 | Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou... |
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| Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re... |
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| Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Namibia. Its food consists of thorny twigs, twigs of Grewia and berries, milkbush and leaves of appletree, young camelthorn trees and fruit of 'Greesappel'. |
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| Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Namibia. Its food consists of thorny twigs, twigs of Grewia and berries, milkbush and leaves of appletree, young camelthorn trees and fruit of 'Greesappel'. |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| It favours the very heaviest types of evergreen forest and is usually found near the sources of streams in remote hill forests. It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills.
Unlike Rhinoceros sondaicus the Sumatran rhinoceros delights in s... |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| Burma. The Javan differs mainly from the Sumatran in its fondness for low-lying, swampy ground, and presumably also in being of a less active and alert disposition. |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou... |
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| Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 |
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Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re... |
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| Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills. |
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| Jeffreys, H. 1933 Elephants and rhinos. Field 162 (4206), 5 August 1933: 379 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
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| A large and small rhino at salt lick. Four elephants approach, small rhino disappears, the large rhino then charges the elephants with young, who remain where they are. Rhino stops his charge when about 10 yards from the elephants. |
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