 | Schlagintweit, E. 1880 Indien, in Wort und Bild: Eine Schilderung des Indischen Kaiserreiches. Leipzig, Heinrich Schmidt and Carl Guenther, vol. 1, pp. i-vi, 1-255 |
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Indian Rhino
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| The rhinoceros uses its horn like the hogs use their incisors, and in Nepal they will even attack elephants. |
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| Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Maharaja Jang Bahadur was very successful this year; they killed several and wounded a large number of rhinoceros. Generally the elephants are afraid of them. |
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| 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 |
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| If left unmolested they are, usually speaking, harmless, but when wounded, dangerous, especially to a sportsman on foot. They will occasionally, in this condition, like the buffalo, charge an elephant with their eyes closed, and inflict severe wounds. I have never seen this happen, but I rememb... |
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| Bradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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| In 1870, on River Menam, we witnessed a fight between a bull buffalo and a rhinoceros in which, however, neither seemed much hurt. |
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| Anonymous 1874 Fearful fight with a rhinoceros [elephant at London Zoo]. Reynolds's Newspaper Sunday 29 November 1874 |
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| Bickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The natives here know nothing of the frequent combats between these animals and elephants, that are so frequently pictured in popular works on natural history. |
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| Beavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174 |
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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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| Borcherds, P.B. 1861 An auto-biographical memoir, being a plain narrative of occurrences from early life to advanced age, chiefly intended for his children and descendants, countrymen and friends. Cape Town, A.S. Robertson, pp. i-xxv, 1-500 |
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Black Rhino
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| Translocated animals
The male calf became separated from its mother and was eventually taken by lions at Saminungu 13 days after release. |
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| 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 |
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| If the rhinoceros succeeds in overtaking the elephant, he bites large pieces of flesh from the elephant's sides or legs, and with the horn on the nose not infrequently inflicts fearful wounds. |
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| Verhuell, Q.M.R. 1836 Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indie. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-247 |
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| The dung of the rhinoceros worried us, because it is looked for by the tiger, who eats it. As the tiger is bloodthirsty, the almighty Creator has shown it to use the dung of the rhinoceros as a repellant. |
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