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Title: The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II
Author(s): Prater, S.H.
Year published: 1934
Journal: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Volume: 37 (1) Supplement
Pages: 57-96, pls. 15-36
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Museums - North America
Museums
Indian Rhino
2 mounted skins. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, USA
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Asian Rhino Species
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. A small number are present in the Shwe-u-Daung Sanctuary in the Mogok division of the Katha District where proper protection may save this species from extinction in Burmese limits.
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Sumatran Rhino
it also occurred in Assam from which province it is now practically exterminated.
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.
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World
Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
The food consists chiefly of grass. In Nepal during the rains Rhinoceros frequently enter cultivation.
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
The Two-horned Rhinoceros was once fairly common throughout Burma
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World
Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
All the living rhinoceroses are included in a single genus. Their massive build, the thickness and solidity of their bones, their short stumpy legs each furnished with three toes are some of the family characters. The skin in all the living forms is either thinly clad with hair or naked and in ...
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World
Morphology
Indian Rhino
The skin of this massive creature is divided into great shields by heavy folds before and behind the shoulder and in front of the thighs. In this Rhinoceros the folding of the skin in front of the shoulders is not continued right across the back. The skin on the flanks, shoulders and bind quart...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
In parts of Assam, where it is still found, strict preservation has temporarily saved it from extermination.
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