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| Title: |
The book of Indian animals |
| Author(s): |
Prater, S.H. |
| Year published: |
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
Ecology - Habitat
Indian Rhino
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| Though it prefers swamp and grass the Great Indian Onehorned Rhinoceros is also found in wood jungle up ravines and low hills. |
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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 East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Kyan |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| What was believed to be the last surviving animal in Malaya was shot for the preservation of its entire remains in a museum in America. It is possible though not very likely that the species may still exist in some of the more remote and ill-explored tracts of the Malay Peninsula. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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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
Names in vernacular
Asian Rhino Species
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| Gainda |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Names in vernacular
Indian Rhino
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| Gargadan |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis : estimated number 21-45. |
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World
Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The horns grow throughout life and if lost are re-produced. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Taxonomy - Evolution
Indian Rhino
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| Three species of rhinoceros are found within our limits. Rhinoceros unicornis and its relative Rhinoceros sondaicus have an obscure genealogical history. No representatives of these true and typical rhinoceroses have been discovered anywhere but in south-eastern Asia. Their remains are not foun... |
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The book of Indian animals
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