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Title: Begegnungen mit Sumatranashornern, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814)
Author(s): Grummt, W.
Year published: 1998
Journal: Milu, Berlin
Volume: 9
Pages: 354-362, figs. 1-9
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis extinct in Assam.
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Asia
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
less than 300
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Asia
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
539-991, cf. Khan 1988
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
extinct in Burma
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
animal seen
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
32 yrs 8 months, female in London Zoo from 1872
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Europe
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Rauhohrnashorn
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World
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Height at shoulder max. 150 cm
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
The colour varies from black to brown-red. Female in San Diego (arr. 1988) had a remarkably red colour. Male in Cincinnati (Ipoh) is black on back and sides. In Sungei Dusun Breeding Centre there is a female with remarkably black hairs. Animals in the Centre in Sabah were dark brown.
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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
Two subspecies recognized by Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1966): sumatrensis from Sumatra and Borneo, and lasiotis (Buckland, 1872) if SE Asian mainland. Gray (1873) named niger from Malaya, but = lasiotis. Groves (1965) named harrissoni from Borneo. Although Groves separated niger and lasiotis ...
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