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Title: The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak
Author(s): Hose, C.
Year published: 1929
Publisher: London, H.F. and G. Witherby
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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World
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
During the course of this day's journey we were agreeably surprised to find a sort of ready-made path cleared, as far as one could guess, for our special benefit; on either side of the track the bushes were sprinkled with mud. On making enquiries I was told that a rhinoceros or some other large ...
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Europe
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Bornean Rhinoceros
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He frequents the foothills below the mountains.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
Another story recounting how the Animals of the Jungle, observing Man's success, resolved upon a tuba-fishing of their own, the triruration of the root to be performed by ordinary chewing. Unhappily the only four-footed creatures who could deal with Derris elliptica without harm to the system, w...
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
He comes down in the heat of the day to take his ease in what are called 'salt-licks', muddy baths formed by springs of saltish water. The clearing and the mud of the bushes were, as I was told, caused by the creature's trampling movement on his way home to his lair higher up the hills. My info...
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