Peacock, E.H., 1933. A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Morphology |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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Burma - Confusion with other species. The three-toed tracks of a rhinoceros cannot be confused, even on a poor surface, with any animal except tapir and, perhaps, a young elephant. The tapir has four toes on the fore-feet but, since the impressions of the hindfeet usually cover those of the fore-feet, a three-toed track is left that is somewhat similar to that of a rather small rhinoceros. In the Tenasserim forests rhinoceros and tapir are located over the same ground, but this is not so in other parts of the Province, tapir being non-existent elsewhere than in Tenasserim. The tracks of the Javan rhinoceros are similar to, but somewhat larger than, those of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Average-sized tracks of adults would be about 9 inches and 7 ? inches in diameter respectively. The signs of the two species are very similar in most other respects, and it is difficult to distinguish between the two from signs and tracks alone. In the habitat of the Javan rhinoceros, however, a large track that leads in any direction other than through the rough hilly ground favoured by Rhinoceros sumatrensis, may very likely be that of a javan rhinoceros.
The tracks of male and female rhinoceros are identical. Indications of a large horn may be apparent in the deep holes and gashes sometimes made in the banks of wallows, and in the excessive twisting of saplings.
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