Great One-Horned Rhinocerous (Rhinocerous unicornis)

[Jimmy]

(08-12-2018, 08:40 AM)Wolverine Wrote: We talked a lot how tiger could immobilize a rhino, but maybe the opposite question - what could rhino do the tiger is interesting as well. Unlike African rhinos which always attack the enemy with their horns Indian rhino as long as I know use for fight mainly its 10 sm long sharp lower incissor teeth.

Amazingly enough raged Indian rhino attacks even riding elephants trying to bite them.... I am wondering:

a.) How often (as %) Indian rhino use its horn for attack and how often its lower incisor teeth and does this animal ever use its horn? Then why this specie has a horn? In such a case African rhinos should probably be much more efficient and dangerous for the predators than Asiatic species.

b.) How serious wounds can rhino cause to tiger with its lower incisor teeth - light, serious or deadly wounds? Probably it looks a bit funny when enraged mother start trying to defend its calf by biting tiger instead of poking him.

a)for me, biting is more subtle and painful, the opponent gets the message and withdras quickly, while in goring it is heavy prolonged fight until one hits the target (some vulnerable spots) and cripples the opponent for life, sadly we don't have much video to see a fighting between indian rhinos two equal rivals it may be like a tapir in fighting style, i think with using it's horn it uses it initially while head on then it opens it's mouth and tries to bite maybe it swithces between horn and teeth like zebras biting and kicking technique.

b) here is one video i found on indian rhino that attacks a human in Chitwan- looks like the folks are filming and harassing a rhino when it's out of the jungle in buffer zone area, it is quite disturbing last few seconds

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