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The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project |
| Author(s): |
Nardelli, F. |
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1985 |
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Help Newsletter, Port Lympne |
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7 |
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4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 400-600, sumatrensis |
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World
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
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| A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometers for several weeks |
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World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The quantity and distribution of the animal's hair varies from one to another, though it seems most abundant in young animals, and the skin on the face and within the deep folds running round the whole body is usually hairless. The ears are lined with specially thick hair and trimmed with a frin... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| A preliminary survey has shown that the Torgamba district in the eastern part of Sumatra contains enough rhinos to make it a likely source of the first captures. This region has some of the last groups surviving in the lowlands, and the team will start work there in July 1985. The Field Supervi... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| For most of the time they are nocturnal, wandering about in a large territory, though the males seem to cover more ground than the females. |
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Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| Verdicts on the rhino's hearing range from acute to rather poor, though most writers agree that it has a well-developed sense of smell, on which it must rely to help compensate for less good sight. |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometres for several weeks, as they browse on trees and shrubs, taking leaves, twigs, and any fruit in season. Records of their diet include over a hundred plant species from over forty families, though grasses, except for... |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The hair, anything from off-white to black in colour |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| During the twenties and thirties hunters from Thailand, having virtually exterminated the animal in their own country, crossed the border into Burma and repeated the operation there, even as late as the 1960s. |
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Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| The horns, smaller in the female, match the body colour, usually a darkish grey. |
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The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project
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