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File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
From 1-3 March of the following year [?], during a holiday, Assan said that he had seen a large swamp in which daily rhinos were wallowing, also there were some large trees with Bua-Kayu fruit, which the rhinos like to eat. After crossing some hills, we came near the Lepan River, the right bank ...
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File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Sumatra. Rhinos were eating leaves of trees and bananas. There were some large trees with Bua-Kayu fruit, which the rhinos like to eat.
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File AvailableHurgronje, C. Snouck 1903 Het Gajoland en zijne bewoners. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, pp. i-xx, 1-452
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Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
People place snares on the paths of elephants. When the animal steps in it, a heavy log falls down, which has a sharp bamboo or a iron point at the end. This was directed such that it hits the elephant in the back. This instrument, called gedabohan, is also much used to kill the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
The first horn was shining black and about 20 cm long, the second was quite small. Another animal: front horn 11 cm, second horn 5 cm.
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File AvailableHartert, E. 1901 Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers: Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknupfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien. Berlin, R. Friedlander and Sohn; London, R.H. Porter and 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-xv, 1-329
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is not really rare in the lowland forests of all N.E. Sumatra. I once saw one in the forest at Serdang, where I came across aprobably adult animal, which just walked away.
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File AvailableNeumann, G. 1901 Revision de la famille des Ixodides. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France 14: 249-372, figs. 1-18
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Diseases - Parasites
Asian Rhino Species
Specimens of Amblyomma crenatum, 2 males and 2 females found by M?sch in Sumatra (Mus. Berlin). The ones in Paris are from Africa. This distribution is strange. Probably 'Sumatra' is not correct.
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File AvailableSchlegel, G. 1901 Geographical Notes. XVI. The Old States in the Island of Sumatra. T'oung Pao (2) 2 (2): 107-138
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File AvailableSchlegel, G. 1901 Geographical Notes. XVI. The Old States in the Island of Sumatra (continued). T'oung Pao (2) 2 (3): 167-182
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File AvailableSchlegel, G. 1901 Geographical Notes. XVI. The Old States in the Island of Sumatra (continued 2). T'oung Pao (2) 2 (5): 329-377
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File AvailableNeumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Rivers Pane and Bila, Sumatra. Rhinos of two species are found both in the plains and on the highest and most inaccessible mountains.
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