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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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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
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| The type specimen of the hairy race of the Sumatran rhinoceros was a female, captured at Chittagong in the year 1868. When discovered by native hunters she was embedded in a quicksand, and well-nigh exhausted by her struggles to reach terra firma. By attaching ropes to her neck she was safely e... |
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Ecology - Habitat
Indian Rhino
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| As a matter of fact, the rhinoceros, like the Indian buffalo, makes regular tunnels, or 'runs,' among this gigantic grass; and from these retreats it may be driven out by beating with a line of elephants, or by tracking on foot. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| Morning and evening are the chief feeding-times, the heat of the day being generally passed in slumber. |
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Morphology - Horn
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| No one is likely to confound a 'rhino' with a giraffe, and yet these are the only two groups of living land animals furnished with a horn situated in the middle line of the skull. The horn of a giraffe is, however, very unlike the horn (or horns) of a rhinoceros, being composed of a boss of bone... |
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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
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| Although possessed of two horns, the Sumatran rhinoceros resembles its Asiatic brethren in having teeth in the front of the jaw, as well as by its folded skin, and has therefore nothing to do with the African representatives of the family. As compared with the other Asiatic species (exclusive of... |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
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| When driven into the open, the animal will often stand for a few minutes, shaking its ears, before it makes up its mind in which direction to flee. A calf and its mother always issue forth together, but the old bulls and cows keep mostly apart, although both may have their home in the same patch... |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Its usual height at the shoulder not being more than 4 to 4 ? feet, and the length from the tip of the muzzle to the root of the tail only about 8 feet. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island.; and it is probable that all the Asiatic representatives of the family will take readily to the water, although in Somaliland the African rhinoceros is found in absolutel... |
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| 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 encased in a small hoof-like nail... |
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| Like all its kindred, the great Indian rhinoceros loves a mud-bath, and when plastered over with the mud of some swamp or pool, looks a more than ordinarily unprepossessing creature. Its favourite haunts are generally in the neighborhood of swamps; and hilly districts are avoided. |
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