![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sutlive, V.H. 1976 Obituaries for Tom Harrisson. Borneo Research Bulletin 8 (2): 61-83 |
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History
Sumatran Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
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| some, but unsure |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| < 12, after 1974 enquiries in detail |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| a few, accidently protected by communist guerilla |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| perhaps 30 ? |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Rhinos have been illegally hunted to death, mostly by far-ranging Iban and Kelabit-Muruts. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| I saw one fleetingly in the overland crossing between the Bahau headwaters amd the Apo Kayan, interior Kalimantam, in October 1945. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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Sumatran Rhino
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| All recent sightings of spoor only, and all of them in the largely uninhabited Segama-Kinabatangan upriver areas of eastern Sabah. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1975 Project 884: Sumatran rhinoceros - international conservation programme. WWF Yearbook 1974-1975: 170-171 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| rhino sighting. So I had to study all kinds of tracks and signs to learn something about the way of life of the Sumatran rhino. I did, of course, try very hard to get at least a glimpse of one. Once I sat on a small platform up a tree for more, than three weeks, eating only cold rice and dried... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| not more than 20 (perhaps 10) on island: none in Sarawak and Brunei, just possibly 1-2 in Kalimantan, the rest in Sabah - |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1975 Project 884: Sumatran rhinoceros - international conservation programme. WWF Yearbook 1974-1975: 170-171 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The terrain in the central parts of the reserve is steep and high and covered with sub-montane and damp moss forest. The trees are smaller, with beards of lichen on their branches, and the ground is covered with moss. It is here that the Sumatran rhinoceros is found, in what is possibly its las... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| Niah Caves. Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1975 Into the unknown. Wildlife 17 (4): 157-165, figs. 1-18, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1975 Sumatran reserve last hope for smallest rhinoceros. Tiger Paper 2 (4): 13 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1975 Shrinking rhino habitat in Sumatra. Oryx 13 (2): 121 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1975 Project 1064/65: Udjung Kulon Nature Reserve, Java. WWF Yearbook 1974-1975: 173-174 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Scott, P. 1975 A study of Sumatran rhinoceros. Tiger Paper 2 (2): 10, figs. 1-3 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Strien, N.J. van 1975 Rhino traps in the Gunung Leuser Reserve. Report no. 1, pp. 1-4 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Flynn, R.W. 1975 Pembahagian dan kajialam hayat badak kerbau (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) di semaenanjung Malaysia. Laporan Tahunan, Jabatan Perlindungan hidupan liar dan Taman Negara Semenanjung Malaysia [Annual Report Malaysia] 1975: 33-34 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Ecology
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 De status van de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Atjeh en op Noord-Sumatra. Panda Nieuws 10 (5): 53, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| 40-70 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 De status van de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Atjeh en op Noord-Sumatra. Panda Nieuws 10 (5): 53, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| On the basis of tracks and ecological data, Borner estimates the number of Sumatran rhino in Leuser as maximum 40-50 animals. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 25 years on: a look at endangered species. Oryx 12 (3): 341-346, figs. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| 44 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 10-20, some of which may move across the Burmese and Malayan frontiers and be counted in their totals |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 24 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 45-85. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 8-15 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 De status van de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Atjeh en op Noord-Sumatra. Panda Nieuws 10 (5): 53, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| 25 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 De status van de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Atjeh en op Noord-Sumatra. Panda Nieuws 10 (5): 53, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the Langkat reserve, there are probably only a few Sumatran rhinos. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 Hoe staat de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Sumatra er voor?. Panda Nieuws 10 (2): 11-12, fig. 1 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| In G. Leuser under WWF project 884. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacKinnon, J. 1974 In search of the red ape. New York, Ballantine Books, pp. i-xiv, 1-211 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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Sumatran Rhino
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| One of the rarest animals of the forest was the two-horned rhino, much prized for its fabled horns which are supposed to have great healing properties and act as a powerful aphrodisiac. At the turn of the century the rhino was not uncommon in the Segama area and they were often hunted by Dusuns w... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 25 years on: a look at endangered species. Oryx 12 (3): 341-346, figs. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| The Javan rhino is one of the success stories. Thanks to vigorous intervention of SSC and the help of the Geigy Foundation, Ujung Kulon has been provided with a continuing scientific presence, and numbers have increased. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sandilands, B. 1974 Rhino sightings in Sabah. Borneo Research Bulletin 6 (2): 56 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Survey of Ulu Karamuak. Rhino evidence found in 1960. Undisturbed by logging. In 1972 surveyed the area and after a five day search in all directions, found no evidence of rhino. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 De status van de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Atjeh en op Noord-Sumatra. Panda Nieuws 10 (5): 53, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the forests of Torgamba the existence of Sumatran rhino is threatened by logging and cultivation. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacKinnon, J. 1974 In search of the red ape. New York, Ballantine Books, pp. i-xiv, 1-211 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Only a week before Herman had found trcaks of rhinoceros a little way downstream. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 Hoe staat de Sumatraanse neushoorn in Sumatra er voor?. Panda Nieuws 10 (2): 11-12, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| The young Swiss biologist Markus Borner has been a year in Gunung Leuser and made several expeditions, 600 km on foot, 300 km in a canoe, 2000 km by car and 1260 km by plane or helicopter. The most important rhino areas can be reached on foot or by helicopter. The local hunters only know the ar... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceros unicornis. There may also still be a handful just over the border into Burma. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 Project 884: Sumatran rhinoceros - conservation. WWF Yearbook 1973-1974: 178-180 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 Discovery in Sumatra. Oryx 12 (3): 303 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1974 Reserve for Sumatran rhino. Oryx 12 (4): 408 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1974 Javan rhino poachers defeated. Oryx 12 (5): 517 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1974 Sumatran rhino in Thailand?. Oryx 12 (5): 543 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1974 An introduction to the mammals of Singapore and Malaya. Singapore, Malayan Nature Society Singapore Branch, pp. i-xi, 1-340 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1974 Project 839/840: Udjung Kulon Nature Reserve, Java: scientific program and management. WWF Yearbook 1973-1974: 176-178 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Strien, N.J. van 1974 De Sumatraanse neushoorn. Panda Nieuws 10 (6): 61-64, figs. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Heniger, J. 1973 De eerste nederlandse wetenschappelijke reis naar Oost-Indie, 1599-1601. Leids Jaarboekje 1973: 27-49 |
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Asia - South East Asia
History
All Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Badak berendam |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Like all rhinoceroses, with a thick skin, thinly clad with hair, the hair in this species being more abundant than usual. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The skin thrown into deep folds, the one behind the shoulder being carried across the back. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Badak |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Robinson, A.M.Lewin 1973 The letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas from the Cape and elsewhere, 1793-1803 together with her journal of a tour into the interior and certain other letters Newly edited with an introduction and notes. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, pp. i-xv, 1-303 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Mammal fauna very poor. No rhinoceros recorded. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Like all rhinoceroses, with a thick skin, thinly clad with hair, the hair in this species being more abundant than usual. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. hairs brown or black. Skin brown to almost black |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacKinnon, J. 1973 Orang-utans in Sumatra. Oryx 12 (2): 234-242, fig. 1, map 1, tables 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Survey North Sumatra. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. In 1970, Fred Kurt found rhino tracks near Lau Djohar, but villagers say that no rhinos have visited the area since. I found no traces anywhere, although twice during my stay villagers reported seeing rhino beside the Alas river north of Kutatjan... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. hairs brown or black. Skin brown to almost black |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. the nose bears the horns, some distance apart, and not always well developed. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| the species will ascend mountains, moving up slopes which are steep to a man; and I have seen tracks at 10,000 feet. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The feet bear three troes, each ending in a hoof-like nail. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The feet bear three troes, each ending in a hoof-like nail. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. the nose bears the horns, some distance apart, and not always well developed. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The skin thrown into deep folds, the one behind the shoulder being carried across the back. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Length of tail c 500 mm, Borneo |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Length of Body 2 m, Borneo |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Weight c 1 ton, Borneo |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1973 Progress report 2 Province Aceh. Zuerich, Arbeitsgruppe fur Wildforschung |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1973 Progress report 3 Sumatran rhinoceros. Zuerich, Arbeitsgruppe fur Wildforschung |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Borner, M. 1973 Progress report 4: Sumatran rhinoceros. Zuerich, Arbeitsgruppe fur Wildforschung |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Height at shoulder up to 1.2 m, Borneo |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R. 1973 Operatie neushoorn, 'Operasi badak', op het spoor van een der zeldzaamste dieren ter wereld. Zwolle, La Riviere and Voorhoeve, pp. 1-213 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1973 Javan rhinos increase. Oryx 12 (2): 179 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kurt, F. 1973 Der Gunung Leuser Survey 1970. Zeitschrift des Kolner Zoo 16 (2): 59-74, figs. 1-22, tables 1-5 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Scheygrond, A. 1973 Is de Javaanse neushoorn behoed voor uitsterven?. Panda Nieuws 9 (7/8): 65-67, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Angst, W. 1973 A Javan Rhino bit my brother. Animals 15 (9): 388-394, figs. 1-7 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Strien, N.J. van 1973 Sumatraanse neushoorns. Tong Tong (WWF Holland) 1973 March: 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Conservation
Asian Rhino Species
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1973 Project 839/840: Protection and management of the Udjung Kulon National Park for the Javan rhinoceros and other species. WWF Yearbook 1972-1973: 128-132 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology
Javan Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Appell, G.N. 1973 Mammals of Borneo whose survival is threatened. Borneo Research Bulletin 5 (2): 64-66 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kurt, F. 1973 Project 884: Ecology of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Gunung Leuser. WWF Yearbook 1972-1973: 132-133 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology
Sumatran Rhino
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Scheygrond, A. 1972 De Goenoeng Leuser-reservaten (Atjeh en Noord Sumatra). Zoo Anvers 37 (4): 195-203, figs. 1-2, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 26, cf. Kurt report |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Scheygrond, A. 1972 De Goenoeng Leuser-reservaten (Atjeh en Noord Sumatra). Zoo Anvers 37 (4): 195-203, figs. 1-2, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 60-100, cf. Kurt report. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lekagul, B. 1972 Sumatran rhinos killed in Chaiyaphoom Province. Conservation News SE Asia 1972 Winter: 48, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| 26 |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Scheygrond, A. 1972 De Goenoeng Leuser-reservaten (Atjeh en Noord Sumatra). Zoo Anvers 37 (4): 195-203, figs. 1-2, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| There is no certainty about continued existence of Rhinoceros sondaicus in Northern Sumatra, where it occurred previously. Kurt found a footprint which appeared too large to belong to Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, but no further conclusions can be made. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lekagul, B. 1972 Sumatran rhinos killed in Chaiyaphoom Province. Conservation News SE Asia 1972 Winter: 48, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| The forest department recently received word that 3 Sumatran Rhino had been killed in Chaiyaphoom Province in the northeastern part of Thailand. This news was received with some scepticism at first, since Sumatran rhinos had not been reported from the north-east in many years; later investigatio... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Chaiyaphum Province, in north-east Thailand (16?N., 101?E.) (1 on map), is far from any previously reported rhinoceros localities. In 1967 a report that one had been killed in the Petchabun Mountains of Chaiyaphum was greeted with some scepticism, but it was reinforced in 1970 when another rhin... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| The Forest Reserve, lying roughly between 16?10' - 16?30' N. and 101?25' - 101?75' E., is shaped something like Australia, about 55 kilometres from east to west and 36 north to south; the eastern 60 % of the Reserve forms a dish-like plateau, with the edges rising from the 300-metre plain to 1100... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lekagul, B. 1972 Sumatran rhinos killed in Chaiyaphoom Province. Conservation News SE Asia 1972 Winter: 48, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Sumatran rhinos are also rumored to exist in Krabi and Trang provinces. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| With this combination of economic and political pressures, the Thailand rhinos are definitely on their way to extinction, and strong, possibly unpopular, steps are necessary. These should include:
An absolute ban on the sale or possession of any rhino parts; Enforcement of the game laws, with s... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| The Tenasserirn Range forms an interesting zoogeographical boundary, with the Burmese (western) slope covered in tropical rain forest while most of the Thai (eastern) slope is dry deciduous forest. On the Thai side annual dry-season burning by the local people causes a lack of water and green ve... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lekagul, B. 1972 Sumatran rhinos killed in Chaiyaphoom Province. Conservation News SE Asia 1972 Winter: 48, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Sumatran rhinos are also rumored to exist in Krabi and Trang provinces. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Between the Tenasserim and the Malay border are Krabi and Trang Provinces (3 on map), where rhino have been reported by local villagers who insist that they are Javan ('raat' in Thai), not Sumatran ('krasoo'). Both provinces, being sparsely populated and covered with tropical rain forest, are su... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Hislop (1965) indicated that there were three to six Sumatran rhinos along the Thai border, with one or two in Perak, bordering on Yala Province (4 on map), and two to four in Kedah, bordering on Songkhla (5 on map). Some of these might occasionally cross the border into Thailand, but this area ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lekagul, B. 1972 Sumatran rhinos killed in Chaiyaphoom Province. Conservation News SE Asia 1972 Winter: 48, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Sumatran rhino exist in Tenasserim in Burma, and Karen tribesmen have reported sighting on the Thai side of the border. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Hislop (1965) indicated that there were three to six Sumatran rhinos along the Thai border, with one or two in Perak, bordering on Yala Province (4 on map), and two to four in Kedah, bordering on Songkhla (5 on map). Some of these might occasionally cross the border into Thailand, but this area ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Of the two rhinos formerly found in Thailand, the Javan is believed now to be extinct there, although the authors of this survey report that some villagers in southern Thailand insist that the rhinos in their area are Javan. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Rhino hunting is strictly forbidden in Thailand, with a maximum penalty of one year in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Such penalties, however, have never been imposed; the hunter who shot the Sumatran rhino in Chaiyaphum in 1970 was fined $2.50. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| The Sumatran rhino is in desperate straits, with poaching a major threat - not surprisingly when a dead animal can be sold for the equivalent of up to twenty years' wages for a farmer. Their decline is largely due to human factors beginning at least 50,000 years ago (Martin and Wright).
The rhi... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
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| Raat |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Krasoo |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| The horn is used for everything from painkiller to easing childbirth, but the most popular use is as an aphrodisiac among elderly Chinese men. |
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