A video grab released by Malaysian WWF on April 24, 2007 shows a rare two-horned Borneo rhino in the Malaysian jungle of Sabah, Borneo. One of the world's rarest rhinos has been caught on film for the first time on Borneo island, wildlife officials said on Tuesday as they showed footage of the animal eating, walking about and sniffing the camera.
Malaysian officials of global conservation organisation WWF said the two-minute video, recorded in February by a camera hidden in the jungle, was the first to capture the behaviour of the elusive two-horned Borneo rhino in the wild.
There are only between 25 and 50 of the rhinos left alive in the dense jungles deep in the heart of the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo, and the animals are so secretive that the first still picture of one was only taken last year, the WWF said.
Borneo Rhino, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni, is a subspecies of the Sumatran rhino and the smallest and hairiest of all the rhinos. It can weigh from 600 to 800kg (1,300 to 1,800 lb).
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