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| Title: |
Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia |
| Author(s): |
Cranbrook, Earl of |
| Year published: |
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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Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
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| Densities in primary forest tracts as Endau-Rompin vary from one Sumatran rhino per 40 km? to one per 120 km? |
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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
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin folds are reduced and only two cross the spine, one over the fore-parts and one over the rump. The surface texture of the skin is granular. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Taxonomy - Evolution
Javan Rhino
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| Archeology has shown that the Javan rhinoceros has disappeared from Borneo since about 12,000 years ago, evidently from natural causes. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin folds are reduced and only two cross the spine, one over the fore-parts and one over the rump. The surface texture of the skin is granular. |
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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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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| The trade in rhino horn and other parts is ancient. The effects were already noticeable by the 19 th century and became acute in the 20 th. In Borneo, a scientific expedition in 1894-94 to the upper kapuas found hunters active and no sign of rhino. |
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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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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| They deposit their dung at fixed points where large piles of their nodular droppings accumulate. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| They make wallows in muddy ground and frequent mineral springs. |
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Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia
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