 Reference Base  Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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 | Enriquez, C.M.D. 1927 Malaya: an account of its people, flora, and fauna. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvi, 1-303 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Specimen. Locality: Taiping, Malaysia. Confiscated. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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| Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Only two specimens of Rhinoceros sondaicus known from the Malay Peninsula. The first of these is the (locally) famous ?Pinjih Rhino' which was shot by Mr. (now Sir) George W. Maxwell in the Pinjih Valley of the Kinta District of Perak in 1899. This was a bull, 5 ft 5 + inches high at the should... |
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| Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| This is one of two known examples of Rhinoceros sondaicus in Malaysia. It is a cow that was killed at Kuala serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak on 16 April 1924. As this rhinoceros was shot by a person without a license and no report of the matter was made to the authorities the skull and head-skin... |
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| Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus only known from two examples, see Pinjih valley and Kuala Serukoi. |
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| Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Both the specimens killed at Pinjih in 1899 and at Kuala Serukoi in 1924 seem to have been extremely savage and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih beast had been the terror of its valley from long before the British occupation (1874) and it was only large and well armed parties that venture... |
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| Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Malaysia. The Pinjih animal ( Rhinoceros sondaicus shot in 1899) was kramat: the Malays credited it with supernatural powers and imagined it to be protected against all danger by a guardian spirit. It often happens that an animal which attaches itself to one locality and establishes a reputatio... |
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| Wells, C. 1927 Six years in the Malay jungle. London, Heinemann, pp. i-xiii, 1-261 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Two species of rhinoceros are known. The smaller two-horned species at one time formed an article of export from the Dindings. Of the one-horned Javan variety only three or four individuals from the southern districts of Perak are extant in collections. It appears to be dying out. |
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| Wells, C. 1927 Six years in the Malay jungle. London, Heinemann, pp. i-xiii, 1-261 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Two species of rhinoceros are known. The smaller two-horned species at one time formed an article of export from the Dindings. Of the one-horned Javan variety only three or four individuals from the southern districts of Perak are extant in collections. It appears to be dying out. |
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| Wells, C. 1927 Six years in the Malay jungle. London, Heinemann, pp. i-xiii, 1-261 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Two species of rhinoceros are known. The smaller two-horned species at one time formed an article of export from the Dindings. Of the one-horned Javan variety only three or four individuals from the southern districts of Perak are extant in collections. It appears to be dying out. |
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| Wells, C. 1927 Six years in the Malay jungle. London, Heinemann, pp. i-xiii, 1-261 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| It appears to be dying out. Like the elephant, the rhinoceros is much persecuted, as its horn and almost every portion of its anatomy command large prices from Chinese medicine dealers. |
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