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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand |
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Morphology - Size |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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Thailand, Chaiyaphum Province. With one guide we walked up river, reasoning that a rhino, to cross the valley, would have to cross the stream, and it was an ideal situation for tracks. We found tracks of rodents, civets, tigers, bears, elephants, otters, deer, and gaur, and eventually came across one track which appeared to be that of Sumatran rhino. It was 20 cm wide, well within the normal 18-24 cm range given by Medway (1969), and well under the 25-35 range for the Javan. The track was at least three weeks old, but the animal appeared to have dug his toes into the bank for a better grip, leaving a relatively clear print for the middle toe, less clear for the side toes. We followed tracks upstream and found other less obvious tracks (though the size was appropriate for Sumatran), a very old wallow and a few feeding sites, where some thin saplings had been twisted in a manner distinctly rhinoceros (Strickland, 1967).
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Rhinos in Thailand
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