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| Title: |
The book of Indian animals |
| Author(s): |
Prater, S.H. |
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1980 |
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Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Names in vernacular
Asian Rhino Species
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Formerly extensively distributed in the Gangetic plain |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. The upheaval of the War and the unrest which followed it have left a few survivors in Burma, in Shwe-U-Daung, Arakan, the Pegu Yomas, Kahilu, Yuzal in the Uyu drainage, and the Tenasserim Peninsula. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Till the end of the last century the range of this species extended from the hill tracts of Assam, through the hill ranges of Tippera and Chittagong, into Arakan and Burma. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| In Assam in isolated areas of the plains. |
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World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The greater part of the body is covered with bristles varying from red-brown to black. The hairy fringes of the ears and the body are lost with age. |
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Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The horn is formed of a closely matted mass of horny fibre issuing from the skin. It has no connection with the skull, although a boss of bone in the skull may serve as its foundation. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Race of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in India: lasiotis (Buckland). |
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Twohorned Rhinoceros, like the Smaller Onehomed has a preference for forested hill tracts where it wanders up to considerable elevations. A sufficiency of shade and a good supply of water are essential to its habitat. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| As far as can be ascertained the Javan Rhinoceros is now extinct in India and Burma. |
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The book of Indian animals
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