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| Title: |
A game book for Burma & adjoining territories |
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Peacock, E.H. |
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1933 |
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London, H.F. and G. Witherby |
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pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Sumatran rhinoceros has been so heavily poached within the past twenty years that there are now vast stretches of suitable evergreen forest from which it has been completely exterminated. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Javan rhinoceros has been shot illicitly on numerous occasions by professional hunters and poachers: in fact, it has now been poached almost out of existence. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of the Salween and Tenasserim drainages and in a few other remote hill tracts. In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. It is open to question whether the Javan rhinoceros ever existed outside of the Thaton, Salween and Mergui Forest Divisions in Lower Burma. The only definite records of its existence come from these three Divisions. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Rhinoceros are difficult animals to track because it is difficult to judge their probable line with the accuracy possible in the case of most other animals. The wretched creatures will as soon walk through a bush as round it; will on occasion totally disregard contours, and. will usually follow ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| This rhinoceros is one of the rarest marnmals in the world, and has been seldom shot or seen by any sportsman. Indeed, in Burma, there is no authentic record of its shooting, except in one instance, viz. a specimen shot and presented to the British Museum some years ago by Mr. T. Hubback. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The senses of smell and hearing are very good. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| This sanctuary which, hitherto, has been guarded only by the occasional visits of one or two forest subordinates and a peculiar superstition to the effect that the sanctuary is occupied by wood-spirits which are intolerant of poaching. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of the Salween and Tenasserim drainages and in a few other remote hill tracts. In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus . A few years ago a prolonged search for this rhinoceros in the Victoria Point Subdivision of the Mergui District by an expedition formed by Mr. Vernay was fruitless, and led to the conclusion that it is now very nearly extinct in the only locality where it was likely to be ... |
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A game book for Burma & adjoining territories
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