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| Title: |
The book of Indian animals |
| Author(s): |
Prater, S.H. |
| Year published: |
1980 |
| Publisher: |
Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press |
| Volume: |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| Tracks lead off in all directions from these wallows. They present the appearance of large tunnels hollowed through the dense undergrowth. Unlike the elephant, a rhinoceros does not break through the jungle but burrows its way through the dense tangle. |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the cold weather and rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs and shoots, and are very partial to fallen fruit, wild mangoes, citrous fruits, and figs. |
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Taxonomy - Evolution
All Rhino Species
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| The various species of rhinoceros, all now confined to the Old World, differ remarkably from one another in structure. As a result of migrations during past epochs into different habitats and climates, and into new feeding grounds to which they became appear to have become adapted, the various s... |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| In distinction to the Great Indian Onehorned Rhinoceros the fold of skin before the shoulder is carried right across the back in this animal.
The hide is marked all over with a curious mosaic-like pattern. |
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
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| The skin in all the living forms is either thinly clad with hair or naked, and in all the Indian species the heavy hide in places is thrown into deep folds.
The skin of this massive creature is divided into great shields by heavy folds before and behind the shoulders and in front of the thighs. ... |
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Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
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| Its food consists chiefly of grass. |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| Its low-crowned grinding teeth indicate that it is a browser, indulging less in grazing than the Great Indian Onehorred Rhinoceros, whose armoury of high-crowned grinding teeth are peculiarly adapted to the mastication of grass. |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| Its low-crowned grinding teeth indicate that it is a browser, indulging less in grazing than the Great Indian Onehorred Rhinoceros, whose armoury of high-crowned grinding teeth are peculiarly adapted to the mastication of grass. |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| In distinction to the Great Indian Onehorned Rhinoceros the fold of skin before the shoulder is carried right across the back in this animal.
The hide is marked all over with a curious mosaic-like pattern. |
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Reproduction
Indian Rhino
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| The female attains sexual maturity in 4 years and the male when 7 years old. |
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The book of Indian animals
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