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Reference Base  Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhin... |
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Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution |
| Author(s): |
Loch, C.W. |
| Year published: |
1937 |
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Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| Volume: |
15 (2) |
| Pages: |
130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. The species still occurs in some localities in South Sumatra in Palembang, but is very rare there. |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. On the west side of the Mekong, south of Oubon, in Siamese Laos, there is the `Pass of Elephants and Rhinoceros.' |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, states that during 1924 he located a band of rhinos in the province of Sam-Nua where formerly they abounded. By the appearance of the tracks, they had only been there some eight hours before. They were followed for several days without... |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
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Asian Rhino Species
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| M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, who evidently knows something of the subject has written in some detail and summarises from his knowledge that several specimens still exist in the dense forests separating the provinces of Vinh and Thanh-Hoa in northern Annam. Also in ... |
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Asia - East Asia - Vietnam
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level. |
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Asia - East Asia - Vietnam
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Javan Rhino
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| Information of Bourret in Hanoi. Bourret maintains that sondaicus occurs or has been found in Cochin China, Siam, Laos and Cambodia. It has been killed in La Nha, also at Bien-Hoa, at Cap St. Jacques not far from Saigon, in the south of Cambodia. Also in the region of Xieng-Khouang in Tran Nin... |
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Asia - East Asia - China
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| As these provinces of China are adjacent to Burma and Tonkin it is possible that R. sondaicus may have occurred there or at least visited these countries. Knowing the value the Chinese place on the trophies, it may be supposed that any rhino so ill-advised as to enter these provinces would not r... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
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| In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes :-' I have never shot the lesser rhinoceros on the right bank of the Brahmapootra but I have no doubt it exists, as it is also ... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
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| In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' This animal extends through Assam, down Sylhet, the Garrow Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arrakan and Burma to Malaya, and pro... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| H. The Kuala Serukai Rhinoceros. In April 1924, a cow R.sondaicus was killed at Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson in Perak. It made an attack on a Chinese coolie who was tapping jelutong in the forest. He was charged three times, tossed, and chased into the coolie lines. She was supposed to have... |
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