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| A pair will frequent a given area for a time and then move off, their movements being affected by the water supply. |
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| The night and early morning are spent in wandering about and feeding, the hot hours of the day in rest in some cool and shaded spot. |
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| Collections of dung found in particular places reveal a habit similar to that noticed with the Great Indian One horned Rhinoceros. |
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| They enter streams by night and also during the hot hours of the day. In suitable spots there are regular wallows or mud-baths in which the huge creatures roll much as buffaloes and pigs do. As a result of this habit their bodies are always well coated with mud. They visit the wallows singly, ... |
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| The Asiatic Twohorned Rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatrensis) was on the other hand widely distributed in the past. It was quite abundant in the Siwalik Hills in Pliocene times. It was a geological period when these animals, favoured by a genial climate, inhabited a broad forest belt which stretc... |
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| Male: height at shoulder, 4 ft. 4 ? in. (135 cm.) |
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| Little is known about their breeding habits but it is known that the young remain with the mother to a fairly advanced age. |
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| Male: girth behind the withers, a little over 7 ft. (215 cm.). |
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| Flynn, R.W. 1980 Endau Rompin - Sumatran rhinoceros. WWF Yearbook 1979-1980: 87-88 |
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| Payne, J. (compiler) 1980 Documents on first Sumatran rhino metapopulation management plan 1980. Compilation of reports, newspapers, correspondence and publications |
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