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| Title: |
Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java |
| Author(s): |
Franck, P.F. |
| Year published: |
1934 |
| Journal: |
Tropische Natuur |
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23 |
| Pages: |
76-79 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934
Height at shoulder 1600 mm |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Mr Hazewinkel gives a horn length of 37 cm and size of the base of 22 cm x 15 cm. Maybe could this be a misprint, the horn being 27 cm rather than 37 cm? His measurements differ considerably from those which we took of the old male of Tasikmalaja. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934
Horn length 215 mm, but it must be observed that the tip of the horn was abraded, which means that the real length of the horn of this old male must have been at least 250 mm.
Circumference of the horn at base was 565 mm, the diameter of the oval base ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. Weight of horn when fresh 986 grams, when dried 847 grams. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. The skull measurements of this old male (1) are compared to those (2) of an incomplete skeleton of a old male from Ujung Kulon, and (3) with an old skull from java, exact locality unknown, all present in the Buitenzorg Zoological Museum. All measures ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. Total weight was 2280 kg. In this case all parts of the meat and skeleton, as well as the sexual parts, were weighed with a transportable scale. The total weight of the skin was calculated in pikols (10 coolies were needed for the picoling of the skin... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Skeleton
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. Number of pairs of ribs (12+6) = 18, plus the four enlargements of the vertebrae. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. Tail 480 mm. |
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Ecology - Population
All Rhino Species
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| We know very little about the age of the rhinoceros. In Brehm it is recorded that an Indian rhinoceros in Barrackpore, calcutta was 45 years old and that other zoos had the same experience. If one adds a few years before the animal arrived in captivity, it is clear that the longevity can be up ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Skeleton
Javan Rhino
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| Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934.
Cervical vertebrae 7
Dorsal 22
Lumbar+ Sacral 5
Caudal 23
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Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java
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