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| Title: |
The lesser one-horned rhinoceros |
| Author(s): |
Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. |
| Year published: |
1932 |
| Journal: |
Journal of Mammalogy |
| Volume: |
13 |
| Pages: |
144-149, pl. 11 |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
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| During the day they lie up in the shade on hillsides or on the summits of ridges above streams. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
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| They swim well, crossing rivers. |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. Both these animals were savage, and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih rhino was a well-known indivi... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| specimens Rhinoceros sondaicus, Berlin: Zoologisches Museum der Universitat: Dr. Pohle kindly informs us, in reply to inquiry, that the Museum has ... a skull from Kapala Wuada, Sumatra, collected by Blandowski. |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| When full grown, the lesser one-horned species stands nearly as high at the shoulder as the larger, but its bulk is much less. One in the Liverpool Gardens about 1836 is said to have measured 4 feet, 8 inches at the highest part of the back; another, a large female, according to Cockburn (Proc. ... |
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| until recently even its presence in Sumatra was questioned. Positive evidence is now forthcoming, however, that it still occurs in Sumatra, for De Beaufort (1928) gives an account of a complete skeleton, presented to the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, that was procured by a Mr. Keith, 250 kilom... |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| They appear to be browsers, and also to like fruit, such as wild mangoes and figs; also leaves of trees, and bamboo. |
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Taxonomy
Indian Rhino
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| List of specimens Rhinoceros sondaicus. Although Dr. Pohle of the Museum in Berlin has been unable to trace the type of R. jamrachii, it may be that the specimen is still in Berlin which according to Sclater (1876) was taken in Manipur in 1874 and imported to London by the dealer, Jamrach. Afte... |
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Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| The skull is said to he easily distinguishable by the broader mesopterygoid fossa, with its palatal margin produced in the middle, and by its partially ossified nasal septum. The molar teeth differ in lacking the crista. |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus is easily told from the larger Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis), not only by its smaller size but by the pebbly nature of its skin, which appears as if studded with wart-like nodules.
In both there is a prominent fold transversely at the hip, another just back of the shou... |
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The lesser one-horned rhinoceros
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