SUMATRAN RHINOS Sumatran rhinos are the
smallest rhinoceroses. They are only Asian rhino with
two horns. While surviving in possibly greater numbers than the
Javan rhino, Sumatran rhinos are more threatened due to habitat loss and fragmentation.
The Sumatran rhino once roamed as far away as the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and eastern India, through
Myanmar, Thailand, possibly to Vietnam and China, and south through the
Malay Peninsula. Recently, the last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia died of cancer and hence is now extinct in Malaysia. The species is down to about 80 individuals, all living in Indonesia islands of
Sumatra and Borneo.
