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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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The rhinoceros is obtained with yet greater ease. This animal is frequently found wallowing in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in the mud and only part of its head visible. The Malays call such an animal 'badak tapa', or the 'recluse' rhino. Especially towards the close of the rainy season, they are said to seek places in which to bury themselves in this manner, and upon the dry weather setting in, through the powerful effect of the vertical sun, the mud which surrounds them forms a hard thick crust, in which the rhinoceros is embedded, and from which it cannot escape without some difficulty and exertion.
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Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
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