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Reference Base  The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of... |
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The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak |
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Hose, C. |
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1929 |
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London, H.F. and G. Witherby |
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pp. i-viii, 1-216 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire. |
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| During the course of this day's journey we were agreeably surprised to find a sort of ready-made path cleared, as far as one could guess, for our special benefit; on either side of the track the bushes were sprinkled with mud. On making enquiries I was told that a rhinoceros or some other large ... |
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Bornean Rhinoceros |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. He frequents the foothills below the mountains. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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| Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| Another story recounting how the Animals of the Jungle, observing Man's success, resolved upon a tuba-fishing of their own, the triruration of the root to be performed by ordinary chewing. Unhappily the only four-footed creatures who could deal with Derris elliptica without harm to the system, w... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
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| He comes down in the heat of the day to take his ease in what are called 'salt-licks', muddy baths formed by springs of saltish water. The clearing and the mud of the bushes were, as I was told, caused by the creature's trampling movement on his way home to his lair higher up the hills. My info... |
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