 Reference Base  De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zo... |
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Balen, J.H. van, 1914. De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Sumatran Rhino |
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B?ttikofer tells the following: 'Soon after arrival on the station Poenan Caves, on the western slopes of the Liang Koeboeng, we found in the wet places of the forest numerous tracks of the rhinoceros. At the same time we found many numerous young treetrunks, about the thickness of an arm, which had been broken off just above the ground or had been uprooted, of which the leaves and twigs had been eaten. My Dajak guide said that it was the work of the Badak. They press the tree down and they walk over it with the tree under their belly, while eating the leaves and twigs. Such a small tree cannot recover again. We also found fresh dung of the animal, which resembled that of a cow. After some time I returned to the same place and the soft parts had been washed away by the rain, leaving only a wooden mass like sawdust. This is sufficient proof that the animal eats a lot of wood together with the leaves. Unfortunately I have never seen one, because when my hunters saw some during the first days of our visit, they shot at them and they disappeared from the area.'
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