 Reference Base  The Javan rhinos, Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, of Ca... |
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Asia - East Asia - Vietnam |
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Morphology - Horn |
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Javan Rhino |
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Vietnam. Griffiths (1992) recognising 31 individual Javan rhinos in Ujong Kulon, 60% of which the sex was known, notes that all individuals confirmed to be male have a horn, while all individiials confirmed to be female have no horn. Amman (1985) concludes that female Javan rhinos in Ujong Kulon have at most a small 'hump' and exceptionally a 'small horn'. Schenkel and Schenkel-Hulliger (in Amman, 1985), however, observed that all the rhinos they saw in Ujong Kulon had a distinctive horn and assumed that at least some of them must have been female. Whether or not female Javan rhinos from Ujong Kulon have a small horn or a hump remains unclear. The horn in the pictures of the rhinos from Cat Tien National Park are not large but seem to be too large to be, subjectively, classified as 'hump' or 'small horn'.
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