Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Within a fortnight I saw three rhinoceros. The photo shows a male R.sumatrensis shot within the Sanctuary under the direction of the Local Government for museum purposes on 27 Oct 1930. The skin and skeleton have been presented to the Britsih Museum for mounting.
The three main peaks, Shwe-U-Daung, Nanmadawgyi, Nanmadawgalay are popularly supposed to be he abode of centain Nats (spirits) which are held in some reverence by the Shan villagers near the Sanctuary.
There are fully ten other rhinoceros living in the Sanctuary.
Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
There is still some hope that a specimen or two of Rhinoceros sondaicus is to be found in the Shwe-u-Daung sanctuary. Tracks measuring 8 ? inches in diameter have been seen which correspond nearly to those of sondaicus in Mergui and Thaton.
Sanctuary extends over 126 square miles, 75% heavily afforested. The more elevated portions of the Sanctuary assume the form of a high watershed which stretches for about 10 miles at altitudes varying from 4000 ft to the 6223 ft of the Shwe-u-Daung peaks.
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
Burma. R. sumatrensis spends most of its time in the heaviest forest it can find and only occasionally climbs onto the open grass-clad ridges and spurs which are a feature of the sanctuary at elevations above 4000 feet.
sumatrensis wander generally in pairs, and a former experience was duplicated in that the mate returned to the body of the one killed a few minutes after the shooting, and had to be driven off by a shot fired over the head.
Male shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. much rubbed and worn horns of which the front horn is 7 inches in length along the curve from base to tip.
Animal shot in Burma for BMNH in 1930. Height 4 ft 5 inches (male)
