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File AvailablePfeffer, P. 1958 A l'ouest de Java: La reserve d'Udjung-Kulon. Science et Nature, par la photographie et par l'image no. 28, July-Aug: 3-9, 5 images, 1 map
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableGlover, R. 1956 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (4): 197
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World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
The following note on the Great Indian rhinoceros appeared in the United Services Journal, November, 1849. Though it bears out Mr. Shebbeare's opinion, given in the last Oryx, that in general this rhinoceros uses his 'tushes' not his horn in attack, it does also suggest that the horn may sometim...
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File AvailableShebbeare, E.O. 1955 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (3): 125-126
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World
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
Mr E.P. Gee, in a letter, describes an attack of an elephant by an Indian Rhino in defence of her calf. The elephant attacked was one from which Mr L.M. Talbot was watching the rhinos and it received a gash1 ? inch long by 2 inches deep. The wound was made by one tush only and the horn was not ...
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File AvailableFerguson, F.S. 1952 Correspondence (Cattle Egret on white rhinoceros). Sudan Wildlife and Sport 2 (3): 42-43, figs. 1-2
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
I enclose a photgraph which I took near Shambe of two Cattle Egrets perched upn a white rhinoceros.
The Editor adds a sketch made in the field by M. Lucien Blancou, Game Warden, F.E.A., showing a Cattle Egret on a rhinoceros.
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File AvailableAkeley, M.L.J. 1951 Congo Eden. London, Victor Gollancz, pp. i-xxvi, 1-356
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Africa
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
African Rhino Species
Tickbirds accompany all the larger game such as the giraffe and the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
In June I found a 2-3 months old calf killed by hyenas.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
Oxpeckers sit on his back or in a nearby tree and warn against danger. Its cry and flight warn the rhino of danger nearby.
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File AvailableBabault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
The small birds that they carry warn them of the approach of a danger while flying off, but when these are absent and when one approaches with a favourable wind, one can come very close to them without bothering them.
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File AvailableBabault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
They have an antipathy for elephants, but don't dare to attack them.
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File AvailableShebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3
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Indian Rhino
He is not afraid of elephants but does not like them to approach nearer than about 25 yards.
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