Reference Base Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra |
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| Otto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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| Otto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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| Hurgronje, C. Snouck 1903 Het Gajoland en zijne bewoners. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, pp. i-xx, 1-452 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| 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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| Otto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185 |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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| Hartert, 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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| Neumann, 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
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| 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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| Schlegel, 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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| Schlegel, 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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| Schlegel, 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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| Neumann, 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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