 | Campbell, G. 1957 Rhino on two legs. Field 209 (5440), 1957 April 11: 570 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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Black Rhino
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| Observation in Karamoja, Uganda, 1925. I came on 2 rhinos, and one was up on his hind legs with his forefeet on the low boughs of a tree, eating the leaves. He appeared to be almost at full stretch. |
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 | Anonymous 1957 Neushoorn Suze ging zich te buiten. Artis Nieuws, Amsterdam 128 |
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Black Rhino
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| Amsterdam Zoo - Diceros bicornis. The female rhino has changed the rules that a herbivore does not eat meat, by suddenly eating a pigeon whole with feathers and all. The pigeon had been wounded, a healthy one would fly away when a rhino approaches. |
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| Avari, E.D. 1957 The Jaldapara Game Sanctuary, West Bengal. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 29 (3): 65-68, pls. 1-2 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
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| Jaldapara, Bengal. Possessing ideal cover for the Rhinoceros, being overgrown with tall grass and reeds, with several low lying isolated swamps, this type of country grows the favourite food of the Rhino, wild ginger and the tender shoots of marsh reeds. |
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| Glover, R. 1956 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (4): 197 |
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Indian Rhino
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| The following note on the Great Indian rhinoceros appeared in the United Services Journal, November, 1849. Though it bears out Mr. Shebbeare's opinion, given in the last Oryx, that in general this rhinoceros uses his 'tushes' not his horn in attack, it does also suggest that the horn may sometim... |
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| Owen, T.R.H. 1956 The black and the white rhinoceros. Uganda Wildlife and Sport 1 (1): 27-31, pls. 5-6 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
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African Rhino Species
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| Pitman, C.R.S. 1956 Weapons of the two African rhinoceroses. Oryx 3 (4): 195-196 |
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Africa
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| Shebbeare, E.O. 1955 Weapons of the Great Indian rhinoceros. Oryx 3 (3): 125-126 |
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Indian Rhino
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| Mr E.P. Gee, in a letter, describes an attack of an elephant by an Indian Rhino in defence of her calf. The elephant attacked was one from which Mr L.M. Talbot was watching the rhinos and it received a gash1 ? inch long by 2 inches deep. The wound was made by one tush only and the horn was not ... |
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| Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
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| They love frequent mud baths, rolling themselves for hours with lazy contentment in mud wallows as would a common village buffalo. These mud wallows are found on banks of streams in low terrain, and even on mountains heights above 5000 feet. |
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| Reynolds, E.A.P. 1954 Burma rhino. Burmese Forester 4 (2): 104-108 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Javan Rhino
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| The Kahilu Sanctuary in Thaton Division, 62 square miles in extent, was originally instituted for the protection of Rhinoceros sondaicus (one horned variety). They are fond of eating chilli crops and do some damage to taungyas, when they roam out of range. |
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| Hutchinson, G.E.; Ripley, S.D. 1954 Gene dispersal and the ethology of the rhinocerotidae. Evolution 8 (2): 178-179 |
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