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Title: Present status of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis (Fischer) in the Shwe-U-Daung Reserve, Burma
Author(s): Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H.
Year published: 1959
Journal: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Volume: 56 (3)
Pages: 625
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Asian Rhino Species
Based on a draft report by Oliver Milton & R.D. Estes about a survey in the reserve in July and August [1959 ?] `when the monsoon was at its worst making it difficult to find, follow, and identify rhino tracks. More than half the Reserve, i.e. over 60 sq. miles, was sampled including some 25 sq....
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Asian Rhino Species
Considerable depletion of wild life took place in the Rserve during and since the last war until about 1956, anti-government elements have made protective control by the Forest Department impossible. From local evidence it seems that since about 1940 at least 17 rhinos have been killed. This fi...
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Calamus sp. and Toddalia aculeata
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World
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Myanmar, Shwe-U-Daung, 1959. Two sources of food particularly favoured by rhinoceros, namely Kyansa (Toddalia aculeata) and Kyein (Calamus sp.).
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1959, Myanmar, from 500 kyats ($105) to 1000 kyats ($210) per inch
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Calamus sp. and Toddalia aculeata
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value
Asian Rhino Species
1959, Myanmar, 500 kyats, $ 105 per 1 viss = 3.65 lb
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value
Asian Rhino Species
1959, Myanmar, 50 kyats, $10.50 per 1 viss=3.65 lb
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Myanmar, Shwe-U-Daung, 1959. Two sources of food particularly favoured by rhinoceros, namely Kyansa (Toddalia aculeata) and Kyein (Calamus sp.).
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value
Asian Rhino Species
1959, Myanmar, 5 kyats, $ 1.05 per half ounce
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