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Reference Base  The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a not... |
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The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis) |
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Peacock, E.H. |
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1931 |
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |
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35 (2) |
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446-448, figs. 1-2 |
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
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| Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Within a fortnight I saw three rhinoceros. The photo shows a male R.sumatrensis shot within the Sanctuary under the direction of the Local Government for museum purposes on 27 Oct 1930. The skin and skeleton have been presented to the Britsih Museum for mounting. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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| The three main peaks, Shwe-U-Daung, Nanmadawgyi, Nanmadawgalay are popularly supposed to be he abode of centain Nats (spirits) which are held in some reverence by the Shan villagers near the Sanctuary. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
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| There are fully ten other rhinoceros living in the Sanctuary. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
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| There is still some hope that a specimen or two of Rhinoceros sondaicus is to be found in the Shwe-u-Daung sanctuary. Tracks measuring 8 ? inches in diameter have been seen which correspond nearly to those of sondaicus in Mergui and Thaton. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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| Sanctuary extends over 126 square miles, 75% heavily afforested. The more elevated portions of the Sanctuary assume the form of a high watershed which stretches for about 10 miles at altitudes varying from 4000 ft to the 6223 ft of the Shwe-u-Daung peaks. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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| Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot. |
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