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| Title: |
The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv) |
| Author(s): |
Beavan, R.C. |
| Year published: |
1865 |
| Journal: |
Intellectual Observer |
| Volume: |
6 |
| Pages: |
170-174 |
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| File: |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers.
The author was for some months stationed at the little ou... |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Stationed in the village of Julpigoria, an outposton this frontier, situated on the banks of the Teesta. Expedition into Bhutan in May. On return, in a small patch of reeds near a swamp, we came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos. R. fired right and left and to our intense astonishment, down dropped ... |
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| India. As it was now dusk, we had to leave the spoil where it fell, but sent a couple of elephants and a few natives with axes next day to bring in the trophies, their heads, horns, and armour-plates, and part of the flesh, which some experimented on, cooked like a steak, but, though eatable, it... |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
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| When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft... |
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Distribution - Hunting
Asian Rhino Species
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| Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers.
The author was for some months stationed at the little ou... |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| Bhutan, shields. The hide of the animal is made by the Bhotanese into small round shields with brash bosses let in, and are considered by them to be bullet-proof. |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| They generally live in families of four or five together, and are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts. |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| They generally live in families of four or five together. - We came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos. |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Indian Rhino
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| When provoked, the rage of the Indian rhinoceros is almost beyond conception; it charges blindly with great violence, and combining as it does enormous weight with an almost bullet-proof hide, its onset is much dreaded by even the staunchest in the line of elephants engaged in beating, and as oft... |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
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| They are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts. |
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The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv)
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