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Title: Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier
Author(s): Anderson, J.
Year published: 1872
Journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume: 1872 February 6
Pages: 129-132
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Asia - South Asia - India
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height; it has, a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. It is placed between the eyes, but its posterior bas...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The animal is remarkably quiet, considering that she is chained by her four feet between two trees. During night she becomes very restless, and on several occasions has contrived, by stretching her hind legs to the utmost, to reach a strongly b...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
The specimen examined is a young female that strayed into Chittagong in February 1869, when it was captured, and where it has remained till within the last few weeks. It has been brought to Calcutta by Mr. Jamrach of London, to whom I am indebted for my examination of this interesting animal. Mr....
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Asia - South Asia - India
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She has a peculiar habit of squirting out her urine to a great distance, s?nding it out behind her nearly twenty feet, a habit which may be the means by which the male is made aware of her presence in the dense recesses of her native forests, w...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Since writing the above, I have learned from my friend Lieut. Bourne that a smooth-skinned Rhinoceros is said by the Cossyahs to occur in their hills, two days' journey to the south of Charyolah. These men know Rhinoceros sondaicus, so that it seems very probable that R. sumatrensis extends into ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There is no previous record of this Rhinoceros having been found so far west* [* In the 'Mammals of India' it is stated to have been shot at as high a latitude as 23' N., near Sandoway, which, however, lies only between the 18th and 19th parallels N.] as Chittagong, about 92? E. long.; but I see ...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
[Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...
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