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| Title: |
Travels in the East Indian Archipelago |
| Author(s): |
Bickmore, A.S. |
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1868 |
| Publisher: |
London, John Murray |
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pp. 1-555 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| This species of rhinoceros has two horns, the first being the longer and more sharply pointed, but the Java species has only one. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the valleyof the Musi, all the region we have been travelling in today on 27 April, abounds in rhinoceroses, elephants and deer. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| On our return from Agar Sumpur we noticed the tracks of a rhinoceros, tiger and deer which had all passed along that way last night. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Sumatran Rhino
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| The natives here know nothing of the frequent combats between these animals and elephants, that are so frequently pictured in popular works on natural history. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| Sumatra. The rhinoceros lives indifferently anywhere between the sea-shores and the tops of the highest peaks. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
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| In the path, from place to place, the natives had made pits 8 or 10 feet long, anbd about 3 wide and 5 or 6 deep. Each was covered over with sticks, on which dirt was laid, and any leaves were scattered over the whole so as to perfectly conceal all appearance of danger. It is so nearly of the p... |
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Travels in the East Indian Archipelago
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