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Asia - South Asia - Pakistan |
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Distribution - Records |
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Indian Rhino |
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It is difficult to believe that it once ranged right across the Himalayan foothills to Pakistan. The great Moghul Emperor Baber gives accounts of hunting this beast in the Vale of Peshawar in what is now the North West Frontier Province. They were armed only with a cross-bow and arrow for such hunts. This was around 1526 and presumably at that time suitable riverine grass thickets and swamps extended right across the foothill zone of the Himalayas. That the animal was well known to the Indus Valley peoples in ancient times is further corroborated by seals which have been excavated at Harappa (Sahiwal District on the Ravi River) clearly depicting R. unicornis.
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The mammals of Pakistan
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