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Title: |
Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras |
Author(s): |
Hagen, B. |
Year published: |
1881 |
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Ausland |
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1881 (28) |
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553-556 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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Balsdak |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood. |
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World
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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The rhinoceros always goes alone. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down. |
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