Shoemaker, A.H.; Riverbanks Zoo and Garden 1977. Two years after opening the Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. International Zoo News 24 (1): 22-27.
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Black rhinos have bodyguards with wings
In Swahili the red-billed oxpecker is askari wa kifaru, "the rhino's guard". Research shows the name is earned: a black rhino carrying oxpeckers spots an approaching human every single time.
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Morgan-Davies, A.M. 1977. First Black rhino bred in captivity at Kyarimi Park Zoo, Maiduguri, Nigeria. International Zoo News 24 (1): 45.
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Fourvel, J.B.; Bailon, S.; Bruxelles, L.; Cohen, J.; Crégut-Bonnoure, E.; Desclaux, E,; Guiragossian, T.; et al. 2026. Deciphering hominin-carnivore alternations at Les Auzières (Méthamis, Vaucluse), a Middle Palaeolithic site in south-eastern France. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 39 (1): 1-18. doi.org/10.26382/AMQ.2026.03
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Sycheva, S.A. 2026. Detailing the stratigraphic scheme of the Upper Neopleistocene of the Central East European Plain and correlation with other loess regions of Eastern Europe. Presentation of the Aleksandrov quarry section as a stratotype. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 34 (5): 547-565. doi.org/10.1134/S0869593826700164
Walker, E.A.; Case, D.; Peterson, R.; Aldhouse-Green, S.; Eastham, A.; Faillace, K.; Ingrem, C.; et al. 2026. Hoyle’s Mouth, Tenby, Wales: Stephen Aldhouse-Green’s excavations 1986–1996. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 30 (2): 73-131.
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Peterson, R.; Case, D.; Walker, E.A.; Aldhouse-Green, S.; Coles, G.; Eastham, A.; Jones, J.R.; et al. 2026. Little Hoyle Cave, Tenby, Pembrokeshire: Stephen Aldhouse-Green’s excavations 1984–1990. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 30 (2): 133-204.
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Khatsenovich, A.M.; Klementiev, A.M.; Marchenko, D.V.; Bazargur, D.; Margad-Erdene, G.; Dalantai, S.; Gunchinsuren, B.; et al. 2026. Occupation of Tsagaan Agui Cave during Last Glacial Maximum. Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 25 (7): 20-35. doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2026-25-7-20-35
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Berliguzhin, M.T.; Akhmedenov, K.M.; Yakupova, J.B. 2026. Paleoecological reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene in the lower reaches of the Ural (Zhaiyk) River based on the materials of the Daryinsk museum collection. Fundamental and Experimental Biology 31 (3): 83-93. doi.org/10.31489/2026FEB3/83-93
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Naito, Y.I.; Chikaraishi, Y.; Drucker, D.G.; Ohkouchi, N.; Semal, P.; Wißing, C.; Bocherens, H. 2016. Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen. Journal of Human Evolution 93: 82-90. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.009
Titov, V.V.; Yarmolchyk, I.A.; Baygusheva, V.S.; Vislobokova, I.A.; Lopatin, A.V. 2026. Elasmotherium chaprovicum (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) from the Early Pleistocene Taurida Cave, Crimea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2026 (e2664788): 1-13. doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2664788
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Yarmolchyk, I.A.; Sizov, A.V.; Baasankhuu, S. 2026. Novye nakhodki sherstistykh nosorogov (Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach, 1799) iz pozdnego Pleystotsena Mongolii [New finds of woolly rhinoceros from the Late Pleistocene of Mongolia]. LXXII sessija Vserossiyskogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshschesta – Paleontologicheskomu Obshschestvu Rossii 110 let Itogi i Perspektivi 2026. pp. 266-268.
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Titov, V.V.; Yarmolchyk, I.A. 2026. Taksonomicheskoe polozhenie nosoroga iz mestonakhozhdenija Tul’chin (Vinnitskaya Oblast’, Ukraina) [Taxonomic position of the Rhinoceros from the Tulchyn Locality (Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine)]. In: Modern Paleontology: classical and newest methods, October 12–14, 2026 Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Program Abstracts. p. 33.
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Germonpre, M.; Udrescu, M.; Fiers, E. 2012. The fossil mammals of Spy. Anthropologica et Praehistorica 123: 289–327.
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Patou-Mathis, M. 2000. Neanderthal subsistence behaviours in Europe. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10 (5): 379-395. doi.org/10.1002/1099-1212(200009/10)10:5<379::AID-OA558>3.0.CO;2-4
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