 | Talukdar, B.K. 1998 Tiger predation of rhinoceroses. Oryx 32 (2): 96 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Data collected from 1985 to 1995 has revealed that tiger predation is the second largest threat to the rhino population after poaching. In the 11-year period 178 rhinos were killed by tigers in the park, 149 (83.7 %) of them calves. |
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| Banks-Smith, N. 1998 Van Gogh horns in!. Really Rhinos 12 (2): 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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Black Rhino
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| A male black rhino called 'Van Gogh' filmed in Namibia by Mike Hearn of Save the Rhino, is named thus because one ear was bitten off by a hyena. |
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| Lessee, J. 1998 [Various notes]. Really Rhinos 12 (1) |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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White Rhino
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| White rhino were being killed at the rate of 1 per month, by rogue elephants, aggressive young bull elephants that killed rhino by knocking them over, kneeling on them and goring them. |
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| Masibo, J. 1998 Rhino drama in the Mara. Press Release |
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| On 26 Oct 1998, the pride of lions ambushed a subadult zebra. Before they had suffocated the zebra, the resident black rhino emerged from a nearby thicket and chased the pride off. The zebra was badly injured and could not run away, to our amazement it was then set upon by the rhino. It gored ... |
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| Berger, J.; Cunningham, C. 1998 Behavioural ecology in managed reserves: gender-based asymmetries in interspecific dominance in African elephants and rhinos. Animal Conservation 1 (1): 33-38, figs. 1-4 |
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| Dominance and gender in elephant-rhino encounters
In The Travels of Babar, interspecific animosity was described some 60+ years ago: 'the rhinoceroses have fled and are still running ... What a glorious day for the [victorious elephants]. See also Alexander 1838 and Andersson 1856. Whether the... |
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| Wickler, W.; Seibt, U. 1997 Aimed object-throwing by a wild African elephant in an interspecific encounter. Ethology 103: 365-368 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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White Rhino
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| While studying the various ways in which African elephants make use of their trunk, tusks and toes in different feeding situations, we witnessed object throwing in an interspecific and presumably antagonistic encounter, which we videotaped, in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in November 1993. An eleph... |
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| Berger, J.; Cunningham, C. 1996 Is rhino dehorning scientifically prudent?. Pachyderm 21: 60-68, fig. 1, tables 1-2 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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| Reply to Lindeque & Erb (1995)
Previously, we suggested that when dehorned mothers were sympatric with spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) in the Namib Desert, fewer calves were recruited than in the absence of hyaenas. We also pointed out that drought was likely to have exacerbated these effects... |
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| Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Number of rhinos killed by tiger in and around Chitwan
Inside Park Outside Park
1973 2 1980 0 1987 1 1973 0 1980 1 1987 0
1974 1 1981 0 1988 1 1974 0 1981 0 1988 0
1975 0 1982 0 1989 2 1975 1 1982 0 1989 0
1976 0 1... |
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| Alderlieste, C. 1995 Neushoorns in de mist. Dieren 11 (5): 152-157, figs. 1-10 |
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| Rhinos are often accompanied by oxpeckers. They help to clear their host from ticks and warn in case of danger. |
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| Lindeque, M.; Erb, K.P. 1995 Research on the effects of temporary horn removal on black rhinos in Namibia. Pachyderm 20: 27-30, table 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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| Hyena preying on calves of dehorned Diceros bicornis
A contrast in the experimental design of Berger & Cunningham (1994a) is the presence and absence of large carnivores in three parts of a large study area in northwestern Namibia, variously described as ca. 7000 km? (Berger & Cunningham. 1994... |
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