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Tanton, R., 1957. One-horned rhino – one of the world’s rarest animals – strolls along Malayan estate road. Straits Times, Singapore 22 March 1957: 1
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The Straits Times
Singapore
Friday, March 22, 1957
One-horned rhino – one of the world’s rarest animals – strolls along Malayan estate road
For 20 years it had been feared extinct: but don’t try to catch it
by Roger Tanton
[Photograph] The rhino and chief … more pictures by Pierre Bazin in Page 2
Kuala Lumpur, Thurs. – The rhinoceros seen on a Southern Perak oil palm estate last week has been identified as one of the rarest of great mammals in existence.
It is the first time in nearly 30 years that a Malayan rhinoceros has been photographed.
The man who saw the ambling, grey, three-toed mammal was Mr. P.G. Bazin, young assistant manager on Lima Blas Oil Palm Estate at Slim River.
Game Ranger: I was astounded
The Chief Game Warden, Mr. H.J. Kitchener, expressed himself as “astounded” when he saw the photographs which were taken to him by the Straits Times.
He identified the mammal as a one-horned rhinoceros, the Sundaicus, a rarity in Malaya.
the only other man to have photographed a rhinoceros in Malaya was Mr. T.R. Hubback, the honorary game warden, Pahang, who in 1928 “snapped” the other rarity in the Malayan rhino world, the two-horned Sumatrensis.
Mr. Kitchener said Mr. Bazin’s pictures proved beyond doubt that the rhinoceros was not extinct in Malaya as had been feared for the last 20 years.
There had been tremendous destruction of the animal in Malaya in the early part of this century.
Mr. Kitchener was emphatic on one point: He will in no circumstances organise a search party to catch the rhino, dead or alive.
‘It is totally protected’
He added: ‘The Straits Times or anyone else can offer a million dollar for the animal alive, but I would forbid its capture. It is a totally protected animal.”
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