Newspaper Sunday 29 November 1874 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Sumatran Rhino
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| [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ... |
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| MacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
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| I have twice while looking for elephant come upon a rhinoceros, perhaps the same animal in both cases, in a large swamp, in the dense forest north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, and not far from the beautiful Bogatha stream. |
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| Jesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
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Black Rhino
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| While at Waliko, finding a great scarcity of birds, I followed up more closely the tracks of the Rhinoceros, passing through very dense jungle that is never penetrated by sun or air, by means of their paths, which are from 2 to 3 feet broad, and formed like galleries in a mine, about four feet hi... |
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