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File AvailableFetherstonhaugh, A.H. 1951 Rhinoceroses. Malayan Nature Journal 5: 191-193
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
The belief that R. sondaicus is found only in low-lying swampy country is contradicted by S. H. Prater who states that this species has been recorded at heights up to 7,000 feet above sea level. I have received reports of unusually large tracks in Malaya up to 4,000 feet. Similar feeding habits ...
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File AvailableAkeley, M.L.J. 1951 Congo Eden. London, Victor Gollancz, pp. i-xxvi, 1-356
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Africa
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
African Rhino Species
Tickbirds accompany all the larger game such as the giraffe and the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
In the rainy season the rhino live in the fields, when the pans dry up they return to the rivers.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
At night it walks to drink in the rivers or large pans in the Omuramben. Deep paths lead to the individual drinking places and from there back into the thornbush, where the rhino has many sleeping places. Many paths lead to these resting places, which are often found under a large shadowy tree.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
In June I found a 2-3 months old calf killed by hyenas.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
Oxpeckers sit on his back or in a nearby tree and warn against danger. Its cry and flight warn the rhino of danger nearby.
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File AvailableBigalke, R.; Steyn, T.; Vos, D. de; Waard, K. de 1950 Observations on a juvenile female square-lipped or white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum (Burch.)) in the National zoological gardens of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 120: 519-528, pls. 1-3
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Africa
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White Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1950 Rhino vs. crocodile. Northern Rhodesia Journal 1 (2): 13
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
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Black Rhino
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File AvailableBabault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
Uganda. We met this rhinoceros in the savannas with high plants of the sides of the Nile.
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File AvailableBabault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
The females are a lot more numerous than the males; they live in small groups whereas the males are very often isolated.
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