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  • Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. 450 pp. Laurie, W.A. (1982) Behavioural ecology of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis).

    Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal 2009

  • Prior to its re-introduction to Royal Bardia National Park in 1986, the park contained the last Nepalese population of the Indian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis (E).

    Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal 2009

  • It harbours the world's largest population of Indian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis, which has increased from a few dozen in 1908, some 670 in 1972, 1,100 in 1988 to a more recent number, despite some 200 losses to poaching in the 1990s, of 1,500.

    Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

  • Habitat association and notes of the southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis) in Carrasco National Park, Bolivia.

    Bolivian Yungas 2008

  • Additionally, expeditions undertaken just to study such rare and strongly endemic populations, such as the southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis).

    Bolivian Yungas 2008

  • Royal Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal contains more than 500 of the world's 1,000 endangered greater one-horned rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis) and about seventy breeding tigers (Panthera tigris).

    Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands 2008

  • Chitwan, which was established as the country's first national park in 1973, is well known for its tiger and greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis, EN) populations.

    Biological diversity in the Himalayas 2008

  • It is also an area with a concentration of species of limited distribution such as the paujil cornudo (Crax unicornis koepckeae), picaflores (Metallura theresiae, Heliangelus rejalis), lechuza (Xenoglaux loweryi) and ranas (Dendrobates mysteriosus).

    Peruvian Yungas 2008

  • For instance, some of India's remaining viable populations of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and the world's largest population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) still survive here.

    Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests 2007

  • The top part, that containing the eyes, was removed, and the shell having been smoothed and polished, the opening was tightly covered with the skin of some scaleless fish -- that of the _kala_ (Acanthurus unicornis) was preferred.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

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