मृगपक्षी-शास्त्र (हंसदेव - १३वीं शती का अमर भारतीय वन्यजीव, पक्षी एवं प्राणि-विज्ञान)

They dance fairly and they possess a little passion. They will
deliver young ones twice or thrice in their life time. They are quiet
after trained and they work and walk as men.
They must be carefully captured only by noose and carefully
trained. Before attain their prime youth they must be caught else, they
will not yield to anything owing to much passion and bad temper. They
become old after their 9th year. Their hair would begin to wither in
their old age and appear to be ugly. Their utmost age is 14 years.
Owing to their mean mindedness and dull nature they are called
THAMASA or infeiror class.
5th GROUP.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF RHINOCEROSES.
There are 2 kinds of Rhinoceroses in the forest. They resem-
ble elephants in all respects save trunk. They are black having short
tails. They are very cruel and physically very strong. Their limbs
are awkward and uniform. They are carnivorous and dull in nature
and slow in speed. They are terrible and harmful. Passion increases
in summer season. They have intercourse either in the day-times or
in the night-times. They first lick the female ones with their tongues,
turning around them and then begin to enjoy with them. They would
enjoy either in bushes or in low places. Just after their enjoyments,
they (female) become pregnant. Owing to pregnancy they are re-
duced. They eat less food. Their delivery time is fixed to 10 to
12 months. The young ones suck their mother's milk till one year,
when they begin to run and injure smaller animals. Their youth
begins in their 5th year.
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