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| Title: |
A game book for Burma & adjoining territories |
| Author(s): |
Peacock, E.H. |
| Year published: |
1933 |
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London, H.F. and G. Witherby |
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pp. 1-292 |
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| File: |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| It favours the very heaviest types of evergreen forest and is usually found near the sources of streams in remote hill forests. It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills.
Unlike Rhinoceros sondaicus the Sumatran rhinoceros delights in s... |
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Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| Burma. The Javan differs mainly from the Sumatran in its fondness for low-lying, swampy ground, and presumably also in being of a less active and alert disposition. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| Rhinoceros horns are occasionally faked: I have seen a very clever imitation made of buffalo horn which defeated detection until it had been broken up. |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Burma. The horns of males are said to be about 10 inches in length. The male has only one horn. The female may have a very small horn or none at all.. |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| I have heard the humming sound that Burmans say this rhinoceros sometimes makes when in its wallow, but from so great a distance that I am not prepared to swear to the fact. From close quarters I have heard them utter harsh grunts, and one that I had shot emitted loud whistling screams that coul... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma, Gestation period 8 months |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. The tracks of male and female rhinoceros are identical. Indications of a large horn may be apparent in the deep holes and gashes sometimes made in the banks of wallows, and in the excessive twisting of saplings. The manner in which urine is dropped sometimes serves as an indication of s... |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| One shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. The heavy folds of skin behind the shoulder, on the flank and round the neck, and other peculiarities of shape and structure are clearly seen in the illustration on Plate VI. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma - Confusion with other species. The three-toed tracks of a rhinoceros cannot be confused, even on a poor surface, with any animal except tapir and, perhaps, a young elephant. The tapir has four toes on the fore-feet but, since the impressions of the hindfeet usually cover those of the for... |
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A game book for Burma & adjoining territories
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