File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Aborigines inhabiting these regions have told me of the presence of a few rhino on the western slopes of Gunong Benom and at a frequently used salt lick high up in the Ulu Klau Ketchil.
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries.
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
Reports from Ulu Perak, Gunong Chamah in Kelantan, the Kerau Reserve and two other localities in Pahang, and the Johore coast south of Mersing are of one or two animals only. Those may be wanderers with little chance of contributing to an increase in population.
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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In the upper reaches of the Perak River in the hilly country bordering Thailand there seem to be some rhino but it has not been possible to fix their number; the tracks of one mature animal were seen in 1964.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1968 Sumatran rhinoceros. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 49-50, pls. 9-11
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photo by Mohamed Khan of rhino in Ulu Selama, Perak.
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries.
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File AvailableBasjarudin, H. 1968 Problems of national parks and reserves in Indonesia and emerging countries: pp. 386-393, map 1

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran rhino present
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
It is in the Bintang Hijau Forest Reserve in northern Perak and the contiguous Gunong Inas Forest Reserve in south Kedah, that we find the highest concentration of rhinoceros known in Malaya. The rocky inhospitable terrain, containing a series of precipitous 4000 to 6000 foot mountains, is well-...
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File AvailableLekagul, B. 1968 Threatened species of fauna of Thailand: pp. 267-271

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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It is not too pessimistic to say that they have already been wiped out although a very few may survive in secluded corners on the Tenasserim range. Karen hunters have brought horns and parts of their carcasses for sale at Karnchanaburi market each year during the past few years. To make a surve...
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
Reports from Ulu Perak, Gunong Chamah in Kelantan, the Kerau Reserve and two other localities in Pahang, and the Johore coast south of Mersing are of one or two animals only. Those may be wanderers with little chance of contributing to an increase in population.
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
The Krau Game Reserve in Central Pahang is also imperfectly known since no exploration has been done there since before 1941 at which time an adult rhino frequented certain salt licks in the southern quarter. Aborigines inhabiting these regions have told me of the presence of a few rhino on the ...
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
During the past five years the face of Malaya has altered considerably in more ways than one, but the expansion of rural development, necessary as it may be to a growing nation, has created very serious problems in the field of wildlife conservation. The two most threatened species are the Sumat...
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The species has come to its present precarious position through many years of persecution for its horn, and other body products to be used as medicine. Although the supply is all but finished the demand still remains, so the danger of losing more animals to unscrupulous poachers is as real as ev...
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Areas where rhino have been reported - positive, possible and suspected.
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File AvailableHislop, J.A. 1968 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya's vanishing species: pp. 278-283, figs. 6-7

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
The former King George V National Park, now known as Taman Negara, contains large tracts of land in all three of the above-mentioned states, and there is irrefutable evidence of the presence of rhinoceros within that part of Pahang and also in a high remote region in South Kelantan. Last year a ...
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File AvailableStevens, W.E. 1968 The rare large mammals of Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 10-17, fig. 1, table 1
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Sumatran Rhino
There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries.
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File AvailableSchenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1968 The first Javan rhino calf. Oryx 9 (6): 397
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The footprints of a calf only 3-5 months old together with those of a one year old rhino were seen this year. This is cheering news, as one of the disturbing facts about this last surviving population is that no calf had been seen for some years. A census showed 20-29 animals.
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File AvailableSchaurte, W.T. 1968 Threatened species of rhinoceros in tropical S.E. Asia: pp. 284-293

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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1965, Dr. Lee Talbot (1965), in carrying out a survey of the Udjung Kulon Reserve at the request of the Indonesian Government with particular attention to the Javan Rhino, reported that there were still rhino, probably several dozen though the number might well be less, living in the reserve. At...
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File AvailableLekagul, B. 1968 Threatened species of fauna of Thailand: pp. 267-271

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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They have been killed for their horns.
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File AvailableLekagul, B. 1968 Threatened species of fauna of Thailand: pp. 267-271

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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It is not too pessimistic to say that they have already been wiped out although a very few may survive in secluded corners on the Tenasserim range.
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File AvailableStrickland, D.L 1968 Rhino report. Malayan Nature Journal 21 (1): 80-81
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Sumatran Rhino
Even though I have found tracks measuring at many intervals between 16 and 23 cm, the variability of track size even following the same animal makes the method of doubtful use in differentiating between animals of approximately the same size.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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1968, Malaysia, dung readily bought
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File AvailableMedway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Both species of rhinoceros are believed by both the Malays and Chinese to be a 'miracle animal' and that all parts of the animals have some medicinal value to cure all kinds of illness. It is believed that scrapings made into a brew and taken will cure cancer and other diseases.
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File AvailableStrickland, D.L 1968 Rhino report. Malayan Nature Journal 21 (1): 80-81
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Asian Rhino Species
Even though I have found tracks measuring at many intervals between 16 and 23 cm, the variability of track size even following the same animal makes the method of doubtful use in differentiating between animals of approximately the same size.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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1968, Malaysia, blood, M$ 45 per ounce
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File AvailableAnonymous 1968 Patrouilleboot voor Udjung Kulon. Panda Nieuws 4 (11/12): 8
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File AvailableAnonymous 1968 Saving the Javan rhino. Oryx 9 (5): 340-341, pls. 3-8
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File AvailableAnonymous 1968 Sumatran rhinoceros. Malayan Nature Journal 22 (1): 49-50, pls. 9-11
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Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMedway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Asian Rhino Species
1968, Malaysia, M$ 350 per ounce
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File AvailableByleveld, M.F.I.J. 1968 De activiteiten van WWF in 1966-1967. Panda Nieuws 4 (11/12): 1-6, figs. 1-5
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File AvailableDrewes, G. 1968 New light on the coming of Islam to Indonesia?. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 124 (4): 433-459
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Sumatran rhino sets problem. Animals 9 (9): 511
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3
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Neushoorns II. Artis, Amsterdam 13 (4): 111
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Sumatran Rhino
10-30
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File AvailableShuttleworth, C. 1967 Malayan safari. London, Phoenix House, pp. 1-156
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Sumatran Rhino
Last known death of rhino in Malaya occurred in Ulu Tiram estate in South Johor. In 1948 the animal was shot by 2 europeans, who were fined $100.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Boat for rhino reserve in Malaya. Oryx 9 (3): 187
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Sumatran Rhino
family of 3, 2 adults and 1 young
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File AvailableShuttleworth, C. 1967 Malayan safari. London, Phoenix House, pp. 1-156
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Sumatran Rhino
One Chinese hunter was arrested recently in the Endau area of Northern Johore for trapping and killing a two-horned rhino with the help of aborigines.
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File AvailableStrickland, D.L 1967 Ecology of the rhinoceros in Malaya. Malayan Nature Journal 20 (1/2): 1-17, pls. 1-2, fig. 1
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Sumatran Rhino
Reported that a permit for trapping of rhino in the Ulu Bernam Reserve had been issued on behalf of the National Zoo. Apart from the considerations as to the suitability of zoos in general as conservation projects, he considered that it was thoroughly improper to start a trapping project in a re...
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File AvailableShuttleworth, C. 1967 Malayan safari. London, Phoenix House, pp. 1-156
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Sumatran Rhino
We saw one, in the Johore-pahang border in the Ulu Endau area.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Sumatran rhino sets problem. Animals 9 (9): 511
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Sumatran Rhino
The Malayan Zoological Society decided to capture one of three Sumatran Rhinos from Sungei Dusun. They were felt to be threatened by poachers and by drainage schemes which have shrunk the amount of suitable habitat available to them. International Conservation bodies, notably WWF and IUCN, prot...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Neushoorns II. Artis, Amsterdam 13 (4): 111
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Sumatran Rhino
On the borders of Sungei Dusun thousands of hectares of forest is logged, and there are plans to log even within the reserve. The forests are administered by the federal government, while the reserve is proclaimed by the local government of Selangor.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Boat for rhino reserve in Malaya. Oryx 9 (3): 187
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Sumatran Rhino
A grant of US$ 500 from FPS/WWF Revolving Fund has enabled the game department to install an outboard-engine in the boat built for the use of rangers policing the reserve.
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File AvailableShuttleworth, C. 1967 Malayan safari. London, Phoenix House, pp. 1-156
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Sumatran Rhino
Photos taken by Bazin possibly Dicerorhinus sumatrensis.
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File AvailableHatting, T. 1967 Animal bones from the tombs of Bang Site settlement, Ban Kao: pp. 155-164

In: Anonymous The Thai-Danish prehistoric expedition 1960-62, Archaeological excavations in Thailand, vol 2: Ban Kao, neolithic settlements with cemetaries in the Kanchanaburi Province. Copenhagen, Munksgaad: pp. 1-164, pls. 1-140
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Ban Kao is in West Central Thailand, on the river Kwae Noi. Excavation of neolothic site, 1800-1500 BC. Found 2nd phalanx of side toe, in Burial BK.I.B.1 and fragment of upper molar, in Burial BK.I. B.17. Allocated to Rhinoceros sp. They may have been hunted in the neolithic period since bone...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Sumatran rhino sets problem. Animals 9 (9): 511
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Management - Programs
Sumatran Rhino
The Malayan Zoological Society decided to capture one of three Sumatran Rhinos from Sungei Dusun. They were felt to be threatened by poachers and by drainage schemes which have shrunk the amount of suitable habitat available to them. International Conservation bodies, notably WWF and IUCN, prot...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 Actie voor het behoud van de Javaanse neushoorn. Panda Nieuws Blijdorp 15 (2): ii
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Distribution
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableStrickland, D,L. 1967 Report on rhinos in Malaysia. Oryx 9 (2): 78
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableTun Yin, U 1967 Wild animals of Burma. Rangoon, Rangoon Gazette Ltd, pp. i-ix, i-xi, 1-301
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableAnonymous 1967 The Thai-Danish prehistoric expedition 1960-62, Archaeological excavations in Thailand, vol 2: Ban Kao, neolithic settlements with cemetaries in the Kanchanaburi Province. Copenhagen, Munksgaad, pp. 1-164, pls. 1-140
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1966 Animal remains from Lobang Angus, Niah. Sarawak Museum Journal 14: 185-216, pls. 14-19, tables 1-10
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Sumatran Rhino
Excavation in 1959 of Lobang Angus, a large east-facing mouth of the Great Cave at Niah. Rhinoceros is represented, but scarce.
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File AvailableCave, A.J.E. 1966 The preputial glands of Ceratotherium. Mammalia 30 (1): 153-159, figs. 1-3
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
specimen in Copenhagen Zoo. A female of this species, captured in the Little Siak River district, Riau, Sumatra, lived on exhibition in the Copenhagen Zoo from 1959 to 1972 and at death was an estimated 13 years old. Through the courtesy of Professor K. G. Wingstrand, of the Institute of Compar...
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File AvailableHislop, J.A.; Gee, E. 1966 Rhinoceros and seladang - Malaya. Oryx 8 (6): 353-359, maps 1-2, plate 15
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Formerly widespread, now very scarce. T. Harrisson (1961b) has stated that there are `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah, and in 1945 from S. Raya and from high ground in the upper S. Bahau in Kalimantan.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sandakan. Collected by: W.B. Pryer, 1886. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Bones, two upper molars. Locality: Sarawak, cave near Ban. Collected by: P.L. Sclater, 1895. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: M1986
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Bones, two upper molars. Locality: Sarawak, cave near Ban. Collected by: P.L. Sclater, 1895. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: M1986
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sandakan. Collected by: W.B. Pryer, 1886. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
in the southeast `the headman of the Bajaus at Sungei Manungul [i.e. Menunggul], Pamukang Bay, said there used to be some rhinos in that locality, but he had seen no traces for years' (Abbott, quoted in Lyon, 1911b). A little further north in east Kalimantan, at S. Merah, Mahakam, Raven (unpubli...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mounted head. Locality: Sabah, S. Tingkayu. In coll. National Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
The second previous collection of rhinoceros remains from Sarawak consists of a series of bones together with two upper molars, recovered from gold workings in an alluvial cave deposit in the upper Sarawak river, presumably at or near Ban. These were presented to the British Museum (Natural Hist...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
In western Kalimantan B?ttikofer found tracks and fresh droppings on the higher slopes of G. Liang Kubung, in the upper Kapuas, although not in the surrounding plains; he also reported that Malay rhino hunters were active, and regretted his own bad luck in not getting a specimen himself (Jentink,...
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
Sarawak, Brunei, unknown number in Rejang basin
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
11-13all but one on the north-east
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
10 (?5),all in the north centre
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Rhino in Rejang basin (Sarawak and Brunei).
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
In the swamps of ulu Bernam, on the Perak-Selangor border, Jim Hislop found prints of an adult rhino and took plaster casts.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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Sumatran Rhino
There are recent reports of animals encountered or tracks seen in Sabah on G. Kinabalu (J.L. Harrison, personal communication, 1962).
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File AvailablePagden, H.T. 1965 Rhinoceros on Gunung Jerai. Malayan Nature Journal 19: 239
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Sumatran Rhino
Ca. 1925, H.M. Pendlebury once came face to face with a rhinoceros on the summit of Gunung Jerai.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah,
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In Sarawak, Banks (1931a) found it `hard to give any exact localities but they occur in the mountainous region in the Lawas interior, various places in the far interior of the Baram and Rejang Rivers, occasionally straying as far down as the Ulus [i.e. upper reaches] of Mukah and Oya but is [sic]...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A little further southwest Abbott, in 1907, noted reports of rhinoceroses from about `Batu Dajeu' (? = Bajeuh), in the upper S. Simpang, from the lowlands about the base of G. Palung (= G. Panti), and the neighbourhood of G. Kedijo.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the Kelabit uplands Harrisson later found (Harrisson, in Davis, 1958) that `the Sumatran rhinoceros, once common in the area - in the last century even breaking fences around padi fields - has not been reported anywhere in the area for twenty years. There are living Kelabits who have killed m...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There are specimens from S. Tingkayu, in the former East Coast Residency, Sabah (SNM, fide Davis, 1962).
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 Editorial preface. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): ix-xxi
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The near extermination of the species has been rapid. In Sabah, a little over eighty years ago, in the vicinity of Sandakan, Pryer (1881) found rhinoceroses `not infrequent; the tracks of one or two may usually be seen in the course of a walk in the low districts.' There are specimens from Sand...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah, and in 1945 from S. Raya and from high ground in the upper S. Bahau in Kalimantan.
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Worst of all is D. sumatrensis, for which Borneo was long regarded as a reservoir area. I have been at much pains to seek every level of native and official information from all corners of the island since 1961. My estimate for May 1965 is as follows: Kaliman...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There are recent reports of animals encountered or tracks seen in Sabah on G. Kinabalu (J.L. Harrison, personal communication, 1962) and towards the east coast, `at S. Bole on the Segama. There are also reliable records for the Dent Peninsula, Ulu S. Kalumpang and Ulu Kuamat' (P.F. Burgess, in l...
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File AvailableMarchette, N.J. 1965 Notes on the flora of Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Malayan Nature Journal 19: 129-137
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Existence of tapir, confused with rhino. [Ridley 1893 mentions turf ploughed up by rhino.] Near the summit at about 3800 ft, we discovered a large grassy area lightly wooded with xerophytic vegetation, which was torn up in just the manner ridley described. This was umistakably done by tapirs, w...
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Sumatran Rhino
The man showed him tracks in rough hill country along the Kedah border. Prints were those of a young rhino.
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Sumatran Rhino
A rhino was seen by members of a mountain climbing party in the Larut district of Perak.
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Traces of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis were reported from the national park, towards the Gunong Padang plateau in 1940. Jim Hislop was able to confirm during this expedition to Gunong Padang that rhino still live in the eastern end of the national park.
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asian Rhino Species
1965, Malaya, $6 a pound
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1935, Malaya, small horn fetched about ? 100
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Chinese in Borneo. As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Taxonomy - Evolution
Sumatran Rhino
The presence of rhinoceros among the animal remains from the Sarawak Museum excavation in the West Mouth of Niah cave (see Harrisson. 1964, and also previous issues of the S.M.I. for background information), has already been demonstrated by the identification of fragmentary molar teeth (Medway, 1...
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
1965, Malaya, bone $3 a pound
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Rhino parts are mixed with herbs to make medicine. Horn is used as aphrodisiac and as antidote against poisons.
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
1965, Malaya, fresh blood sells at $30 a pound, dried blood a little less
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Taxonomy - Evolution
Sumatran Rhino
The second previous collection of rhinoceros remains from Sarawak consists of a series of bones together with two upper molars, recovered from gold workings in an alluvial cave deposit in the upper Sarawak river, presumably at or near Ban. These were presented to the British Museum (Natural Hist...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Taxonomy - Evolution
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo, Sarawak - teeth mentioned by Busk In addition to the material from Niah, fossil or subfossil rhinoceros remains have previously been recorded also from south-western Sarawak. The first to come to light were two teeth sent to Sir Charles Lyell by Rajah James Brooke, and discussed by G. B...
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File AvailableMacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1960, Burma, rhino horn sold at US$200 per inch, a 7 inch horn sold at $1600
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File AvailableGroves, C.P. 1965 Description of a new subspecies of rhinoceros, from Borneo, Didermocerus sumatrensis harrissoni. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 13 (3): 128-131
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableWoudt, B.H. van 't 1965 Conservation in the land of the Churka. Conservation News SE Asia 6: 14-16, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableBastin, J. 1965 The British in West Sumatra (1685-1825) / A selection of documents, mainly from the East India Company records preserved in the India Office Library, Commonwealth Relations Office, London. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press: pp. i-xlii, 1-208
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
History
Asian Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailablePfeffer, P.; Sinaga, W. 1965 La reserve de Baluran (Java-est). Science et Nature, par la photographie et par l'image no. 67, Jan-Feb: front cover, 2-10, 16 images
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Subject:
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Javan Rhino
No details available yet
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Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
20-25
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Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Poaching
Javan Rhino
I recall that just after the war a notorious Chinese poacher moved in to make his fortune by killing off the rhinos in the reserve, but was, however, killed by a tiger.
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1964 The orang-utan and rhinoceros in North Sumatra. Oryx 7 (4): 177-184, pls. 5-8, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In May-June 1964, he made another survey in the area where 4 years ago Sumatran rhino were captured by Ryhiner, Skafte and others. He made 2 journeys into the interior, one up the Siak River and the other 100 miles to the south. Although accompanied by guides who had been with Skafte and who to...
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File AvailableMedway, Lord 1964 Post-pleistocene changes in the mammalian fauna of Borneo: archaeological evidence from the Niah caves. Studies in Speleology 1 (1): 33-37, pl. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Taxonomy - Evolution
Sumatran Rhino
There is no evidence of any rhinoceros other than Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. The larger Rhinoceros sondaicus exists on Java, and also alongside the Sumatran Rhinoceros on continental SE Asia. Its presence in quaternary Borneo has been claimed by earlier authors, but re-examination of the fossils...
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