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Mammals from Borneo |
| Author(s): |
Banks, E. |
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1978 |
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Brunei Museum Journal |
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4 (2) |
| Pages: |
165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Rhino when feeding squeals to itself with pleasure and can be heard some way off. When wallowing it snorts and blows and also makes a plaintive sound rather like the swishing noise made by the wings of a Hornbill in flight. When suspicious it gives a loud snort, breathes heavily through the... |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin is said to be more than half an inch thick but the epidermis is very thin and I believe dries very quickly. There is a deep fold in the skin behind the shoulder and another not so deep, just in front of the hind quarters. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros. |
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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
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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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| In my time the few that were left lived far away in the hills and mountains, as high up as 7000 feet in the moss and rotan forest. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Male height 4-5 feet, female slightly smaller |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin is said to be more than half an inch thick but the epidermis is very thin and I believe dries very quickly. There is a deep fold in the skin behind the shoulder and another not so deep, just in front of the hind quarters. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Places to wallow in the mud were always necessary. I saw a good one in the Ular Bulu mountains on the water-shed between the Rejang river and the Mukah river. Afterwards it had rubbed against a smooth rock, probably used on many previous occasions. |
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Mammals from Borneo
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