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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)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| The blood and horn of the Sumatran rhinoceros have a very high medicinal value in the imagination of Chinamen, Burmans and tribesmen indigenous to Burma. One gathers that such parts of a rhinoceros have the properties of a very potent aphrodisiac. An average horn, about 8 inches in length, is w... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| The front horns of males average 7 or 8 inches and those of females about 3 inches. I have never seen a horn, in Burma, over 10 inches in length. There are two specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, however, in which the front horns measure 32 ? inches and 27 inches. Such horns w... |
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Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. I have never seen or heard of more than one calf at heel, but it is certain that the calves remain with the mothers to an advanced age. |
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Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. It is certain that the calves remain with the mothers to an advanced age. The Shans, with whom I hunted, used to say that the scarcity of rhinoceros was largely due to the fact that the mothers are accustomed to treat their young in a very brutal fashion; frequently tossing them over the... |
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1933, Burma, An average horn, about 8 inches in length, is worth about 1000 rupees, and the blood, when dried, is valued at its own weight in silver. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Burma. The height of a mature specimen of the javan rhinoceros is probably about 5 feet 6 inches, or roughly a foot higher than the Sumatran rhinoceros. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| The posterior horns of males average about 3 inches and those of females are mere knobs. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Average height 4 feet 3 inches (average of 3 specimens shot in Burma). Largest 4 feet 8 inches high. |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Tail only 1 foot 9 inches |
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A game book for Burma & adjoining territories
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