| Title: |
A rhino-hunt in Sumatra |
| Author(s): |
Hazewinkel, J.C. |
| Year published: |
1932 |
| Journal: |
Java Gazette |
| Volume: |
1 (5) Suppl |
| Pages: |
i-viii, figs. 1-10 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1932, Sumatra, up to 1500 guilders |
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World
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| Then as suddenly, that well remembered snorting, immediately followed by an angry roar and stamping of the brute's massive feet. That indicated business without a doubt |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Hunting
Javan Rhino
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| Horn is used as aphrodisiac |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| 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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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| 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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A rhino-hunt in Sumatra
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