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The Rhino Document Library
Contains a total of 30057 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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Anonymous 2018. Durchbruch in der Rettung des Nördlichen Breitmaulnashorns. Takin (Berlin) 27 (2): 40-43.
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Miazga, K.; Joubert, J.; Sinclair, M.; Cywinska, A. 2020. Releasing three orphaned white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) to the Game Reserve in South Africa: rehabilitation, translocation and post-release observations. Animals 10 (12), 2224: 1-15. doi.org/10.3390/ani10122224
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Lang, H. 1929. One of the last white rhinoceros in Umfolozi. Illustrated London News Saturday 09 February 1929: 226-227.
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MacNaught, F. 1932. The hunt for the one-horned Javan rhinoceros. Illustrated London News Saturday 15 October 1932: 566-567.
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Wardle, A.H. 1932. Evening visitor to the links at Nyeri. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Saturday 1 October 1932: 34.
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Arbuthnott, J.C. 1903. Letter No. 77 dated Jowai, 28 August 1903, to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, on establishing an asylum for the rhinoceros. Assam Secretariat Proceedings September 1905, p.2 (reproduced in Choudhury 2019:29).
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Arbuthnott, J.C. 1902. Letter No. 75 (No.2409G) dated Gauhati, 4 November 1902, to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, on destruction of the rhinoceros. Assam Secretariat Proceedings September 1905 (reproduced in Choudhury 2019:28).
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Choudhury, A. 2003. Declaration of Manas as Elephant Reserve. Assam Gazette Extraordinary 2003 March 10: 305-306.
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Kenshaw, L.J. 1905. 2441R – Notification of the proposed reserved forest in North Kamrup. Assam Government Proceedings 1905.
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Rookmaaker, L.C.; Rhino Resource Center; Ziegler, D.; Monson, J.; Strien, W. van; Athanassiou, A.; Billia, E.M.E. 2020. New literature in the Rhino Resource Center. Electronic Newsletter of the Rhino Resource Center no. 61 (December): 1-19.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 2020. Twenty years of literature on the rhinoceros 2000-2019, extracted from the Rhino Resource Center (RRC). Doorn, RRC. pp. 1-346.
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Rookmaaker, L.C. 2020. The maximum size of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Pachyderm 61: 184-190.
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Bhattacharya, B.K. 2019. Who killed the wandering rhino in Assam. www.mongabay.com 9 September 2019: 1-10.
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Henshilwood, C.S.; Sealy, J.C.; Yates, R.; Cruz-Uribe, K.; Goldberg, P.; Grine, F.E.; Klein, R.G.; Poggenpoel, C.; Niekerk, K. van; Watts, I. 2001. Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the 1992–1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28 (4): 421-448. doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2000.0638
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Badenhorst, S.; Niekerk, K. van; Henshilwood, C.S. 2016. Large mammal remains from the 100 ka Middle Stone Age layers of Blombos Cave, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 71: 46-52.
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Reynard, J.P.; Henshilwood, C.S. 2016. Environment versus behaviour: Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Quaternary International 500: 159-171. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.040
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Reynard, J.P.; Discamps, E.; Badenhorst, S.; Niekerk, K. van; Henshilwood, C.S. 2016. Subsistence strategies in the southern Cape during the Howiesons Poort: Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa. Quaternary International 404: 2-19. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.041
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Avery, G.; Halkett, D.; Orton, J.; Steele, T.E.; Tusenius, M.; Klein, R. 2008. The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age rock shelter and the evolution of coastal foraging. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 10: 66-89.
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