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Reference Base  De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zo... |
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De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren |
| Author(s): |
Balen, J.H. van |
| Year published: |
1914 |
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Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh |
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pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is similar to the animal on the mainland of India. It is distinguished in the following ways: The head is smaller in comparison to the rest of the body, less powerful, lower and less dented on the top. The folds in the neck are more numerous and prono... |
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Ecology - Food
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... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| The food of the rhinoceros consists of all kinds of leaves, grass, thin branches etc. He likes the leaves of Ficus nivea and Ficus fistulosa, young sprouts of the bamboo, glaga, alang alang. In remote plantations of coffee or other crops it can often do a lot of damage, for which reason there i... |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The colour is lighter than the Javan and generally brownish grey, but meat coloured around the lips, under the belly and within the folds of the skin. The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish. |
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World
Taxonomy - Taxa
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is similar to the animal on the mainland of India. It is distinguished in the following ways: The head is smaller in comparison to the rest of the body, less powerful, lower and less dented on the top. The folds in the neck are more numerous and prono... |
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Location:
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World
Ecology - Food
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... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| The food of the rhinoceros consists of all kinds of leaves, grass, thin branches etc. He likes the leaves of Ficus nivea and Ficus fistulosa, young sprouts of the bamboo, glaga, alang alang. In remote plantations of coffee or other crops it can often do a lot of damage, for which reason there i... |
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World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The calves at birth are covered with coarse, somewhat wooly hair, dirty white in colour with brown tips. Along the back the hairs form narrow dark stripes. |
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