File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Asian Rhino Species
Shortridge (1915) knew of but a single one shot by a European in southern Tenasserim, some years previously at Victoria Point, but doubts not that a number are killed at water holes by natives, with whom the blood and horns are in great demand as medicine. More recently, C. Boden Kloss (1927) ...
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
In Kutai, the wide Mahakam River is a divide, south of which the rhino does not occur. For the upper reaches of the river, where it is much narrower, i.e. in the subdivision of Boven-Mahakam, this is no longer correct. Rhinos occur in the mpountains on the upper reaches of the rivers Belajan, K...
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Sumatran Rhino
It may be said, also, that the evidence for its occurrence in Borneo is far from good, being based in part on native report (see Sclater, 1869).
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Kutai region in SE Kalimantan, near Samarinda.
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology
Javan Rhino
Sumatra. The Tapirus Indicus or 'saddled' Tapir, is a timid, goodnatured and quite harmless herbivorous animal. Its only weapons are its teeth and bulk (length 2,5 M; height 1,20 M.), for the latter may be used in knocking down and trampling an aggressor. It has on the fore- and hindfeet respe...
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File AvailableStrugnell, E.J.; Willbourn, E.S. 1932 An ascent of Gunung Benom from Raub. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9: 15-27
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
On the ridge at 5500 feet high, saw fresh tracks of rhinoceros, which they follow up the mountain.
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File AvailableHobley, C.W.; Shebbeare, E.O. 1932 The rhinoceros. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 20-21
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Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus. A mere handful surviving in Burma in Kahilu Reserve and in Shwe-u-Daung, but it is uncertain.
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
The shooting of the Rhinoceros sondaicus in Lower Perak, by Mr. Vernay, reminds me of the occasion on which my brother, H. C. Barnard, and I shot a male of the species on nearly the same spot in 1898. A short account of the incident may be of interest to some readers of ?The Malayan Forester.' ...
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
While on the subject of rhinoceros I may take this opportunity, of recording the fact that the late F. J. Weld, formerly of the F.M.S. Civil Service, once got two of them right and left. This happened in about 1897, at a spot about three miles f rom Batu Gajah on the road to Gopeng. It had been ...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asian Rhino Species
1932, Sumatra, up to 1500 guilders
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. The first of these was the locally famous Pinjih rhino, shot in 1899, in the Pinjih valley, Kinta district...
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. The second was a female, killed April 16, 1924, at Kuala Serukoi, near Telok Anson, in Perak, by an unlice...
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File AvailableHobley, C.W.; Shebbeare, E.O. 1932 The rhinoceros. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 20-21
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Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis : he doubts if there are any in Siam.
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
specimens Rhinoceros sondaicus, Berlin: Zoologisches Museum der Universitat: Dr. Pohle kindly informs us, in reply to inquiry, that the Museum has ... a skull from Kapala Wuada, Sumatra, collected by Blandowski.
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m.
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
until recently even its presence in Sumatra was questioned. Positive evidence is now forthcoming, however, that it still occurs in Sumatra, for De Beaufort (1928) gives an account of a complete skeleton, presented to the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, that was procured by a Mr. Keith, 250 kilom...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
For me, because all expenses, troubles and vexations, were at last crowned by getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Heretofore, zoologists had not been aware, that the Rhinoceros Sondaicus wa...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology
Javan Rhino
Sumatra. The Tapirus Indicus or 'saddled' Tapir, is a timid, goodnatured and quite harmless herbivorous animal. Its only weapons are its teeth and bulk (length 2,5 M; height 1,20 M.), for the latter may be used in knocking down and trampling an aggressor. It has on the fore- and hindfeet respe...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Distribution - Hunting
Javan Rhino
We were camping on one of those remote native clearings in the jungle, very primitively tilled, and only occupied at intervals, called ladangs. First rice, then coffee and rubber are cultivated on those dry fields, where planting takes place without much ado between the huge stumps and logs, whi...
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
The shooting of the Rhinoceros sondaicus in Lower Perak, by Mr. Vernay, reminds me of the occasion on which my brother, H. C. Barnard, and I shot a male of the species on nearly the same spot in 1898. A short account of the incident may be of interest to some readers of 'The Malayan Forester.' ...
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File AvailableKeller, E. 1932 De neushoorn in Borneo. Tropische Natuur 21 (12): 229
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Sumatran Rhino
Witkamp remarked that the rhinoceros does not occur south of the Mahakam River. While surveying the area between Balikpapan and Samarinda, I did not only see many old and new tracks of the rhinoceros, I even saw an individual. The footprints had a diameter of over 20 cm.
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
Length of horn 7 ? inch, Malaysia
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
Length of body ca. 11 ft, Malaysia
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asian Rhino Species
Horn is used as aphrodisiac
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File AvailableStrugnell, E.J.; Willbourn, E.S. 1932 An ascent of Gunung Benom from Raub. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9: 15-27
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
On the ridge at 5500 feet high, saw fresh tracks of rhinoceros, which they follow up the mountain.
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
In the mountains near the source of the Telen, visited in 1925 by the Midden-Oost-Borneo expedition, only scarce tracks were found, partly at 2000 m high, and we found the same on the upper reach of the Atan, a tributary of the Klindjau.
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Javan Rhino
Though it had not rained for over a month, the track was easy to follow, for luckily our friend did not use the beaten paths, preferring to make a new one. At about eleven o'clock, the track became much clearer, so with the utmost care we advanced, now and then stopping motionless to listen. Su...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Javan Rhino
But Allah be praised, that day our luck was really incredible. We had been scouring the bush for five days, without the tiniest bit of luck. Then, when least expected, our friend passed at less than a hundred yards from the very ladang we had chosen for our camp. This sounds unbelievable, for ...
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File AvailableBarnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185
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Javan Rhino
Height at shoulder ca. 5 ft, Malaysia
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m.
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
We saw often the feeding remnants of these animals, which are much like those of an elephant, but they are smaller in size. We remember how it occurred to us that in many cases a young rotan had grown from a dung ball, which obviously was a fertile ground for it.
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File AvailableRoemer, L.S.A.M.; Bontius, J. 1932 Dr Jacobus Bontius. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1932, Bijblad 1: 1-33
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Javan Rhino
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Sumatra. And what about our friend Rhino ? Well, he went the way of all Rhinos, i.e. to the chemist's of the Celestial Empire, with hide and hair, to give - with more or less results -Youth and Vitality, to old sinners and patriarchs, who still refused to renounce the Pleasures of Life. The Chi...
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asian Rhino Species
1932, Sumatra, Horn 4000 guilders
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m. The length of the horn, measured along the slightly curved foreside, 37 cm., with an ...
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File AvailableZondag, L.J.P. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in de Zuider- en Oosterafdeeling van Borneo. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 82-83, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
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Anonymous 1932 Dierenbeschermingsordonnatie 1931. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 94-97
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 A rare rhinoceros: gift to Natural History Museum. The Times (London) 1932 October 5: 11
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Museums
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 Drie heilige olifanten: een spannende jacht. Sumatra Post 5 July 1932: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1932 Two of the finest animals found in Burma's forests. Field 1932 February 6: 183
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1932 Two of the finest animals found in Burma's forests. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4128), 1932 February 6: 185
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 The rarest rhino (in Malaysia). Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4129), 1932 February 13: 223
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 Rare Malayan rhinoceros. Straits Times (Singapore) 24 January 1932: 1
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Javan Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 Rare Malayan rhinoceros: hunt in Selangor and Perak swamps. Straits Times (Singapore) 25 January 1932: 6
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Javan Rhino
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File AvailableMacNaught, F. 1932 The hunt for the one-horned Javan rhinoceros. Illustrated London News Saturday 15 October 1932: 566-567
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Javan Rhino
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableLeefmans, S. 1931 Jaarverslag over 1930. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 27-31
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
There have been discussions with the Resident of Bantam and the General prosecutor about the punishment of a person who went against the Nature Conservation Act in this nature reserve (Oedjoengkoelon), i.e. the shooting of a rhinoceros by a Chinese hunter. On further examination it was found tha...
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1931 Further records of the one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay States. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 5: 102, pl. 6
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
An individual of the one-horned rhinoceros, of which the head is preserved in the Federated Malay States Police Mess at Kuala Lumpur, was shot at Ujong Permatang, Selangor, in 1927. The head was badly set up and is therefore not reproduced.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
During financial year 1930-1931, in Burma as a whole 2 rhino were illegally killed. None in 1928-29.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet. Unfortunately the animal was too far to distinguish whether it was a Rhinoceros sumatrensis or R. sondaicus. It i...
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Within a fortnight I saw three rhinoceros. The photo shows a male R.sumatrensis shot within the Sanctuary under the direction of the Local Government for museum purposes on 27 Oct 1930. The skin and skeleton have been presented to the Britsih Museum for mounting.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The three main peaks, Shwe-U-Daung, Nanmadawgyi, Nanmadawgalay are popularly supposed to be he abode of centain Nats (spirits) which are held in some reverence by the Shan villagers near the Sanctuary.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
The Divisional Forest Officer, Salween Dt., further comments: `With villages both in and around the sanctuary the range of the animals is extremely limited, and it is doubtful if they can increase to any appreciable extent. However, as one of the rarest mammals in the world, the Javan rhinos are...
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
There are fully ten other rhinoceros living in the Sanctuary.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1931 Further records of the one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay States. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 5: 102, pl. 6
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
A one-horned rhinoceros was obtained in April 1898 at Sungei Pelawan near Chikus, in Perak, by the late Mr. H.C. Barnard. The head is now in the possession of Mrs Barnard. Barnard was one of the party which secured the trophy. [shown in plate]
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
There is still some hope that a specimen or two of Rhinoceros sondaicus is to be found in the Shwe-u-Daung sanctuary. Tracks measuring 8 ? inches in diameter have been seen which correspond nearly to those of sondaicus in Mergui and Thaton.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
The sanctuary was visited by the Divisional Forest Officer, Thaton Division, during the year [ending 31 March 1931]. Beyond finding the fresh tracks of one adult rhinoceros no useful information was obtained. The D.F.O., Salween Division, within whose jurisdiction part of the sanctuary lies, re...
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Sanctuary extends over 126 square miles, 75% heavily afforested. The more elevated portions of the Sanctuary assume the form of a high watershed which stretches for about 10 miles at altitudes varying from 4000 ft to the 6223 ft of the Shwe-u-Daung peaks.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. R. sumatrensis spends most of its time in the heaviest forest it can find and only occasionally climbs onto the open grass-clad ridges and spurs which are a feature of the sanctuary at elevations above 4000 feet.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
sumatrensis wander generally in pairs, and a former experience was duplicated in that the mate returned to the body of the one killed a few minutes after the shooting, and had to be driven off by a shot fired over the head.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Male shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. much rubbed and worn horns of which the front horn is 7 inches in length along the curve from base to tip.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Animal shot in Burma for BMNH in 1930. Height 4 ft 5 inches (male)
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File AvailableBanks, E. 1931 A popular account of the mammals of Borneo. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9 (2): 1-139, pls. 11-19, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableZondag, L.J.P. 1931 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in de Zuider- en Oosterafdeeling van Borneo. Tropische Natuur 20 (12): 221-223, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableHesse, E. 1931 Gold-Bergwerke in Sumatra 1680-1683. Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Leipzig im Verlag von Michael Gunther (1690) gedruckten verbesserten Ausgabe des im Jahre 1687 zum ersten Mal erschienenen Textes. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-xi, 1-195
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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Schweitzer, C. 1931 Reise nach Java und Ceylon 1675-1682. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-ix, 1-148
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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Bontius, J. 1931 Historia naturalis & medicae Indiae Orientalis libri sex. Opuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum de Arte Medica 10: i-lxxiv, 1-459
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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Munnecke, W. 1931 Mit Hagenbeck im Dschungel. Berlin, August Scherl, pp. 1-203
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableTerbeest, G.J.B.H. 1931 Eenige herinneringen uit mijn diensttijd bij het korps marechaussee op Atjeh plm. 1900, part 3 - Een ontmoeting met een rhinoceros. Delftsche Courant 1931 July 25: 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableFrechkop, S. 1931 Remarques sur quelques mammiferes provenant d'Atjeh (Sumatra) [envoye par M. Rookmaaker, Assistant-Resident a Atjeh]. Mededelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen 7 (28): 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableNieuwenhuis, A.W. 1931 Nederland's roeping in Indie. Tropisch Nederland 4 (18), 285-288
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1931 Jacht op groot wild [in Padang Sidempoean]. Sumatra Post (Medan) Wednesday 15 April 1931 (vol. 33 no 87): 3
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBernard, C. 1930 Verkorte notulen der jaarvergadering van de Ned Ind Ver tot Natuurbescherming op 23 maart 1930 gehouden te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 19 (5/6): 107-108
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Poaching
Javan Rhino
Refers to a recent case in which the Game Ordinance worked imperfectly. A Chinese had been hunting rhinos in Ujung Kulon and when he was charged, he was released. The Director of Agriculture should see if this sentence cannot be reversed. The chairman feels that the peninsula should be placed ...
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File AvailableGimlette, J.D.; Burkill, I.H. 1930 The medical book of Malayan medicine, translated by Inche' Ismail, possibly in Penang, circa 1886. Gardens Bulletin 6 (11-15): 323-474
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros tooth (saking badak) for use in a fumigation and for ulceration of the vagina. Take rhino tooth and burn it near her side.
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File AvailableMertens, R. 1930 Bemerkungen ueber die Saeugethiere der Inseln Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores. Zoologische Garten 2: 23-29
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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Asian Rhino Species
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Appelman, F.J. 1930 Wildbescherming. Tectona 23: 581-605
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableHerport, A. 1930 Reise nach Java, Formosa, Vorder-Indien und Ceylon 1659-1668 Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Bern im Verlag von Georg Sonnleitner im Jahre 1669 erschienenen Original-Ausgabe. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-xii, 1-179
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMjoberg, E.; Barwell, A. 1930 Forest life and adventures in the Malay Archipelago. William Morrow & Co, New York: 1-201, 83 plates, 1 map
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
General - Popular works
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMertens, R. 1930 Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Inseln Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 42 (3): 115-344 (part on Rookmaaker only)
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
History
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableRensch, B. 1930 Neue Land-Pulmonaten von den Kleinen Sunda-Inseln. (Aus den Ergebnissen den Sunda Expedition Rensch.) [Description Xesta rookmaakeri]. Zoologischer Anzeiger 89 (3/4): 73-88
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Taxonomy
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableRensch, B. 1930 Eine biologische Reise nach den kleinen Sunda-Inseln. Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger , pp. i-xx, 1-237
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Taxonomy
Asian Rhino Species
Scans made from the copy presented to H.R. Rookmaaker by the author Rensch.
There is a dedication by Bernhard Rensch
Also few marginal annotations by Rookmaaker (1900-1990)
05-2024
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In 1925, from S. Boh towards Long Nawang. We walked through real forest. A rhinoceros and three Borneo buffalo had crossed our path without disturbing us.
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
1922, On Baram River towards Mt. Moeroed, in Kalabiten country, ca. 3.30 N, 115.20 E. The locals rumoured that the rhinoceros occurs here sporadically, but we did not see it.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus in West and Middle Java.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In September 1925, on the rapids of S. Boh, close to Kubu Long Bakung. Fresh tracks of rhinoceros were reported.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He frequents the foothills below the mountains.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1929, Java, one horn some hundred guilders
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1929, Java, between 200 and 400 guilders per kg
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1929 On the zoogeography of Java. Treubia 11 (1): 1-88
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Borneo. In 1925 in Apo Kajan. Figure of a nail of a rhinoceros, which is worn as an amulet around the hand, or attached to the sword of a head-hunter in Apo Kajan.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1929 Preservation of wild life and nature reserves in the Netherlands Indies. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Science Congress, Java 1929: 1-91, pls. 1-20
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Horns are highly valued by the Chinese and are used for a secret medicine.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
Another story recounting how the Animals of the Jungle, observing Man's success, resolved upon a tuba-fishing of their own, the triruration of the root to be performed by ordinary chewing. Unhappily the only four-footed creatures who could deal with Derris elliptica without harm to the system, w...
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
He comes down in the heat of the day to take his ease in what are called 'salt-licks', muddy baths formed by springs of saltish water. The clearing and the mud of the bushes were, as I was told, caused by the creature's trampling movement on his way home to his lair higher up the hills. My info...
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File AvailableGimlette, J.D. 1929 Malay poisons and charm cures. London, J. and A. Churchill, pp. i-xiv, 1-301
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros horn is used against poisoning with 'rengut', in a mixture together with bones of a whale, solid casque of a rare hornbill, a sea-porcupine and stag's water, mixed in water.
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