![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 52-55 |
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| I understand there are still a few left. But realziing the great demand the Customs Authorities take every precaution to prevent the export. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 |
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| It is believed that two or three are still to be found in the swampy lands of southern Perak. There is no certainty, however, about this. An old native hunter with whom i discussed the matter informed me that he had lately heard of one, but was inclined to doubt the truth of the report. From e... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| E. The ?Sungai Palawan'Rhinoceros. In the same paper Mr. Barnard describes how he and his brother Mr. H. C. Barnard shot a male of the species in 1898 on the Sungai Palawan near Chikus, Lower Perak. At that time, of course, the country around here was mostly virgin forest and practically uninha... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| info from Dammerman. The species is now rare in Java: a few are said to live in the district south of Tasikmalaja (C. Java) and a few others south of Bantam (W. Java), whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - I. The Ujong Permatang Rhinoceros. In January 1928, a Police Officer stationed at Kuala Sciangor at the mouth of the Selangor River heard reports of an enormous animal that was destroying the Chinese gardens in the Ujong Permatang district some five miles to the north and ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| The writer first became interested in the subject, when living at Changkat Pa'Badak on the Kinta River, not far from the town of Kampar, during the years 1929-33. Malays coming from Changkat Pingan a few miles down stream would speak of a ?badak' of enormous size living in the jungle to the sout... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - F. The ?Pinji' Rhinoceros. In 1899, the famous ? Pinji ? rhinoceros was shot by Sir George W. Maxwell in the Pinji Valley, not a great distance from the Laliat Railway Station, in Kinta. The classic description of its exploits and the shooting of this animal may be read i... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| The occurrence of the Javan rhinoceros in the island of Sumatra, was first noted by Desmarest in 1822. Up till lately it was doubted that the animal was indigenous, a suspicion now proved to be ill-founded.
De Beaufort, 1928, gives an account of a complete specimen presented to the Zoological M... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Expeditie naar den Goenoeng Leuser in Atjeh. Indische Gids 59 (1): 561-562 |
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| The hunting methods were inhuman. The animals die a terrible death and when one is hunted, only 10 to 20 percent of the body is retrieved. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Wild-reservaat in de Lampongsche districten. Indische Gids 59 (1): 559-561 |
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| The hunt of the rhinoceros used to be very cruel. The animal was caught with so-called 'toekas', which is erected above a shallow pit and is covered with thick branches. If an elephant or a rhino fall into the pit, a mechanism is activated which lowers a long heavy piece of wood withan iron poi... |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Ned Commissie Natuurbescherming 1937 Nederlandsch-Indie. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 11: 19-22 |
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| The game reserve Berbak in the residency Djambi: rhinoceros and tapir occur here. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| D. Batu Gajah Rhinos. Mr. B. H. F. Barnard, for many years a Forest Officer in Malaya, writing in the ?Malayan Forester' for July 1932 instances the shooting of two rhinos in 1897 by Mr. F. J. Weld formerly of the Malay Civil Service. This was at a spot about three miles from Batu Gajah on the ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). As to the one-horned, I have been thirty-three years in this part of the world and have travelled over the major part of Siam and I have never yet met a man, native or European, who has shot one. Some twenty years ago two ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| After about sx or seven days walk we followed the Lupin River up unto the highlands forming the barrier between Sarawak and British North Borneo. Two days walk brought us out onto a ridge as flat as a board, but narrow and between 3000 and 4000 feet high with some of the thickets jungle and bigg... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| Now it cannot be denied that the rhino was once numerous in the Ulu Rejang, Ulu Baram and Ulu Trusan; without going into statistics each river even ten years ago was good for them from ten to twenty pairs of horns annually. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| G. Dindings Rhinos. Writing in the ?Times of Malaya' 9 Aug. 1932, Mr. Granville M. O'Hara states that in 1905, while stationed in the Dindings as a Forest Officer, he had the good fortune to be present at the trapping of a one-horned rhinoceros. He wrote an article ?Trapping of Rhinoceros in th... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| In the Tenasserim District the animal was searched for by Vernay and party in 1928, over a period of three months; permission having been given by Sir Harcourt Butler, then Governor of Burma, to shoot two specimens. Tracks of sumatrensis were found, but none of sondaicus, and it was concluded th... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Dammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Badak Kerbau |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| J. The Sungei Lampan Rhino. The last animal of this species tobe shot in Malaya was obtained in January, 1932, on the Sungai Lampan near Degong and Telok Anson, Perak. Mr. A. S. Vernay of London and New York, whose collections in the Faunthorpe-Vernay Galleries in the New York Museum are well k... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 52-55 |
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| Whether or no commercialism is the rason for the practical disappearance of Rhinoceros sondaicus , I am not prepared to say. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - B. The ? Tahan ? Rhinoceros. The next record, although there is an element of uncertainty about it, is of great interest. The Javan rhinoceros has never been known to occur on the east side of the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Theodore Hubback, the Hon. Game Warden of Pahang, who... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - C. Temoli Rhinos. In the 1890s, Mr. G. W. F. Curtis, who was a settlement officer in Perak, shot more than one Rhinoceros sondaicus near Temoli. The skulls of these animals are believed to be in the Kuala Lumpur Museum. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| info from Dammerman. whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon, the peninsula at the extreme western part of South Java. This peninsula has been set apart is a special reserve for the Java rhino. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| A few years ago I saw a newspaper reference to a young one-horned rhino having been captured in Patani, but it is more than likely it turned out to be a specimen of sumatrensis. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five ye... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five ye... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Expeditie naar den Goenoeng Leuser in Atjeh. Indische Gids 59 (1): 561-562 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| On Goenoeng Loeser, the people still hunt the badaks regularly. Mr Clements has found recent tracks of rhino on the western slopes of G. Loeser. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - Malaysia. It is believed that two or three are still to be found in the swampy lands of southern Perak. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. It is not impossible that there may be one or two lingering along the Arakan Coast or elsewhere. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Now it cannot be denied that the rhino was once numerous in the Ulu Rejang, Ulu Baram and Ulu Trusan; without going into statistics each river even ten years ago was good for them from ten to twenty pairs of horns annually.
There are almost none now, and in fact, after a prolonged visit to the U... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Asian Rhino Species
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| 1880, Borneo, Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus . In a letter received from the Forest Department, Shwebb, it stated that four specimens of the Javan rhinoceros probably occur in the Kahilu Game Sanctuary. This is located in the Thaton and Salween Districts, in Lower Burma. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 |
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| Horn is used as aphrodisiac. Chinese in Malaya. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| Horn is used as aphrodisiac |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Dammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Specimen in museum Buitenzorg. A mounted head from West Java with horn, measured along the front curve, of 19 cm.
The mounted specimen shot by Franck has horn of 24 cm. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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Javan Rhino
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| I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefying all t... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| At the present time in the royal marriages of Luang-Prabang a rhino horn frequently figures in the dowry of the young princesses. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price. Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anythi... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Dammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Museum Buitenzorg. A mounted head from Lampongs, front horn measured along front curve, length 22.2 cm. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in Malaya. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 45-52 |
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| 1937, Malaya, Chinese will pay as much as 300-400 dollars for the horn |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 |
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| 1937, Borneo, Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anything up to $300-$400, its horn being the most useful part, but the blood and the flesh also fetch a price, solely on account of the supposed aphrodisiacal properties appreciated by the Chinese. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1937 Bij de badaks en bantengs in het wildreservaat Oedjong Koelon: pp. 74-82, figs. 1-8
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/add_subref.gif) | In: Steenis, C.G.G.J. van Album van Natuurmonumenten in Nederlandsch Indie, serie 2. Buitenzorg, Nederlandsch Indische Vereniging tot Natuurbescherming |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1937 Over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 30: 724-730 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Antonius, O. 1937 Bilder aus dem frueheren und jetzigen Schonbrunner Tierbestand, I. Nashorner. Zoologische Garten 9 (1/2): 18-26, figs. 1-7 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1937 Zwerftochten door Oedjoeng Koelon. Nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch Indie 13 October 1937: 2, fig. 1 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Netherlands Indies Government 1937 Decree no.14 dated 26 January 1937 to the establishment of the game reserve Wai Kambas in Lampongsche Districten, Sumatra. Staatsblad van Nederlandsch-Indie 1937 no. 38: 1-2 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Nieuw wildreservaat op Sumatra [New game reserve (Way Kambas) on Sumatra, first proposed by H.R. Rookmaaker]. Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indie Wednesday 9 June 1937 (vol. 42 no. 129): 23 |
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| Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indie, Wednesday 9 June 1937 (vol. 42 no. 129) p.23 Nieuw wildreservaat op Sumatra.
New Game Reserve on Sumatra: in the swampy areas of the Wai Kambas the rhinoceroses still roam The one-horned rhinoceros still occurs in this region ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Ons natuurreservaat: De bescherming van den wildstand. Sumatra Post (Medan) Wednesday 16 June 1937 (vol. 39 no.135): 3 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Zwerftochten door Oedjoeng Koelon. Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indie Wednesday 13 October 1937 (vol 42 no 235): 5 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1937 Rhinoceros shot near Kuala Lipis. Straits Times (Singapore) 26 September 1937: 5 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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| The rhinoceros is scarce. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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| The rhinoceros is rare in this region. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rodger, A. 1936 Notes on the fauna of Burma. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 29: 17-21 |
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| However much officials in Burma are willing to protect the few remaining Rhinoceros sondaicus, their efforts are almost sure to be nullified by the Siamese from over the border. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| An investigation as to the occurrence of rhinoceros had the result that this is much doubted, although in 1927 still 6 animals were reported. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rodger, A. 1936 Notes on the fauna of Burma. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 29: 17-21 |
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| Rhinoceros of two kinds. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1936 Rapport van een bezoek aan het natuurmonument Oedjoengkoelon. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 114-116 |
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Javan Rhino
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| If people like the keepers at the lighthouse, who have guns and bullets, would shoot a rhinoceros regularly, nothing can be done about it, as the area is too large to be patrolled regularly. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Anonymous 1936 Midden-Oost-Borneo Expeditie 1925. Weltevreden, G. Kolff and Co, pp. i-v, 1-423 |
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| No rhino tracks were observed on the burma side of the main watershed. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| In February 1934 the last specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus in the Regency of Tasikmalaja was collected for the Zoological Museum in Buitenzorg, as it was totally solitary and could easily be lost to science. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Plans to establish a game reserve on the Tanggamoes, especially due to the occurrence of the one-horned rhinoceros (in Way Kambas and surrounding area), have not been formed into a definitive proposal. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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| This area which encloses the 2300 m high Boekit Raja may soon become a reserve. This reserve is specially meant for the rhinoceros which is still rather common. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Anonymous 1936 Midden-Oost-Borneo Expeditie 1925. Weltevreden, G. Kolff and Co, pp. i-v, 1-423 |
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| the estimated number of Rhinoceros sondaicus in the reserve is six. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The `rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rappard, W.F. 1936 Naar de nieuwe meren van Soeoh, II. Tropische Natuur 25 (7): 108-113, figs. 1-10 |
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| We travel through the forest of the Zuid Sumatra nature reserve, which is the link between the forest reserves of Sekintjan and Penentoh within it. We see a rhino track, belonging to the Sumatran rhino with two horns judging from the size of the tracks. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| How far one individual may wander, I don't know, but they are at least several day's marches (for a human, through difficult terrain!). |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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| Expedition to shoot a Rhinoceros sondaicus for AMNH - unsuccesful, with permission of Perak Government and Mr Theodore Hubback in 1935, unsuccesful but Dicerorhinus sumatrensis tracks were encountered.
On June 13th I left for my advanced camp, having had huts prepared in the forest some 12 miles... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Elephant and rhinoceros are rather common in the subdivision Indragiri. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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| on his expedition to shoot sondaicus at Erong River, passed Lima Blas. He says, p. 441, he reached Lima Blas estate, a large oil palm concern, French owned. There was a Danish manager, Mr. Iversen, with assistants Mr. Talau and Mr. Hine. It is not far from the Bernam River. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Early in 1935 a patrol led by Lt. Scheepens destroyed a number of rhinoceros traps of the local population in places which were supposed to be within the border of the Gn. L?ser reserve. There are only a few patrol maps of this region and the reserve was only indicated by a line on a map of 1913... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A. 1936 Het wildreservaat Zuid-Sumatra I. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 159-162 |
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| This is the third game reserve to be declared, in the Residencies of Bekoelen and Lampongsche Districten, area of about 357.000 ha. Rhinoceroses occur here. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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| The Forest reserve Dolok Sembilin (in Tapanoeli) could be made into a reserve. There are in this area rhinoceroses. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Endert, F.H. 1936 Het wildreservaat 'Berbak' in Djambi. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 137-139, figs. 15-17 |
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| The Berbak reserve with an area of 190.000 ha has been declared a game reserve. It is known that the region still has rhinoceros, tapir and wild buffalo. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| There is little hunting in the region. Elephants and rhinoceros occur sporadically. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| A further attempt to procure a specimen of a Rhinoceros sondaicus will probably be made in Sumatra where this species still exists. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Rodger, A. 1936 Notes on the fauna of Burma. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 29: 17-21 |
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Javan Rhino
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| A small sanctuary of 62 sq. miles in the Thaton District, to the east of the Gulf of martaban, is reported to harbour six of these rhinoceros [ Rhinoceros sondaicus] |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Census Methods
Javan Rhino
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| The exceptional size (and depth), and consequently the long preservation of the tracks on good soil, can give the impression that the animal is numerous in certain areas, while in reality maybe just a single animal has passed the area several tims. Therefore the measurement of the tracks is very... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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| Sumatra. In Feb 1935 a rhinoceros walked into the military bivouac Kongk? (Blangkedjeren-Koetatjane) and had to be shot. Within an hour the entire animal had gone; the soldiers and local people had cut it up in pieces. Only some of it was eaten, most was cooked for the fat which is much esteem... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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| Malaysia. A rhino is worth Rs. 1000 or more to the poacher, its chief value is in its horn, but every part of it possesses a definite value, including the blood, as an aphrodisiac. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| The 'rhino paths' are well-known even today, which are still found, possibly further dug in through other means, on many mountains in the western half of Java, like on the Salak, Gedeh, Goentoer, Patoeha, Tjeremai and Slamet. The rhinos walk around the bends of the paths up to the highest tops a... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Searching for sondaicus in Malaysia. On the fourth day while some eight miles north-east of camp, two Sakais caught me up and produced a 8 ? inch stick which was declared to be the measurement of a fresh rhino track that they had found. Although this was a bit small for a sondaicus track, I dec... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| In general one cannot expect more than one animal in a certain place, except for a mother and young and of course, exceptionally, when a male and female come together. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| We later came on a heap of the rhino's faeces, somewhat similar to horse's droppings. It is well known to a rhino poacher that a rhinoceros is wont to return to the same spot to defecate, a habit it shares with some of the antelopes, and this, as often as not, leads to its destruction, the poac... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The rhino likes to take mud baths. He has certain 'pangoejangans' which it visits regularly, and where formerly hunters would wait for it to appear. Near such a wallow all bushes and the grass are covered with mud and this mudcover can extend further afield because the mud is rubbed off the ani... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1936, Malaya, A rhino is worth Rs. 1000 or more to the poacher, its chief value is in its horn, but every part of it possesses a definite value, including the blood, as an aphrodisiac. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| Sumatra, G. Leuser
In Feb 1935 a rhinoceros walked into the military bivouac Kongk? (Blangkedjeren-Koetatjane) and had to be shot. Within an hour the entire animal had gone; the soldiers and local people had cut it up in pieces. Only some of it was eaten, most was cooked for the fat which is m... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| According to A.R.W. Kerkhoven, the rhino male is generally smaller than the female. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1936 Enkele eerste aanteekeningen over de sporen der Javaansche zoogdieren. Tectona 29: 215-262 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| Java. Size of a track of an old male: 28 x 29 cm (F.J. Appelman). |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Burma Game Dept 1936 Extracts from Annual Report for the year ending 31st March, 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 29: 21-25 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Hazewinkel, J.C. 1936 Wild animals of Sumatra. Java Gazette 5 (1): i-iv, figs. 1-7 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Heurn, F.C. van; Heynsius-Viruly, A. 1936 A survey of data received from the Dutch East Indies. Special Publication of the American Commission of International Wildlife Protection 8: 24-73, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hartmann, M.A. 1936 De Hoeloebeloe-Hoogvlakte in Zuid-Sumatra. Tropische Natuur 25 (4): 53-60, figs. 1-8, maps 1-3 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| Hoeloebeloe plateau. There is much game in the surrounding mountains. More localized in the neighbouring Tanggamoes area there are still rhinoceros. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Endert, F.H. 1936 Lijst van bestaande natuurmonumenten en wildreservaten in Nederlandsch Indie op 1 mei 1936. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 181-184, maps 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1936 De moord op den badak. Nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch Indie 6 October 1936: 2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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