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Oldfield, H.A. 1880. Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co. vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418.

Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive

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Location World Subject General Species All Rhino Species

Maharaja Jang Bahadur was very succesful this year; they killed several and wounded a large number of rhinoceros. Generally the elephants are afraid of them.

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Location Nepal Subject General Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

Nepal - hide. Out of the skin, after being cleaned and cured, they make capital water-buckets.

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Location Nepal Subject Distribution Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis) Year 1880

The great beat for rhinoceros is along the valley of the Rapti River, in the neighbourhood of Chitaun (at or near the confluence of the Rapti and the Manhauri rivers).

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Location Nepal Subject Morphology Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

The horns of rhinos of the eastern Terai and Chittagong are much the longer, finer in texture and better coloured, having little or no white in them, and, from being harder, take a finer polish.

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Location Nepal Subject Morphology Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

The horn of the male is larger and rougher at the base but is not generally so long as that of the female.

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Location Nepal Subject Behaviour Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

The male uses his horn much more than the female in fighting, rubbing against trees &c. and generally manages to break or wear the end off so as to shorten it.

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