 | Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire)
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White Rhino
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| Thanks to their thick hide, rhinos can easily force their way through even the wildest and densest vegetation. Even in the high shrubs of the Uele, where sometimes the grass is 4 to 5 metres high at the end of the wet season, they force their paths without much effort. They seem totally at ease... |
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| Hesse, R. 1924 Tiergeographie auf Oekologischer Grundlage. Jena, Gustav Fischer |
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Javan Rhino
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| On Java, the forests at 1500 to 3000 m altitude are no longer as dense and dark as those lower on themountains. The rhinoceros lives primarily here, although it is still present in lower and especially higher altitudes. |
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| Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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Black Rhino
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| Kaokoveld, Namibia. The Kaoko rhino likes to live in mountainous areas, where it can wander with great speed. |
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| Barns, T.A. 1923 Ngorongoro, the giant crater; and the gorilla, the giant ape. Journal of the Royal African Society 22 (87): 179-188 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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Black Rhino
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| (After climbing to summit of Ololmoti, the northern crater) My followers and I arrived at the top very much out of breath and pretty well fagged, so it was a very mean advantage that two Rhino took of us on the very summit, by charging us in the rough scrub, shaking us up very badly after the ard... |
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| Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| Nepal. Commenting on the habits of the animal General Kaiser writes, ?Though it prefers swamps and high grass the great Indian Rhinoceros is also found in wooded jungles, up ravines and low hills; along the numerous rivers it has its particular places for the evacuation of excreta. Along the ru... |
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| 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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Black Rhino
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| Providing that the reserves are of ample size and contain an adequate supply of acacia bush, which forms its diet, and water, it will survive. |
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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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| Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The rhinoceros is often a path-maker in the literal sense making path used by people in the impenetrable jungles. |
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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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Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - Thailand. Chieng Hai is situated on a large plain chiefly covered by high grass and reeds which makes travelling very difficult. However, I once tried to get a rhinoceros, the fresh tracks of which we found. We followed its tracks for a considerable distance in the h... |
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