Nardelli, F., 1985. The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2
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The quantity and distribution of the animal's hair varies from one to another, though it seems most abundant in young animals, and the skin on the face and within the deep folds running round the whole body is usually hairless. The ears are lined with specially thick hair and trimmed with a fringe of longer hairs - one of the animal's earlier Latin names, Rhinoceros lasiotis, might be translated as 'hairy-eared rhinoceros'. The hair, anything from off-white to black in colour, is also clustered in a band down the middle of the back, and on the belly and the outer sides of the legs.
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