Rhino populations declined in India after 1900. In order to pursue the Indian rhinoceros, Europeans engaged in the hunting ‘sports’ turned to the terai of Nepal for their trophies. Johnson, P.A. and Hoffman, T.J., London – 1903
For more information on these photographs, see caption to fig. 24.11 in Rookmaaker, L.C. 2024. Historical records of the rhinoceros in Central Nepal (Chapter 24). In: Rookmaaker, L.C. 2024. The rhinoceros of South Asia. Leiden, Brill (Emergence of Natural History, vol. 6). pp. 239-282, 65 figs. doi.org/10.1163/9789004691544_025
