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File AvailableMoura, J. 1883 Le Royaume de Cambodge. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-518
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Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Cambodia. Like the elephant, the rhinoceros eats the large plants and the leaves of wild bamboo.
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Hamburg Zoo. The diet of the rhinos in the zoo is as follows. The adult Indian rhino eats 50 pounds of hay, the younger two-horned rhino 20 pounds. In addition, all rhinos and elephants receive 75-77 pounds of cooked rice (raw weight 16 3/4 pounds), 4-5 pounds wheat leaves, 4 pounds maize, 6 p...
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Hamburg Zoo. The diet of the rhinos in the zoo is as follows. The adult Indian rhino eats 50 pounds of hay, the younger two-horned rhino 20 pounds. In addition, all rhinos and elephants receive 75-77 pounds of cooked rice (raw weight 16 3/4 pounds), 4-5 pounds wheat leaves, 4 pounds maize, 6 p...
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceroses often nearly ruin the villagers by breaking into the rice and maize fields.
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Asia - South Asia - India
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...
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File AvailableGorkom, K.W. van 1868 Verslag omtrent de kina-kultuur op Java over het jaar 1867. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 30: 235-247
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World
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
The lancifolia of the kina plantation only grows in mountains. Maintenance and supervision is there impossible and slowly the largest specimens are destroyed by forest animals like rhinoceroses and wild cows.
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File AvailableGorkom, K.W. van 1865 Jaarlijksch berigt over 1864, aangaande den toestand der kinakultuur op Java. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 28: 241-265
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
An old lancifolia and an succirubra, part of the kina plantations were destroyed by rhinoceros.
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File AvailableKirk, J. 1864 List of Mammalia met with in Zambesia, East Tropical Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 December: 649-660
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World
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
Zambesi River. Its food consists of leaves and twigs of trees.
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