--- title: Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sumatra is a long island in Indonesia where a tiger, a rhino, an elephant a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy… # Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris Lesson 162 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/0/) — Sumatra is a long island in Indonesia where a tiger, a rhino, an elephant and an orangutan all live in the same forest, and each of them is a smaller kind found nowhere else. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/1/) — Island animals often become smaller over many generations, perhaps because there is less room and less food, so Sumatra has the smallest living tiger, the smallest rhino and the smallest Asian elephants. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/2/) — Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or a bright colour can be a warning, and Sumatra's animals use all three, from a stinking flower to a loris with venom in its elbows. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/3/) — Much of the forest has been cleared for palm oil and paper plantations, so many of these animals are now very rare. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/4/) — The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Sumatra; fewer than about six hundred are thought to be left in the wild. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/5/) — The Sumatran rhino is the smallest rhino, has a hairy coat and is the only Asian rhino with two horns; fewer than about fifty are thought to survive. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/7/) — The titan arum blooms only once every few years, and when one blooms in a botanic garden crowds queue to see and smell it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/8/) — The sun bear is the smallest bear and has a very long tongue for licking honey and insects; its loose skin lets it twist round and bite a predator that grabs it from behind. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/9/) — Tarsiers are tiny primates whose each eye is about as big as their brain; they cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads almost all the way round. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/10/) — Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insects, spiders and small lizards. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/11/) — The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a gland on its arm and mixes the venom with its spit before it bites. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/12/) — Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/15/) — In 2017 scientists named the Tapanuli orangutan as a new species, the first new great ape named in nearly a hundred years, and fewer than eight hundred are thought to exist. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/16/) — Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/17/) — Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest. - ← previous: [Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower/) - next →: [Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)