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The Rhino Document Library

Contains a total of 30437 references.

The RRC website provides access to an extensive database of indexed and tagged references, abstracts and full texts covering all aspects of rhino knowledge. There are no restrictions on language, time period, location or type of publication, including reports and grey literature. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.

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Tangye, H.L. 1896. In new South Africa: travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. London, Horace Cox. pp. i-viii, 1-431.
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Merensky, A. 1875. Beitraege zur Kenntnis Sued-Afrikas, geographischen, ethnographischen und historischen Inhalts. Berlin, Verlag des Missionshauses. pp. i-iv, 1-171.
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MacKenzie, J. 1871. Ten years North of the Orange River: a story of everyday life and work among the South African tribes from 1859 to 1969. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas. pp. i-xx, 1-523.
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Thomas, Thomas M. 1872. Eleven years in Central South Africa: a journey into the interior – sketch of recently discovered diamond and gold fields – Umzilikazi, his country and people – a brief history of the Zambesi Missions. London, John Snow and Co and Cardiff, James Wood. pp. i-xi, 1-418.
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Colbert, E.H. 1938. Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (6): 255-436.
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Wickler, W.; Seibt, U. 1997. Aimed object-throwing by a wild African elephant in an interspecific encounter. Ethology 103: 365-368.
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Mohr, Erna; Haltenorth, T. 1958. Saugetiere: eine Auswahl von 192 Einzeldarstellungen auf 192 Tafeln in 7- bis 8-farbigem Offsetdruck nach Originalen von W. Eigener, F. Murr, K. Grossmann, H. Vogel. Hamburg, Kronen Verlag Erick Cramer.
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Bourliere, F. 1958. Le monde des mammiferes. Paris, Horizons de France.
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Walker, C.H. 1999. Lightning disaster in Lapalala Wilderness. Rhino Watch 12 in SA Game & Hunt 5 (3): 29, figs. 1-2.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1999. A most impudent lying contradictory fellow. Rhino Watch 11 in SA Game & Hunt 5 (2): 28-29, fig. 1.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1999. Rhinoceros factfile 2: The structure of the horn. Rhino Watch 11 in SA Game & Hunt 5 (2): 29.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1989. The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790. Rotterdam and Brookfield, A.A. Balkema. pp. i-xii, 1-368, pls. 1-16, figs. 1-165, maps. 1-19.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1989. The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790. Utrecht University: Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht --- in het openbaar te verdedigen op maandag 22 mei 1989 des namiddags te 4.15 uur. pp. i-xvi, 1-368, figs. 1-165, maps 1-19.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1988. A pictorial companion to the South African journey of Francois Le Vaillant (1753-1824). Africana Notes and News 28 (2): 46-51.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1988. The taxonomic importance of C.P. Thunberg’s revision of South African mammals (1811). South African Journal of Science 84 (3): 159-161, table 1.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1986. Review of R.P.W. Visser, The zoological work of Petrus Camper. Annals of Science 43: 412.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1986. Bibliographical notes on the SAOS Checklist of Southern African birds. Ostrich 57(3): 190.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1986. The location of Levaillant’s ‘Pays d’Auteniquois. Ostrich 57 (3): 189-190.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1985. The zoological notes by Johann Reinhold and George Forster included in Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle (1782). Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 12 (2): 203-212, figs. 1-2.  doi.org/10.3366/anh.1985.12.2.203
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1985. Sparrman on Hottentots. Africana Notes and News 26 (6): 254.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 1983. On the identity of the tackhaitse. Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library 37 (3): 307-309, figs. 1-2.
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