 | Anonymous 1848 The fight between the elephant and rhinoceros. Liberator 1848 August 11: 128 |
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| Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 |
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Asia - South Asia - India - Assam
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Indian Rhino
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| Assam. Rhinoceros are to be found in very high grass jungle, near inaccessible miry swamps. |
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| Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 |
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Indian Rhino
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| If the rhinoceros succeeds in overtaking the elephant, he bites large pieces of flesh from the elephant's sides or legs, and with the horn on the nose not infrequently inflicts fearful wounds. |
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| Junghuhn, F. 1847 Die Battalander auf Sumatra: im Auftrage Sr Excellenz des General-Gouverneurs Hrn P Merkus in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 untersucht und beschrieben Aus dem hollandischen Original ubersetzt vom Verfasser, I Chrographie. Berlin, G. Reimer, pp. i-viii, 1-300 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Tracks of elephants are found at 3500 feet height, but those of a small kind of tiger and rhinoceroses still at higher places. The latter have made paths, which in many places form 2 feet deep swamps between the trees. |
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| Junghuhn, F. 1847 Die Battalander auf Sumatra: im Auftrage Sr Excellenz des General-Gouverneurs Hrn P Merkus in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 untersucht und beschrieben Aus dem hollandischen Original ubersetzt vom Verfasser, I Chrographie. Berlin, G. Reimer, pp. i-viii, 1-300 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Tracks of elephants are found at 3500 feet height, but those of a small kind of tiger and rhinoceroses still at higher places. The latter have made paths, which in many places form 2 feet deep swamps between the trees. |
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| Cantor, T. 1846 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15: 241-279 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| A two-horned rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle. |
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| Darwin, C. 1839 Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, RN from 1832 to 1836. London, Henry Colburn, pp. i-xiv, 1-615, 1-16 |
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Black Rhino
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| By the kinds ness of Dr Andrew Smith, - he informed me that in lat. 24? in one day's march with the bullock-waggons, he saw, without wandering to any great distance on either side, between 100 and 150 rhinoceroses, which belonged to three species [bicornis, simum, keitloa] |
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| Gelpke, J.H.F.S. 1838 Schets van het eiland Nousakambang-an. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1 (2): 54-70 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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| Island Nousakambang-an, off Java's south coast. Rhinoceroses have settled on the island, but if we are to believe the story of the local people who have lived on the island for seventy years, it appears that there is only one of these dangerous animals on the island, which the people perceive as... |
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| Alexander, B. 1838 The rhinoceros and its sentinel. New-Yorker 1838 December 15: 196 |
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| Low, J. 1836 History of Tenasserim. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3: 25-54, figs. 2-4 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Tenasserim, Burma, species not clear. The rhinoceros frequents the swampy banks of retired rivulets. |
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