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Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia |
| Author(s): |
Cranbrook, Earl of |
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1987 |
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Singapore, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press |
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pp. i-vii, 1-95 |
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Asia
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| less than 300 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| An expedition in 1893-94 to the upper Kapuas, West Kalimantan, found hunters active and no sign of rhino. |
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World
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Both rhinos are browsers, feeding on a mix of foliage and fruit, particularly of plants associated with disturbed forest or secondary vegetation, like Macaranga sp., Mallotus sp., Artocarpus sp. and figs. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin bears a sparse but even coat of short, stiff hairs. Some specimens, especially those in zoos, grow a patchy coat of shaggy hair, which may be tinged reddish brown; others are rubbed bare. On pieces of skin of a freshly killed Sumatran rhino from Sabah, which I examined for forensic pur... |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| The skin bears a surface pattern of mosaic like roughened thickenings and is folded into stiff, permanent creases. Three such folds cross the back, one before and one behind the shoulders and one over the rump. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| In Peninsular Malaysia, Rhinoceros sondaicus has proved most susceptible to modern pressures, having last been recorded in the 1930s. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| An expedition was mounted to shoot the last Rhinoceros sondaicus for museum specimens in 1932, supported by the Game department. |
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Value - Related to Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The present predicament of both rhinos in SE Asia is chiefly attributable to the high value attached to their horns, in particular, other bodily organs and even blood. |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| They are normally solitary. |
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Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
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| They are normally sedentary but not territorial, in so far as the home ranges of individuals may overlap. |
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Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia
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