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| Title: |
Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity |
| Author(s): |
Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. |
| Year published: |
1958 |
| Journal: |
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |
| Volume: |
55 (1) |
| Pages: |
157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| Shwe-U-Daung, 2, some say 3 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| in small and diminishing numbers |
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Captive - Europe
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| Basel Zoo, 1957. Photo of calf, two weeks old, following its mother in the paddock. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| It may be recalled that Mr. R.C. Morris who led an expedition to Malaya on behalf of Mr. A.S. Vernay to procure a specimen for the American Museum of Natural History [New York] in 1935 returned empty-handed without even seeing any footprints except Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, or obtaining any other... |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Indian Rhino
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| Basel Zoo, 1956, male calf. Soon after birth the colour of the skin was almost violet, After some days the skin colour changed to the normal grey-brown of the adult, although the joints of the armour showed up reddish. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| sondaicus present |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rajmahal Hills, Bihar |
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Location:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Thanks to the helpful co-operation of Mr. Loke Wan-Tho of Singapore, we reproduce two unique photographs of [the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus]. According to The Straits Times of Singapore (March 22, 1957) where the photographs were first published, they were taken b... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Theodore Hubback, during his term as Chief Game Warden, after prolonged search in Malaya found a single living example which he was so convinced was the last of its species (and mateless) that he permitted it to be shot for some American Museum ?in the interest of science.' |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Mr. E.O. Shebbeare who followed Hubback as Game Warden in Malaya for several years before the war did not even see the tracks of this rhinoceros [R. sondaicus]. |
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Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity
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