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Captive - Europe |
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Captivity - Zoo Records |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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At the end of April Francesco Nardelli and I made arrangements to transport Meranti to Port Lympne and Rokan to Surabaya Zoo in Java. These animals had for different reasons remained in the base camp for around nine months. Meranti's departure from Indonesia was timed to coincide with the appearance of leaves on the deciduous trees at Port Lympne. While she had for some time been fed lucerne hay in preparation for the inevitable, though not too drastic, change in diet she would experience, it was hoped she would take to some if not all of the browse she would be offered, with our homegrown, luceme hay as a standby. The same means of transport and the same routes were used as previously with Subur, and on 30th April Meranti arrived at Port Lympne. During my departure to collect her, Torgamba had been moved from his temporary quarters at Combe Farm to the new complex created for the Sumatran rhinos in the wood below the mansion. It met with his immediate approval.
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The Sumatran rhino project
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