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Title: The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed
Author(s): Baldwin, J.H.
Year published: 1877
Publisher: London, Henry S. King and Co
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-xxiv, 1-380
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
We often hunted this huge animal in the neighbourhood of Tezpore, where it was by no means rare; an exceedingly fine specimen was shot by my brother officers, near the margin of the Lowqua Lake in the month of April 1865. [Tezpur on north bank of Brahmaputra, just west of Kaziranga]
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Status
Indian Rhino
In former years it was to be met with in the forests bordering on the Sardah in Nepaul and the Philibeet district, and also in Gorruckpore; but it is now extinct there or very nearly so.
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
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Indian Rhino
The Indian Rhinoceros is found in Assam, where it is still plentiful, and also in the Bhootan jungles.
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World
Morphology
Indian Rhino
General Colour - Dirty black.
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Asia
Ecology - Habitat
Indian Rhino
Rhinoceri are usually found in swamps where the reeds and grass are very dense, remaining hidden, often asleep, during the day: at night they come out to feed on the edge of the forest. We usually came across them on the edge of some inland jheel or lake, where the water was surrounded by dense ...
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World
Morphology
Indian Rhino
Tail - Short.
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
Feet - Divided into three toes. The foot of the rhinoceros is divided into three, that of the elephant into five toes, so that their footmarks are at once distinguishable the one from the other. Moreover, the prints differ in size, the elephant's being much larger.
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Morphology - Horn
Indian Rhino
Both sexes a single horn, situated near the end of the snout, slightly curved and poitning backwards, from 15 to 20 inches in length. The Indian Rhinoceros, male and female, has a single horn, seldom growing to more than eighteen inches in length. The horn of the rhinoceros can be removed with ...
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Location:
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
In former years it was to be met with in the forests bordering on the Sardah in Nepaul and the Philibeet district, and also in Gorruckpore; but it is now extinct there or very nearly so.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
They sometimes will travel long distances to reach rice and corn fields, and do immense mischief, so much so that there is a Government reward of twenty rupees to anyone shooting a rhinoceros.
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