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Sumatran Rhino
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| The greater part of the body is covered with bristles varying from red-brown to black. The hairy fringes of the ears and the body are lost with age. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The Twohorned Rhinoceros, like the Smaller Onehomed has a preference for forested hill tracts where it wanders up to considerable elevations. A sufficiency of shade and a good supply of water are essential to its habitat. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. The upheaval of the War and the unrest which followed it have left a few survivors in Burma, in Shwe-U-Daung, Arakan, the Pegu Yomas, Kahilu, Yuzal in the Uyu drainage, and the Tenasserim Peninsula. |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Kyan |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis : estimated number 21-45. |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Kyan-shaw |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The greater part of the body is covered with bristles varying from red-brown to black. The hairy fringes of the ears and the body are lost with age. |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the cold weather and rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs and shoots, and are very partial to fallen fruit, wild mangoes, citrous fruits, and figs. |
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| Tracks lead off in all directions from these wallows. They present the appearance of large tunnels hollowed through the dense undergrowth. Unlike the elephant, a rhinoceros does not break through the jungle but burrows its way through the dense tangle. |
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| Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 |
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| In the cold weather and rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs and shoots, and are very partial to fallen fruit, wild mangoes, citrous fruits, and figs. |
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