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Burma rhino |
| Author(s): |
Reynolds, E.A.P. |
| Year published: |
1954 |
| Journal: |
Burmese Forester |
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4 (2) |
| Pages: |
104-108 |
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| File: |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| The Kahilu Sanctuary in Thaton Division, 62 square miles in extent, was originally instituted for the protection of Rhinoceros sondaicus (one horned variety). They are fond of eating chilli crops and do some damage to taungyas, when they roam out of range. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| They love frequent mud baths, rolling themselves for hours with lazy contentment in mud wallows as would a common village buffalo. These mud wallows are found on banks of streams in low terrain, and even on mountains heights above 5000 feet. |
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World
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| They are curiously fastidious about their latrine arrangements; and usually dump their droppings in one place. It is by these 'dumps' and by a string of their favourite wallows that would-be poachers track them. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| In the Mong Mit Division, there is a popular belief that in the month of wazo (July), all rhinoceros in the Shwe-u-Daung congregate and meet at one particular 'aing' called the 'Wazo Aing' but this belief has not been tested out as yet. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| Some appear to have a distaste for jungle fire, which they charge and trample. It is believed that there are fire-eating, or fire-attacking rhinoceros. Bad omens are associated with their killing; female rhinoceros are fond of tossing large branches or small logs which come in their way and some... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| nevertheless, it would appear that it is not illegal for persons to be in possession of rhinoceros blood for medicinal purposes, and this affords an unfortunate loophole in the Law. There is a wide-spread belief in the aphrodisiac properties of rhinoceros horn, and the tonic properties of rhinoc... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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| Rhinoceros are known to be aggressive and charge on provocation to the extent of 'treeing' the huntsman and patiently awaiting his descent. They are, however, like other wild animals, very afraid of man, and will, on the slightest danger, retreat into impenetrable haunts. |
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Burma rhino
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