 | Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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| 400-600, sumatrensis |
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| Hussain, K.Z. 1985 Last live captive rhino of Bangladesh[in Bengali]. Bichitra 1985 January: 1-3, figs. 1-3 |
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| A two-horned rhino was caught somewhere in South Chittagong in January 1868. This was reported in a newspaper in Calcutta in February 1868. The rhino was taken to Chittagong town by Captain Hood and Mr Wicks shortly afterwards and then from Chittagong to London Zoo in 1872. Immediately after r... |
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| Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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| A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometers for several weeks |
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| The quantity and distribution of the animal's hair varies from one to another, though it seems most abundant in young animals, and the skin on the face and within the deep folds running round the whole body is usually hairless. The ears are lined with specially thick hair and trimmed with a frin... |
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| Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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| A preliminary survey has shown that the Torgamba district in the eastern part of Sumatra contains enough rhinos to make it a likely source of the first captures. This region has some of the last groups surviving in the lowlands, and the team will start work there in July 1985. The Field Supervi... |
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| Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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| For most of the time they are nocturnal, wandering about in a large territory, though the males seem to cover more ground than the females. |
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| Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 |
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| Verdicts on the rhino's hearing range from acute to rather poor, though most writers agree that it has a well-developed sense of smell, on which it must rely to help compensate for less good sight. |
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Ecology - Food
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| A good food supply may keep them in a feeding patch of about ten square kilometres for several weeks, as they browse on trees and shrubs, taking leaves, twigs, and any fruit in season. Records of their diet include over a hundred plant species from over forty families, though grasses, except for... |
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Morphology
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| The hair, anything from off-white to black in colour |
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Morphology - Horn
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| The horns, smaller in the female, match the body colour, usually a darkish grey. |
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