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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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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
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| In Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula it is replaced by a smaller, blacker, and less hairy form, which if distinct from the typical Sumatran animal (as is probably the case) should be known as R. sumatrensis niger. |
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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. Some female specimens even fall short of the foregoing dimensions, an old individual from the Malay Peninsula being only 3 feet 8 inches at th... |
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Indian Rhino
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| A male measured by General A. A. Kinloch stood 5 feet 9 inches at the shoulder, and was 10 ? feet in length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail; the tail itself being 2 feet 5 inches in length. Larger dimensions are, however, recorded, by Mr. Rowland Ward in Records of Big Game, in... |
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