Scientific name:
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis

Natural spread:
Malaysia, Indonesia

co a shoulder-height of only 1,10-1,50 m is the Sumatra-rhinoceros the smallest representative of the rhinoceroses. It possesses two nose-horns, of which the rear one is trained however only as small back, in contrast to the other Asian representatives of the family (tank-rhinoceros, Java-rhinoceros). The skin resembles that of the tank-rhinoceroses, is however less pleated, d. h., the tail-pleat is missing completely and the shoulder-pleat is merely trained like the low part of a chain at the neck-underside and the sides of the neck. However, the crucial difference is in the Behaarung, from which low remains didn't remain anything with the other rhinoceroses until on vanishing. Sumatra-rhinoceroses are densely fleecy in its youth and in the age after all still sparsely hairy. At the ears, the animals possess even long hair-tuft.

Way of life The home this beside the Java-rhinoceros the most rarely and gefährdetsten is rhinoceros-type on South-Sumatra and Borneo, Thailand, few areas Burma and in the Malay preserve Sungei Dusun. they live in the dense mountain-forests and hilly jungle-landscapes there and always are in water-proximity. As there Tagtiere äsen it grass, leaves and instincts.

We know as well as nothing about the natural way of life of these animals since it hardly succeeds to track down a Sumatra-rhinoceros once. Presumably, the animals live in territories, that they mark through urine-depositing.

Continuance In its natural spread-area, the wood-economy turns into its fate if they should escape many there resident Chinese's hunt for its horn by chance. Because like the horn of the tank-rhinoceros, one attributes the Sumatra-rhinoceros's all sorts of magic strengths also to the one. So the total-continuance of the Sumatra-rhinoceros is estimated at only 300 animals, and it is threatened directly by the extermination. The Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen put the Sumatra-rhinoceros under its protection.