Food Habit and Feeding Patterns of Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, Assam, India

Table 5

Staple food of Rhino in Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park (a) grasses, (b) trees and (c) aquatic plants.

Name of the food plant	Seasons
	PM	M	RM	W
(a) Grasses
Arundinella begalensis (Spreng.) Druce.	1.8	2.3	1.06	0.9
Arundinella nepalensis Trin.	1.9	0.7	0.49	1.84
Arundo donax Linn.	7.8	5.6	6.8	5.3
Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf.	2.4	6.8	3.45	2.66
Chrysopogon aciculatus (Retz.) Trin.	4.01	5.8	4.46	4.13
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers	3.02	1.5	2.3	1.63
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.	1.84	0.25	1.75	1.92
Eriochloa procera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.	1.71	0.5	0.6	0.32
Hemarthria compressa (L.f.) R.Br.	7.9	12.5	14.3	11.83
Hemarthria protesna Steud.	0.96	1.56	1.86	0.82
Hygroryza aristata (Retz.) Nees ex Wight and Arn.	1.81	2.26	2.48	1.34
Hymenachne pseudointerrupta	7.93	13.5	12.57	8.57
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv.	1.6	2.5	2.6	1.2
Leersia hexandra Sw.	3.54	13.72	9.23	8.7
Leptochloa panicea (Retz.) Ohwi	1.8	1.03	1.7	1.56
Oplismenus burmannii (Retz.) P.Beauv.	1.3	1.01	1.6	0.87
Paspalum conjugatum Berg.	0.7	1.3	1.33	0.89
Paspalum dilatatum Poir.	0.86	1.08	1.5	0.6
Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin.ex.Steud.	5.83	3.3	3.88	4.67
Saccharum procerum Roxb.	1.08	1.81	0.93	1.83
Saccharum ravennae (L.) Beauv.	2.61	1.8	0.8	2.31
Saccharum spontaneum Linn.	3.68	0.96	0.68	2.89
Sacciolepis interrupta (Willd.) Stapl.	2.2	0.95	0.74	2.06
Themeda villosa(Poir.) A.Camus.	2.4	0.83	1.06	2.62
(b) Trees
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lamk.	0.02	0.45	0.01	0.04
Bauhinia purpurea L.	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.35
Cassia fistula L.	0.49	0.37	0.05	0.81
Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.	0.67	0.85	0.12	0.87
Ficus glomerata Roxb.	0.57	0.36	0.01	0.63
Ficus rumphii Bl.	0.05	0.35	1.03	0.9
Grewia sapida Roxb.	0.94	0.66	0.61	0.53
Trewia nudiflora L.	0.52	0.62	0.66	0.76
Ziziphus zuzuba Lamk.	0.46	0.29	0.02	0.26
(c) Aquatic plants
Enhydra fluctuans Lour.	0.5	2.1	1.35	0.7
Ipomea aquatica Forssk.	1.03	1.48	1.9	1.26
Pistia stratiotes Linn.	1.73	1.6	0.74	0.89