 | Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115
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| The Black Rhino feeds mostly on thorns, and like all game, especially in the hot dry season, he drinks nightly, so it is not difficult to pick up his spoor and follow him to his resting place which, in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, is usually in the hills. As he makes for his daytime haunts he... |
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| Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 |
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| They appear to be browsers, and also to like fruit, such as wild mangoes and figs; also leaves of trees, and bamboo. |
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| Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115
| In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 |
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| The Black Rhino feeds mostly on thorns, and like all game, especially in the hot dry season, he drinks nightly, so it is not difficult to pick up his spoor and follow him to his resting place which, in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, is usually in the hills. As he makes for his daytime haunts he... |
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| Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 |
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Javan Rhino
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| They appear to be browsers, and also to like fruit, such as wild mangoes and figs; also leaves of trees, and bamboo. |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 |
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| Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot. |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 |
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| Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot. |
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| Burtt, B.D. 1929 A record of fruits and seeds dispersed by mammals and birds from the Singida District of Tanganyika territory. Journal of Ecology 17 (2): 351-355 |
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| A translation of this item by Martha Ruszkowski is freely available at http://blog.1800flowers.com/international/rhinoresource-center-uk/ [accessed December 2011]. |
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| 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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| The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have. |
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| 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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| The black rhino eats leaves and twigs and parts of trees, not even excepting the Acacia, however many thorns they may have. |
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| 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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| The white rhino eats exclusively grass, even rejecting (according to Lang) other grassy plants which he might cut off while grazing. This diet has very little moisture, for which rreason he needs to drink water frequently. |
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