Banks, E., 1978. Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14
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Asian Rhino Species |
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And so I once explained to a party of Big Game Hunters fresh from Africa, when they were visiting the Natural History Museum, that the Bornean Rhino was not at all brave, it ran away if there was the slightest smell of a man about, pushing the horn under the nearest fallen tree, tossing the whole lot over its back to form a road block which delayed its pursuers, giving the Rhino time to escape. The Big Game Hunters did not believe it - had 1 ever seen it happen? I had not, for the Bornean Rhino was now extinct, all the little ones running behind their mothers had been killed by the falling trees. I was 'carpeted' for this story - Did they really think I would make up such a thing? They did. You may laugh, but the Kenyah hunters vowed the young ones avoided the falling trees by taking refuge inside the mother's body and riding in safety with the head sticking out behind - and they made me a very nice wooden model too.
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