 | Pienaar, D.J. 1994 Habitat preference of the white rhino in the Kruger National Park: pp. 59-64, figs. 1-2
 | In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 |
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| Kruger NP. A study was begun in 1988 to ascertain the landscape and habitat preferences and dispersal of the white rhinoceros in the KNP. The objective of this study was to ascertain which landscapes in the KNP white rhino select for and why they selected them.
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
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Sumatran Rhino
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| When rhinos use an area, they create wide and obvious 'highways' along ridges and waterways, often with distinctive scrape marks and dung deposits. They follow these well established paths repeatedly and over long distances. As rhinos travel, they spend time feeding on leaves, stems and twigs, ... |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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| Rhinos also use salt licks and mineral springs, which are often located close to waterways where the soft ground allows easy identification. |
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| Young, T.P.; Evans, M.R. 1993 Alpine vertebrates of Mount Kenya, with particular notes on the rock hyrax. Journal of the East African Natural History Society 82 (202): 55-79, table 1 |
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| Mount Kenya. Rhinos have been sighted on several occasions above the treeline. Lew Awodey found a recently dead individual (horn intact) near the Sirimon River at 3700m in 1978. |
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| Vangengeym, E.A. ; Vislobokova, I.A.; Godina, A.YA. ; Dmitrieva, E.L.; Zhegallo, V.I.; Sotnikova, M.V.; Tleuberdina, P.A. 1993 On the age of mammalian fauna from the Karabulak Formation of the Kalmakpai River (Zaysan Depression, Eastern Kazakhstan). Stratigrafya i Geologicheskaya Korrelyazya [Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation], Moskva 1 (2): 165-171, 1 fig, 1 tab [English version] – ibidem, pp. 38-45 [Russian version] |
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| Billia, E.M.E. 1993 Resti rinocerontini (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) del Pleistocene Superiore di Ingarano (Apricena, Foggia, Italia meridionale) [Rhinoceros (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) remains from the Late Pleistocene of Ingarano (Apricena, Foggia, Apulia, Southern Italy). A part of a paragraph of the dissertation presented to the University of Rome. |
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| The find regards two rhinoceros species: S hemitoechus (Falconer, 1859) juvenilis and Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blum., 1799). This C. antiquitatis find represents one of the southernmost records of the species in Eurasia.
More recent data on the Ingarano stratigraphy may be found in Petronio &a... |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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White Rhino
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| South Africa. Player & Feely (1960) listed four basic habitat requirements:
- areas of short grass, for which they have a marked preference;
- stands of medium tall Panicum maximum which they find under trees (Emslie, pers. comm.);
- the availability of water for drinking and in which to w... |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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| The black rhinoceros requires a habitat providing adequate shrubs and young trees up to about 4 m high, including well developed woodland or thickets in which to shelter during the heat of the day or in inclement weather. A water supply, not only for drinking but also in which to bathe and mud-w... |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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White Rhino
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| They tend to use established routes to water or to preferred grazing areas. |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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| Within the territory the dominant bull usually has a number of favourite resting places in which he lies up in the shade during the heat of the day, either standing or reclining on his belly or side. In cool cloudy weather with high winds they tend to shelter in thickets. Cows and subadults do ... |
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