 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The large, odd shaped head is mostly full of nasal bones which give the Rhino a particularly well developed sense of smell. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The sight is said to be poor, the hearing fair. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| There they traveled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Rhino when feeding squeals to itself with pleasure and can be heard some way off. When wallowing it snorts and blows and also makes a plaintive sound rather like the swishing noise made by the wings of a Hornbill in flight. When suspicious it gives a loud snort, breathes heavily through the... |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The skin is said to be more than half an inch thick but the epidermis is very thin and I believe dries very quickly. There is a deep fold in the skin behind the shoulder and another not so deep, just in front of the hind quarters. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| In my time the few that were left lived far away in the hills and mountains, as high up as 7000 feet in the moss and rotan forest. |
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