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| For more than 10 years, scientists and experts had believed that only two areas in Borneo contained viable populations: Tabin Wildlife reserve amd Danum Valley region, both in SE Sabah. |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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| Government officials were considering legal protection and expansion of the Danum Valley Conservation Area, a stretch of virgin rainforest administered by a quasi-government organization called the Sabah Foundation. Part of a large timber concession that had been temporarily set aside for forest... |
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| If rhinos range widely, as is currently believed, it is probably due more to hunting pressures than to ecological needs. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| To implement the breeding of rhinos in captivity, the Sumatran Rhino Trust was set up in 1985 between the U.S. amd Indonesia zoo communities. Fter 8 years and an expenditure of nearly 3 million dollars, this well-intended effort to bring together and breed wild-caught Sumatran rhinos both in Ind... |
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| Galdikas, B.M.F.; Shapiro, G.L. 1994 A guidebook to Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan Tengah (Central Borneo), Indonesia. Jakarta, Orang Utan Foundation |
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| Bertschinger, H.J. 1994 Reproduction in black and white rhinos: a review: pp. 155-161, fig.1
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| The first rhinoceros ever to be born in captivity was a Sumatran rhino which was born in the Calcutta Zoo in 1894. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
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| When rhinos use an area, they create wide and obvious 'highways' along ridges and waterways, often with distinctive scrape marks and dung deposits. They follow these well established paths repeatedly and over long distances. As rhinos travel, they spend time feeding on leaves, stems and twigs, ... |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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| A high-pitched squeal put me on guard as the rhino turned his head in my direction. It was a strange, almost childlike sound coming from such a large animal. |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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| Rhinos also use salt licks and mineral springs, which are often located close to waterways where the soft ground allows easy identification. |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
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| Another distinctive trait is the habit of taking mud baths several times a day. Where they travel regularly, rhinos make wallows, or depressions in the soil, that often take on the shape of the animal. These wallows are filled with a clay 'broth' that covers the rhino's body with a layer of mud... |
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