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Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), family Rhinocerotidae, Sumatra, Indonesia

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Markus Hofmeyr

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Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

Photo by redape_oz

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Prehistoric Animals and Plants

by Josef Beneš illustrated by Zdeněk Burian 1979

Dicerorhinus etruscus (The age of mammoths)

Coelodonta antiquitatis (The age of mammoths)

Homotherium (The age of mammoths)

Panthera spealea (The age of mammoths)

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Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - Sumatran Rhinoceros

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Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

Photo by Kat Jenkinson

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Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

Photo by Bill Konstant

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#2797 - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - Sumatran Rhino

A very rare specimen, gifted to the Otago Museum by the Museum of Calcutta in 1889. Or at least, they sent a rolled up skin and some bones in 1889 - the museum didn't get around to preparing it for display until around 1920.

AKA hairy rhinoceros or Asian two-horned rhinoceros. One of five living rhino species, and one of three that are critically endangered. Forerly found in rainforests, swamps and cloud forests from India, to southwestern China, to Indonesia. By 2003 hunting and habitat destruction had reduced it to five populations in Malaysia and Indonesia, and since then we've lost the Malaysian and one of the Indonesia populations as well. In 2004, all five rhinos at the Sumatran Rhinoceros Conservation Center died over an 18-day period after becoming infected by the trypanosome disease surra. Captive breeding of the species has had very poor results.

Very vocal animals - in the wild and in captivity nearly constantly eeping, whale-calling, and whistle-blowing. They also twist saplings, apparently to mark trails for other rhinos.

Otago Museum, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Critically endangered Sumatran rhino born on Indonesian island

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A critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been born on Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra, the second born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that numbers fewer than 50 animals. A female named Delilah gave birth to a 25kg male calf at a sanctuary for Sumatran rhinos in Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province, at the southern tip of Sumatra island. The calf was fathered by a male named Harapan, who was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2006. He was the last Sumatran rhino in the world to be repatriated to Indonesia, meaning that the entire population of Sumatran rhinos is now in Indonesia.

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