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Video Shows Endangered Sumatran Rhino

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:06:56 PM

In this undated, but recent, video frame grab image provided by the World Wildlife Fund, a rare Sumatran rhino makes his way through the jungles of Sabah state in Malaysia. The rhino has been filmed eating, walking and sniffing at a camera, giving a privileged glimpse into the endangered animal's behavior, conservationists said Tuesday, April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/World Wildlife Fund)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Sumatran rhino has been filmed eating, walking and sniffing at a camera in the jungles of Borneo, giving a privileged glimpse into the endangered animal's behavior, conservationists said Tuesday.

The World Wildlife Fund said in a statement that the two-minute clip — taken with a special video camera set up in the rain forest of Malaysia's Sabah state — was "the first-ever footage of observing the behavior in the wild of one of the world's rarest rhinos."

However, SOS Rhino, a Chicago-based wildlife foundation, said in September last year that wildlife rangers on one of its expeditions had taken a video clip and photos of a single male Sumatran rhino, also in Sabah, after a decade-long search.


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