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Mammals from Borneo |
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Banks, E. |
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1978 |
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Brunei Museum Journal |
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4 (2) |
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165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| There they travelled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. The two horns seem to be no more than a sort of fork lift used to raise up obstructions in its path. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Male 8-9 feet long, female slightly smaller. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Longest front horn 19 inches, but 10 inch is about average. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Schimaru |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Hunting
Sumatran Rhino
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| I once went Rhinoceros hunting. After a day and a half by outboard motor from Trusan town we left the river and marched inland. The first hill was Bukit Tamunan, a monument to liars. In the old days anyone who told a whopper had a pile of stones erected in his 'honour' and passers by added to ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The large, odd shaped head is mostly full of nasal bones which give the Rhino a particularly well developed sense of smell. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The sight is said to be poor, the hearing fair. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| There they traveled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. |
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Mammals from Borneo
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