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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' |
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Lydekker, R. |
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1907 |
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London, Rowland Ward |
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pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
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Behaviour - Fighting
Javan Rhino
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| The Indian rhinoceros usually has one pair of upper and two of lower incisors; the outermost pair of' the latter being large, tusk-like, and projecting from the angles of the lower jaw, so as to make formidable weapons of offence. |
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Taxonomy
All Rhino Species
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| Diagnosis for Rhinocerotidae. Rhinoceroses are huge, clumsily-built animals, with long bodies, large heads surmounted by the aforesaid horn or horns, short and thick legs, and sparsely-haired or naked skins of great thickness. In all the living species there are three toes to each foot, each en... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island. |
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| According.to native reports, there exists in the Singpho country a rhinoceros of larger size than either the two-horned Rhinoceros sumatrensis or the single-horned R. sondaicus. For this animal the natives have a name distinct from those which they apply respectively to the two species just name... |
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Taxonomy - Evolution
Indian Rhino
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| Teeth of this type have been discovered in Madras and at Bunda, in the North-West Provinces, as well as in the river-gravels of the Narbada valley, and may be taken to indicate that the range of the species included these parts of India. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| its colour, which varies from earthy-brown to almost black, is. likewise different from that of either of the onehorned species. |
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Indian Rhino
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| the colour of the skin is blackish grey, showing more or less of pink on the margins of the folds. |
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Names in vernacular
Asian Rhino Species
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| Kyan-tsheng |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Kyeng |
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