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| Title: |
Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros |
| Author(s): |
Shebbeare, E.O. |
| Year published: |
1955 |
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Oryx |
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3 (3) |
| Pages: |
125-126 |
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Behaviour - Fighting
Indian Rhino
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| I have always thought that, apart from trampling on its victim, which may be accidental, the Indian rhino's only weapons were these tushes, perhaps better described as the outer pair of lower incisors, since rhinos have no canines. Unlike the middle pair of incisors, these are pointed and usuall... |
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Behaviour - Fighting
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| What do Asian rhinos use their horn for, if not as weapon? I have been told that they are for grubbing roots and knocking over ant0hills. One certainly often sees areas, several square yards in extent, grubbed up, especially in old, burnt savannah, and mahouts have assured me that this is the w... |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
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| Mr E.P. Gee, in a letter, describes an attack of an elephant by an Indian Rhino in defence of her calf. The elephant attacked was one from which Mr L.M. Talbot was watching the rhinos and it received a gash1 ? inch long by 2 inches deep. The wound was made by one tush only and the horn was not ... |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
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| I remember how Bena, a Bengali tracker, who had once been hoisted by a rhino onto the crupper-ropes of a retreating pad-elephant, used to demonstrate, with his own lower incisors, how the lift had been effected, and the healed scars on his loins fully bore him out. |
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Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros
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