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Reference Base  Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, ... |
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Bombay Natural History Society's mammal survey of India, Burma and Ceylon: Report no. 29: Pegu |
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Wroughton, R.C. |
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1918 |
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |
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25 (3) |
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472-481 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
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| Bombay NHS Mammal Survey. Have found absolutely fresh tracks, but have not shot one. Very local. I think it is always a local animal in the most restricted sense. It lives for a week, a month, or considerably longer in an area of, say, three to four square miles, then moves to a considerable ... |
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Names in vernacular
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| Da du chaw |
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Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
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| Have found absolutely fresh tracks, but have not shot one. Very local. I think it is always a local animal in the most restricted sense. It lives for a week, a month, or considerably longer in an area of, say, three to four square miles, then moves to a considerable distance, returning often a... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
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| I have seen tracks of four Rhinos together, and have been told by a sahib that he has seen six of these animals together. So it seems that they are at times gregarious, though generally met with singly. (Any notes on this would be very interesting. The reason may be seasonal, connected with foo... |
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1918, Burma, which are worth from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500 to a native shikari. Every part of the animal is saleable. A good horn alone is worth from Rs. 800 to Rs. 1,000, and almost any horn is worth from Rs. 400 to Rs. 500 |
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