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| Title: |
A game book for Burma & adjoining territories |
| Author(s): |
Peacock, E.H. |
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1933 |
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London, H.F. and G. Witherby |
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pp. 1-292 |
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| File: |
View PDF: 991,3 kb |
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World
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| The Javan rhinoceros is hairless |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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. 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 1930 in Burma for BMNH. Hairy throughout, but less hairy on face and head; very hairy on legs and ears. A thick fringe of hairs along the flattened survace at the tip of the tail. The hairs are thinly distributed and reveal the underlying skin. |
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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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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Burma. The tracks of an adult Javan rhinoceros are about 8 ? to 9 inches in diameter. This is only an inch or two greater than the tracks of an adult Sumatran rhinoceros. The toes of the latter are less splayed out than the former, but the tracks appear almost identical except in size. |
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Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| This sanctuary [Shwe u Daung] has been guarded by a peculiar superstition to the effect that the sanctuary is occupied by wood-spirits which are intolerant of poaching. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Large collections, of rhinoceros dung are commonly found and show that these animals, when not disturbed, are accustomed to return to the same spot for this purpose. I have seen a collection of their droppings nearly 2 feet high and 4 feet across. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Its wallows are generally found in the pockets of hills at the sources of streams springing from high and remote watershed. The wallows vary in size from a shallow depression scarcely larger than the animal itself, and apparently individual to itself, to ones 20 or 30 feet across which are used ... |
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A game book for Burma & adjoining territories
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