Reference Base Notes for: Behaviour - Towards Man back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2  Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros is the most stupid animal imaginable. His idiotic fury makes it a very dangerous animal. When one encounters a rhinoceros in the bush, he generally does what all animals do: he runs away. It is, however, not strange to be charged by a rhinoceros when one does not even know its p...   details White, S.E. 1912 The rambunctious rhino. The American Magazine 75 (1) November: 55-60, 3 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Marx, E.; Koch, A. 1910 Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn. Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41 (3): 161-171, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino The temperament of the animal is never kind. It can never be trusted, and although it looks indefensive when sleeping, it is quite brutal in the attack.   details Drake Brockman, R.E. 1910 The mammals of Somaliland. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvii, 1-201 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Very short-sighted but endowed with a remarkable sense of smell, he can easily be approached with due precaution.   details Dugmore, A.R. 1910 His sulkiness, the rhino. Everybody's Magazine 22 (5) May: 624-31, 10 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino its disposition is, however, stated to be more gentle, and in Java tame individuals are frequently to be seen wandering about the villages of the natives. Mr. T. R. Hubback, on the evidence of native testimony, affirms that either this or the next species uses its lower tusks for fighting in the...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino When driven into the open, the animal will often stand for a few minutes, shaking its ears, before it makes up its mind in which direction to flee. A calf and its mother always issue forth together, but the old bulls and cows keep mostly apart, although both may have their home in the same patch...   details Schneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino That the Sumatran Rhino will attack a human without being prompted, I have experienced myself. Around 5 pm, I was in company of 3 locals, when we came to a small open place in the forest which we had to cross. One of the men whispered: 'Sir, there is a rhino over there.' And indeed I saw, at a...   details Eliot, C. 1905 The East Africa Protectorate. London, Edward Arnold, pp. i-xii, 1-334 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros has a really bad, cantankerous temper, and that without much excuse, for his food is vegetable.   details Evans, G.H. 1905 Notes on rhinoceroses in Burma, R. sondaicus and sumatrensis. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 555-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Burmans and Karens, as a rule, with the exception perhaps of the hunters, are much afraid of these animals, and this is perhaps not to be wondered at if we bear in mind the very ferocious character attributed to them. They are said to attack human beings without provocation, and to be most vindi...   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The animals were both of a quiet and inoffensive disposition, allowing themselves to be stroked and patted and readily fed from the hand although they had been quite recently caught.   details Ridley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily ...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino in disposition it is morose and solitary with coarse and uncouth manner, great irascibility, unbounded curiosity and singular nervous excitability; it is subject to paroxysms of fury when it tears up the ground in great furrows with its horns, and behaves generally in a most whimsical manner. Mu...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino The square-mouthed rhinoceros is always spoken of as a most mild and inoffensive creature, very sluggish and unsuspicious; its sight is very bad, though scent and hearing seem to be acute; this no doubt is so, and accounts to a great extent for its almost total extermination, but at the same time...   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino On his 16 months' journey to Lake Rudolph, a few years ago, Dr. Donaldson-Smith found Rhino in many places a perfect pest. They would frequently rush out at members of his caravan, walking innocently along a jungle path, and would even charge through the line of camels ; a camel on one occasion,...   details Cox, P.Z. 1900 Notes on Somaliland, part I. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13 (1): 86-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino As an. item in the list of big game, he sometimes affords sufficient excitement, as he habitually charges when wounded, and not infrequently when unwounded and entirely without provocation; but on the whole he would appear to be much less formidable than the elephant.   details Grogan, E.S.; Sharp, A.H. 1900 From Cape to Cairo: the first traverse of Africa from south to north. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvi, 1-377 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino I consider the rhino an overrated beast and cannot think that he cannot be really dangerous in any but thick country. He certainly will charge, unprovoked at times, but it is only a blundering resentment at the unwelcome scent of the intruder. A shot at close quarters will almost invariably tur...   details Neumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinoceros generally run away from man as all animals. Sometimes they will charge without cause. I do not believe that they differ in disposition in different localities.   details Ridley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino It is a quiet, inoffensive beast.   details Goetzen, G.A. Graf von 1895 Durch Afrika von Ost nach West: Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von den Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Kuste bis zur Kongomundung in den Jahren 1893/94. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, pp. i-xii, 1-417 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Some days later, we saw no less than 7 rhinoceroses. One of them went through the chain of our carriers and caused a great panic.   details British Museum (Natural History) 1894 Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 5th ed. London, British Museum (Natural History) Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man White Rhino it was of a milder and more timid disposition than the ? black ? species, and capable of being tamed.   details Swayne, H.G.C. 1894 Further field-notes on the game-animals of Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 316-323 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino The rhinos were not more prone to charge than elephants, and I only had one narrow escape.   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino A very remarkable circumstance connected with the mother was her unexpected quietness; for she had, previously to the birth of the young one, been inclined to attack the keeper or any one who went near her; but after the young one was born, she allowed the keeper to enter the den and milk her as ...   details Higginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino The rhinoceros is fierce, but flies from man. When wounded or a female with calf, the rhino is dangerous and hard to kill.   details Hagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The Malay on Sumatra differentiate two species, one the Badak krbo is larger and rather quiet and inoffensive, and the smaller Badak tenggiling, which is quite aggressive and always attacks men.   details Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood.   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino When the animal is encountered suddenly in the open, it sometimes will go towards the people with its head bent down and snorting, apparently from a combination of fear and anger. Once two of my hunters were attacked by three rhinos, which following each other ran towards them with enormous spee...   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino If left unmolested they are, usually speaking, harmless, but when wounded, dangerous, especially to a sportsman on foot.   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it.   details Jagor, F. 1866 Singapore - Malacca - Java: Reiseskizzen. Berlin, Julius Springer, pp. i-vi, 1-252 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino The rhinoceros is shy and rarely seen. Still there are cases when it has attacked people, possibly when it is ready for mating.   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino 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...   details Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino They are considered by those acquainted with their habits the most dangerous to attack of all Indian wild beasts.   details Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species Rhinos are tamed in a few months and may be seen at Gowahatty grazing on the plains as harmless as cows, guarded by a single man. When they are tame, they can be bought for 100-150 rupees. Many have been sent to Calcutta where they fetch 500 rupees.   details Butler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Rhinos are tamed in a few months and may be seen at Gowahatty grazing on the plains as harmless as cows, guarded by a single man. When they are tame, they can be bought for 100-150 rupees. Many have been sent to Calcutta where they fetch 500 rupees.   details Roorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Asian Rhino Species The stories that the rhinoceros is never tamed are contradicted by experience.   details Geoffroy St. Hilaire, I. 1842 Description des collections de Victor Jacquemont: Mammiferes et oiseaux. Paris, [no publisher], pp. 1-87, i-iv Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Observations by Jacquemont. A very interesting fact that has been mentioned is the use that is made of the rhinoceros in its haunts on the other side of the Ganges, as we are assured, for works in agriculture.   details Anonymous 1842 Rhinoceros [broken loose in Barrackpore, Calcutta, killing a man]. Reading Mercury Saturday 15 January 1842 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Jacquemont, V. 1841 Voyage dans l'Inde pendant les annees 1828 a 1832: Journal. Paris, Firmin Didot freres, vol. 1, pp. 1-3, i-iii, 1-526 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Barrackpore, Calcutta in 1829. The animal came from the mountains on the other side of the Ganges, where I am assured, the animals are used in the works of agriculture.   details Gelpke, J.H.F.S. 1838 Schets van het eiland Nousakambang-an. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1 (2): 54-70 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinoceroses have settled on the island, but if we are to believe the story of the local people who have lived on the island for seventy years, it appears that there is only one of these dangerous animals on the island, which the people perceive as holy, and which has received the name kerto dupo...   details Low, J. 1836 History of Tenasserim. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3: 25-54, figs. 2-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino Rhinoceros horn are an article of trade but the quantity is very limited, the natives being more afraid of this animal than of the elephant or even the tiger. He is considered courageous who will venture near the spot where one may be luxuriating in the cool mud of a creek, for the animal it is ...   details Nagel, G.H. 1828 Schetsen uit mijne Javaansche portefeuille. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-117 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Behaviour - Towards Man Javan Rhino They are harmless because they run away from people, and are rarely seen.   details Hodgson, B.H. 1826 Remarks on the rate of growth and habits of the Rhinoceros indicus, communicated with notes by Dr Abel. Asiatic Journal 22: 193-197 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Animal born in Kathmandu was very tame, both to its keepers as to visitors.   details Hodgson, B.H. 1826 Ueber das zu Nepaul beobachtete junge Nashorn. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 15 (325): 264 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino Animal born in Kathmandu was very tame, both to its keepers as to visitors.   details Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino They are not bold and one of the largest size has been seen to run away from a single wild dog.   details Daniell, W. 1807 Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustrative scenery, designed and engraved by William Daniell. London, T.Cadell and W. Davies, vol. 2, pls. 1-63 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino It therefore nearly approaches the elephant in bulk, but differs infinitely in intelligence, being stupid, brutal and absolutely indocile.   details Daniell, S. 1805 African scenery and animals. London, Samuel Daniell, pls. 1-30 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino This animal is not by any means vicious.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2