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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
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| There seemed to be no feeding and sleeping times, it was on the go all day. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Defecation takes place in water as well as on land, the droppings round like tennis balls but I have never seen or heard of the pyramids of cannon balls piled in one place. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| The male organ points backwards between the hind legs, urine is said to be sprayed along the back track for as much as half an hours walk, sometimes six feet off the ground and twenty feet away. |
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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. The crest of the ridge went up and down and in one of the downs a Rhino had made a muddy pond about ten feet by five feet and three feet... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| And so I once explained to a party of Big Game Hunters fresh from Africa, when they were visiting the Natural History Museum, that the Bornean Rhino was not at all brave, it ran away if there was the slightest smell of a man about, pushing the horn under the nearest fallen tree, tossing the whole... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| For a long time the animals were of no value at all, Kayans and Kenyahs carved the Rhino horns into knife handles and sword hilts, there are several specimens in the Sarawak Museum. From about 1918 onwards the horns became very profitable in the export trade to China for medicine and this made t... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| one young born, about 2 feet high. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. One young is born about two feet high and follows the dam very closely, its head between her hind legs and they are said to stay with the mother for as long as seven years. |
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World
Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| One young is born about two feet high and follows the dam very closely, its head between her hind legs and they are said to stay with the mother for as long as seven years. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Skull
Sumatran Rhino
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| The lower incisor teeth are very sharp and point forward, it bites fiercely with these in defence though I have never heard of anyone getting hurt - even the Punan who crept up to a Rhino, seized its tail with one hand and speared it with the other. |
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Mammals from Borneo
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