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Tun Yin, U, 1954. A note on the position of rhinoceros in the Union of Burma (1953). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 52 (1): 83-87
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Distribution - Records |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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In the Annual report on Game Preservation in Burma for year ending 31 March 1940, it is stated that the Divisional Forest Officer, Tharrawaddy Division (U Aung Din), found fresh rhino tracks on Sanwingan Hill. A Karen forester informed me that in 1952 there are two rhino surviving in the Zamayi Forest Reserve, Pegu Forest Division, in the upper reaches of Pegu River. U Aung Din said that he found tracks of two rhino at the source of the Thounze chaung on the Pegu Yoma. On his revisit of same area in 1945, he was informed that one of the two rhino had been shot by Karens.
Between 1922 and 1926 the writer made several trips up Shwelaung chaung, Kawliya chaung and Baingda chaung. He met a Karen hunter (Naun To) who had shot 4 rhino and was informed of a pocket on the Pegu Yoma where there were at least 4-6 rhino. The area is somewhere west of Penwegon on the Rangoon Mandalay line. There may still be specimens surviving in this area.
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