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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 - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Bordeneuve in Les Grandes Chasses en Indochine states that these animals are very scarce. In the following year 1900 he was told by the Cham mountaineers that the Siamese has killed a rhino within two kilometers of Tan-Linh. He considers that from the hunters point of view, the most likely plac... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| Information from Dammerman. Oedjoengkoelon, the peninsula at the extreme western part of South Java. This peninsula has been set apart is a special reserve for the Java rhino. Both species of rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and sumatrensis) are now absolutely protected and the export both of living sp... |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
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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 - Indochina
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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 - China
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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 - East Asia - Indochina
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| Bordeneuve in Les Grandes Chasses en Indochine states that these animals are very scarce. In 1899 he came across three rhinos, male, female and young, near the confluence of the Song-Dinh and the Song-Ray. |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
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| Information from Dr Bourret. Professeur Bourret, a well-known zoologist, of the Direction de l'Instruction Publique writing from Hanoi is certain of the existence of two species of Rhino, sondaicus and sumatrensis, in the south of Indo-China ; and of sondaicus as far north as Tonkin where it has... |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
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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 - Laos
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. Rhinoceros and elephants appear to be found in the same hunting country, and both are met with between Kratie and Sung Treng, south of Saravane (in Cambodia - to the east of the Mekong) and in many places in Laos. On the west side of the mekong, south of Oubon,... |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
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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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