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Captive - Asia |
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Captivity - Zoo Records |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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with photo. Subur in Copenhagen Zoo was originally caught near Pekanburu, in western Sumatra, in the lowland rain-forest of the Siak-Kampar drainage not far south of the equator. Also trapped on the same collecting were two other females and a young male. One female died in the jungle, the male escaped, and the surviving female - perhaps Subur's close relative - was brought back to be kept in special quarters built in the grounds of the presidential palace at Bogor, in Java. There I photographed her late in 1960. Her original compound, largely denuded of trees, had proved too exposed and she was living in a fenced-off section of a smaller, shadier enclosure. Most of the ground had been trodden into mud. In one corner she had developed a wallow, where most of her time was spent.
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Subur's sister?
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