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Title: Mammals from Borneo
Author(s): Banks, E.
Year published: 1978
Journal: Brunei Museum Journal
Volume: 4 (2)
Pages: 165-227, pls. 1-14
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Records from the Baram District showed that eighty Rhino horns were sold there in six years. I have talked to the Kenyah hunters who shot and sold these trophies : they laughed at the idea of getting such things in Sarawak then, they shot them over the border in Dutch Borneo - where no guns were...
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The Two-Horned Sumatran Rhinoceros was formerly found all over Sarawak, there are early records even from the Bau District close to Kuching.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Places to wallow in the mud were always necessary. I saw a good one in the Ular Bulu mountains on the water-shed between the Rejang river and the Mukah river.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Rear horn may reach 5 inches but is usually just a knob.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
Coming back from the top of Mulu, I found a Rhino had crossed our upward track it had made a prodigious leap and disappeared down a very awkward gully. The general opinion was it would not stop running all day. Rhinos may look clumsy and awkward but they are very strong and agile. The steepest...
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
The sight is said to be poor, the hearing fair.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves.
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture - Art
Asian Rhino Species
Borneo. You may laugh, but the Kenyah hunters vowed the young ones avoided the falling trees by taking refuge inside the mother's body and riding in safety with the head sticking out behind - and they made me a very nice wooden model too.
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