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Lang, E.M. 1959. Ein Sumatra-Nashorn im Basler Zoo. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 7 (4): 177, fig. 1.

Ein Sumatra-Nashorn im Basler Zoo

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Location Sumatra Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Peter Ryhiner on 17 March 1959 near the Siak River in Central Sumatra caught a female Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in a catching boma.

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Location Sumatra Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

The animal now and then uttered a fine high whistling (feines, hohes Fiepen)

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Location Sumatra Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

The dung was thrown backwards with the hindfeet. Urine is first released in single spouts, then in a continuous current.

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Location Sumatra Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1959

arr. VII 1959, caught at Siak River, 17.III.1959 by Peter Ryhiner

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Location Sumatra Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Height at shoulder 112 cm, female in Basel 1957 from Sumatra

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D’Oyly, Charles 1829. Indian sports, No.2. [No place], Behar Lithographic Press. p. i, pls. 1-12.
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