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Reference Base  The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new ... |
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The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet' |
| Author(s): |
Lydekker, R. |
| Year published: |
1907 |
| Publisher: |
London, Rowland Ward |
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pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. so into Eastern Bengal and the Sandarbans; while a specimen has been killed as far west as the Sikhim Terai. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Now, however, this animal has retreated almost, if not entirely, to the eastward of the Tista valley, on the borders of Kuch-Behar; its main strongholds being the great grass-jungles of that province and of Assam. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceros unicornis. Not improbably the rhinoceroses found till about the year 1850 in the grass-jungles of the Rajmahal Hills, in Bengal, belonged to the present species.. |
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World
Morphology
Indian Rhino
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| With the exception of a fringe on the margins of the ears, and some bristly hairs on the tail, the coarse and massive skin is completely nude; the tubercles attaining their maximum development on the shoulders, thighs, and hind-quarters, where they not unfrequently measure an inch in diameter. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. So into Eastern Bengal and the Sandarbans; while a specimen has been killed as far west as the Sikhim Terai. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| and down to the middle of the last century, or even later, it was to be met with along the foot of the Himalaya as far west as Rohilcund and Nepal, and it survived longer still in the Terai of Sikhim. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| and down to the middle of the last century, or even later, it was to be met with along the foot of the Himalaya as far west as Rohilcund and Nepal, and it survived longer still in the Terai of Sikhim.. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Other specimens of the hairy-eared race have been subsequently obtained in Assam, where the species is rare; and one example has been killed in Tippera, and a second in the Bhutan Duars. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Now, however, this animal has retreated almost, if not entirely, to the eastward of the Tista valley, on the borders of Kuch-Behar; its main strongholds being the great grass-jungles of that province and of Assam. |
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Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| At their bases the two horns are separated from one another by a considerable interval; and although in captive individuals they are generally much worn down, when fully developed they are slender for the greater part of their length, the front one curving backwards in an elegant sweep, and attai... |
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