![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hooijer, D.A. 1945 Over subfossiele neushoorns van Sumatra en Borneo. Verhandelingen van het Geologisch-Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap voor Nederland en Kolonien 14: 249-258, fig. 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Tate, G.H.H. 1945 A list of the mammals of the Japanese war area, part 4. Borneo and the islands of the China Sea. New York, Norton Punlishing, pp. 1-25 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anthony, H.E. 1943 Wildlife and weather in the Asiatic war zone. Natural History 52: 204-217, figs. 1-2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It has become so scarce that the likelihood of ever seeing one in the wild state is rather small. It is nowhere common in Burma and is confined to the remote and dofficult sections. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242 |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242 |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| Rhinoceros sondaicus. A captain of the Dutch regiment stationed at Blangkedjeren said that in his four years in Atjeh he had seen but one rhino. It was near the west coast and was a Rhinoceros sondaicus. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Badak tenggiling |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Sumatra - fires. The pawong said that that the rhino hunters years ago fired the forest to drive the animals down to the valley where they could be slaughtered. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Badak Gajah |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Badak Kerbau |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Rhinos are close to extinction in northern Sumatra |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| A few are supposed to remain in remote parts of the Wilhemina Range. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
|
| North Sumatra - Spear trap. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, suing both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails. We encountered the remains of a deadfall along the trail to Blangbeke. It consisted of a huge log in which, originally, a sharpened bamboo blade was... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Badak bersisih |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| A native chieftain told us that the animals once were very numerous on the plateau at Blangbeke. Scattered about the blangs we saw many shallow clay-lined pools in which he said the rhinos used to wallow. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, using both guns and dead-f... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Horn is used as aphrodisiac |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The natives, except when hunting, avoided the rhino-inhabited mountains because truculent bulls often charged unwary travellers. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Chinese pay fabulous prices for the horns, bones, blood and other portions of the animal. Rhino horn is credited by the Chinese with curing all diseases; but they particularly prescribe it as an aphrodisiac. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
|
| 1930, Sumatra, 250 rupees (guilders) for a catty, 1.36 lbs. of powdered horn. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bateson, G.; Mead, M. 1942 Balinese character: a photographic analysis. Special Publication of the New York Academy of Sciences 2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
History
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kerkhoven, A.R.W. 1941 Rhinoceros-jacht op Java. Nederlandsch Indische Jager 11 (5): 92-95, figs. 1-2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bush, W. C. 1941 Pahang quatre années dans la jungle. Paris, Editeur Payot |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Asia/Malaysia/Pahang (4°N 102°E) - 1938 - Présence de rhinos dans la jungle - vu un énorme ( p. 119 ) - (CARINO No. 246 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011) |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Weatherbe, D'Arcy 1940 Burma's decreasing wild life. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 42 (1): 150-160, pls. 1-2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| In the condensed Game Warden's Report for 1938, mentioned above, the Game Warden is quoted: `The Principal Forest officer estimates at least five rhino in the sanctuary, but no young.' |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Chasen, F.N. 1940 A handlist of Malaysian mammals: a systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 15: i-xx, 1-209, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| At one time a single rhinoceros of unknown species was well-known to be on the small island of Abang Besar in the Rhio Archipelago. Kloss gave me this information. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Weatherbe, D'Arcy 1940 Burma's decreasing wild life. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 42 (1): 150-160, pls. 1-2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| The Chief Conservator writes, `containes a few specimens of rhinoceros which are, according to all available evidence, the Javan Rhinoceros.' It is quite incorrect to say that all available evidence shows these rhinos to be Rhinoceros sondaicus. The writer visited and carefully inspected this S... |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Bok, E.J. 1940 Bijdrage tot de kennis der raseigenschappen van het Javaansche volk. Utrecht, Oosthoek, pp. i-vi, 1-128 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Wells, C. 1940 North of Singapore. New York, Robert M. McBride |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Campos, J.de 1940 Early Portuguese accounts of Thailand. Journal of the Thailand Research Society 32 (2): 1-27 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
History
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Thom, W.S. 1940 My life in the Arakan Hill Tracts. Burma Police Journal 3: 433-443 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Mustill, F.J. 1940 Kahilu Wildlife Sanctuary. Burma Police Journal 3: 269-275, 1 plate |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Witkamp in 1924 saw few tracks on the upper Atan river, a tributary of the Klindjau. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In the subdivision Apo Kajan, there are still rhinos between Long Heban and Kiham Awon, on the upper course of the Iwan and that of the Maroeng (mountains on the divide with Serawak), and on the lower Kajan Ioet (report of 1930). |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Malaya Game Department 1939 Malaya: Annual Report on the Game department, for the year 1938. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 38: 32-35 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No trace of rhinoceros has been observed for some years. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| During the Midden-Oost-Borneo expedition of 1925, footprints, dung and paths of rhino were found in the Kong Kemoel mountains (2000 m high) and in the source areas of the Sungei Telen above Long Petah. According to a report by Siebers, the rhino hunters had then already gone to other places beca... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Badak |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| It is nowhere common. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The rhino is reported from the hills and mountains of the Tidoengsche Landen (temesoer or temeroeh): the upper Sekatak region, area between the Malinau and Bahau (left tributary of the Kajan in Boelongan), the Krajan district upstream of the Pa Roengan and Kemaloet rivers, Mentarang district on ... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In the subdivision Beraoe there are still a few rhinos in the Njapa Mountains and the Soearan region, that is relatively close to the coast and the capital Tandjoeng Redeb. In 1930 the animal was called close to extinction. In 1935 another report from the same area called it rare. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| p.345, in South and SE Borneo; p.350, in East Borneo |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The rhinoceros is increasingly confined to the mountains and even there it is not safe as it is hunted for its horns and hoofs. Despite close guarding, the animal iis still illegally hunted by the Dayaks which use a spear, lance and pit. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Since 1931 the rhinoceros is placed on the list of totally protected animals and it cannot be hunted or captured without a special license. Obviously the control on this law is very difficult in the extensive and inaccessible interior forests of Borneo. Export in the usual way of any body parts... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In Sangkoelirang the rhino seems to be absent. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Rhinos occur in East Kutai, in the hills between central Koetai and the Makasser Street. Witkamp (1932) concludes that the species probably is just as rare here as in the central mountain range. Recent reports are equally pessimistic. Let us hope that the animal will live in the national park ... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Badak |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hubback, T. 1939 Review of the Annual Report on game preservation in Burma for the year ended 31 March 1938. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 41 (1): 161-163 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| It is proposed to exploit teak in Shwe-u-Daung. The Sumatran rhino will neither breed not remain in a disturbed area. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hubback, T. 1939 Review of the Annual Report on game preservation in Burma for the year ended 31 March 1938. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 41 (1): 161-163 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| In the Annual report for 1938, the Kahilu Sanctuary is referred to as having its sole object the preservation of Rhinoceros sondaicus and it is recorded that during the year a calf was born, bringing the total up to seven specimens. These statements are based on the reports of the ranger-in-char... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Luce, G.H.; Pe Maung Tin 1939 Burma down to the fall of Pagan: an outline, part 1. Journal of the Burma Research Society 29: 264-282 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Early works of the 4th century refer to tribes living South-West of Yung-ch'ang. In the mountains astride the frontier there lived the wild and troublesome P'u tribes, whose land produced rhinoceros, elephant, tortoise shell, etc. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Malaya Game Department 1939 Malaya: Annual Report on the Game department, for the year 1938. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 38: 32-35 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| On 1 Dec 1938, the caretaker of the ?Cottage', the most distant of the houses on Maxwell Hill, reported damage to buildings by elephants. The superintendent of the hill station, who was just leaving for Penang, had no time to investigate the report in poerson, so passed the news on to the Deputy... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In Boelongan, rhinos occur in the mountains, especially in the Bahau region. In 1930 they were hunted, and probably this continues still. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Mj?berg found fresh rhino tracks in 1925 in the area of the upper Sg. Boh (left tributary of the Upper Mahakam). |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| It was not until after the Great War that the authorities in Burma first realized the very precarious position which sondaicus had reached. I think I am correct in saying that it was Mr. Hubback, when he came over from Malaya in 1921 to shoot a sondaicus for the British Museum, who first drew att... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Badak |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| In 1927, however, information was received that a few Rhinoceros, the description of which suggested that the species was sondaicus, inhabited an area in the Lower Salween, the small Kahilu reserved forest being their main haunt. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
|
| Burma, Kahilu Reserve. From the tracks which he measured, he formed the opinion that there were two Rhino at least which were considerably larger than any Rhinoceros sumatrensis which he had come across.
In the Shwe-u-daung Sanctuary, which contains Rhinoceros sumatrensis, he had measured track... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| In the Shwe-u-daung Sanctuary, which contains Rhinoceros sumatrensis, he had measured tracks, the largest of which was 7 ? in. across. In Kahilu he found and measured two tracks, one of which measured 8 ? in. and the other slightly under 9 in. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| As regards numbers in Kahilu, he concluded that there were undoubtedly five Rhino and probably seven, consisting of six animals which usually go about in pairs and a smaller animal which appears to go about singly. Some doubt existed regarding one of the pairs, which although found in a differen... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| From the tracks which he measured, he formed the opinion that there were two Rhino at least which were considerably larger than any Rhinoceros sumatrensis which he had come across.
In the Shwe-u-daung Sanctuary, which contains Rhinoceros sumatrensis, he had measured tracks, the largest of which ... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| The following notes are based in part on my own experience in Burma, and, as regards existing conditions, on information given me by the present Game Warden. I shall show that Rhinoceros sondaicus is in great danger of extinction in Burma, that there are serious difficulties in the way of conserv... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Blanford, H.R. 1939 Rhinoceros sondaicus in Burma: the problem of conservation. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 37: 27-32 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
|
| Burma, Kahilu Reserve. From time to time local villagers have caught momentary glimpses of the animals; the keepers also have had occasional glimpses of them. All their reports agree that the Rhino possess either a single horn or none at all. Similarly, reports by the local villagers on animal... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1939 Wildreservaat Oedjong Koelon: de wildstand in Java's schoonste natuurpark. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 172-213, figs. 34-52 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1939 Bergen, bossen en blangs in de Gajo- en Alaslanden: een tocht door de Gajo- en Alaslanden en iets over het Loeserreservaat. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 242-288, figs. 81-94, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Voogd, C.N.A. de; Rengers Hora Siccama, G.F.H.W. 1939 Berichtgeving omtrent natuurbescherming over 1936-1938: onderwerpen van lokalen aard, residentiegewijs gerangschikt. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 49-154 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Weatherbe, D'Arcy 1939 Memorandum on the Kahilu Sanctuary. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 41 (1): 146-149, pls. 1-2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hubback, T. 1939 The Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 20 (1): 1-20, figs. 1-5, table 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ledeboer, A.J.M. 1939 Roofdieren in de natuur [Oedjoeng Koelon]. Nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch Indie 21 March 1939: 2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia
Distribution
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1939 De neushoorns van Oedjoeng Koelon. Nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch Indie 20 July 1939: 2 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Meade, P.A. 1939 Born to trouble. New York, G.P.Putnam's Sons |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rookmaaker, H.R. 1939 Circulaire inzake olifantenbescherming. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 163-166 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Conservation
Asian Rhino Species
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rookmaaker, H.R. 1939 Voorstel betreffende de totstandkoming van het Wai Kambas natuurreservaat. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 131-135 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Buffalo and rhino very rare and local within the area covered by the Oxford Expedition. |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Badak |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapore, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The Gunung Losir is quite poor for animals, although there were many old traces of the presence of badak, rhinoceros. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Seloema. A location for rhinos was given as the Boekit Tjampang, which is connected to the Goenoeng Dempo, but no particulars could be obtained. The pasirah of Ngalam said that he went hunting, many years ago, together with a certain Ba... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapre, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapre, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The information regarding rhinoceri in Atjeh is indeed scanty and uncertain. It was impossible to get any definite reports about these animals in and around Lokop. ?The Datoek' at Blangrakal reported having observed them in the high mountains west of that locality. Mr. Obergasner had seen and ... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
|
| A forest officer in Medan reported that he had seen a rhinoceros which had been trapped in central Atjeh and which had the horns and other preferred parts cut away. The carcass was covered with a crude shelter awaiting the return of the trappers to carry away the remainder. This is an example o... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Lebong. In the area between this resort and the residencies of Palembang and Djambi. These reports were given by a man called Sitar, living in the Doesoen Tapoes, in the vicinity of the pasanggrahan Rimbo Pengadang.
All wallows are on ... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In summary, it would seem that there are still a number of rhinoceri in various parts of Atjeh and that there are two rather definite regions where the population is centered; namely, in the Leuser Complex and in the section northeast of Lamno. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Paja Kapi, Laoet Tiga Sagi, Pasir Lebar. The expedition saw a rhino trap with a spear. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Oxford Expedition. Used a path which they believed had been used by a Dyak hunter following up a rhinoceros some months before. |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Rodomala (female) |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Redjang. According to a hunter called Merasoetan or Tjotek, living in the Doesoen Keloebak, there are still rhinos on the slopes of the Boekit Kelam, in the region on the right side, which is east of the road from Tjoeroep to Moeara Aman... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1938 Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve. Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia: 9-14, figs. 1-6 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
|
| Towards the end of August of last year I made an official trip of about six weeks' duration through the game reserve of Oedjoeng Koelon, a peninsula in the south-west of Bantam (Java). I was specially interested in exploring the interior, into which, as far as I know, no European had as yet penet... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Still the general public knows little about the ordinances, because the hunter Panglima thought that rhino hunting was illegal in the Lau Alas (part of the Atjeh Game Reserve), but that otherwise the hunt was open. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Although the protective legislation has reduced the constant persecution, maybe this is due to a smaller number and the reduced value of the horn. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The rhinoceros is practically exterminated in large parts of Sumatra, certainly the one-horned species and the few remaining animals have retreated to remote and inhospitable regions.
None of our reporters could estimate the number of rhinos, but all agreed that very few were left. It can be ta... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In summary, it would seem that there are still a number of rhinoceri in various parts of Atjeh and that there are two rather definite regions where the population is centered; namely, in the Leuser Complex and in the section northeast of Lamno. A number are reported to be living in the high moun... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The reports about the rhinoceros in the entire western part of Sumnatra are very scarce, which I attribute to the fact that there has been little hunting of these animals in these parts, even before. It is certian that there are now only very few people who have hunted the rhino and that the int... |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Warak |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Badak |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
|
| Rhinoceros sondaicus and Rhinoceros sumatrensis. |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
|
| After some hours walk, the guide stopped and examined a spear which he had put out to hunt rhinoceros, exactly like the one figured in Sumatra's Westkust in het Verslag der Midden-Sumatra Expeditie, vol. III, I, 2, plate 123 fig. 2. It is a terrible instrument which is placed exactly in those pl... |
|
![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Groeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
|
| I was told that rhinos were seen in the source area of the Way Roe and the Way Baroe (marga Bengkoenat) and that they descended from the mountains to lower areas during diminishing and new moon. |
|
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
|
| Badak Tjoula |
|
|