Reference Base Notes for: Sumatran Rhino back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (36)  ... 23 24 25 26 27 ...   Comyn Platt, T. 1937 A report on fauna preservation in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 52-55 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino I understand there are still a few left. But realziing the great demand the Customs Authorities take every precaution to prevent the export.   details Ned Commissie Natuurbescherming 1937 Nederlandsch-Indie. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 11: 19-22 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The game reserve Berbak in the residency Djambi: rhinoceros and tapir occur here.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino After about sx or seven days walk we followed the Lupin River up unto the highlands forming the barrier between Sarawak and British North Borneo. Two days walk brought us out onto a ridge as flat as a board, but narrow and between 3000 and 4000 feet high with some of the thickets jungle and bigg...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Now it cannot be denied that the rhino was once numerous in the Ulu Rejang, Ulu Baram and Ulu Trusan; without going into statistics each river even ten years ago was good for them from ten to twenty pairs of horns annually.   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino G. Dindings Rhinos. Writing in the ?Times of Malaya' 9 Aug. 1932, Mr. Granville M. O'Hara states that in 1905, while stationed in the Dindings as a Forest Officer, he had the good fortune to be present at the trapping of a one-horned rhinoceros. He wrote an article ?Trapping of Rhinoceros in th...   details Dammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Badak Kerbau   details Tweedie, M.W.F. 1937 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for 1937. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Museums Museums Sumatran Rhino p.3 A whole case was devoted to mounted heads of Malayan big game, with which are displayed photographs of Selangor presented by Mr. Theodore Hubback. Two magnificent Seladang heads are included together with Banteng, Wild Pig and rhinoceros   details Anonymous 1937 Expeditie naar den Goenoeng Leuser in Atjeh. Indische Gids 59 (1): 561-562 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino On Goenoeng Loeser, the people still hunt the badaks regularly. Mr Clements has found recent tracks of rhino on the western slopes of G. Loeser.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Now it cannot be denied that the rhino was once numerous in the Ulu Rejang, Ulu Baram and Ulu Trusan; without going into statistics each river even ten years ago was good for them from ten to twenty pairs of horns annually. There are almost none now, and in fact, after a prolonged visit to the U...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefying all t...   details Dollman, J.G. 1937 Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The record specimens in the Museum collection, which are two front horns, measure 32 1/8 and 27 1/8 inches respectively.   details Dammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Museum Buitenzorg. A mounted head from Lampongs, front horn measured along front curve, length 22.2 cm.   details Antonius, O. 1937 Bilder aus dem frueheren und jetzigen Schonbrunner Tierbestand, I. Nashorner. Zoologische Garten 9 (1/2): 18-26, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1937 Rhinoceros shot near Kuala Lipis. Straits Times (Singapore) 26 September 1937: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is scarce.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is rare in this region.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Plans to establish a game reserve on the Tanggamoes, especially due to the occurrence of the one-horned rhinoceros (in Way Kambas and surrounding area), have not been formed into a definitive proposal.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino This area which encloses the 2300 m high Boekit Raja may soon become a reserve. This reserve is specially meant for the rhinoceros which is still rather common.   details Rappard, W.F. 1936 Naar de nieuwe meren van Soeoh, II. Tropische Natuur 25 (7): 108-113, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino We travel through the forest of the Zuid Sumatra nature reserve, which is the link between the forest reserves of Sekintjan and Penentoh within it. We see a rhino track, belonging to the Sumatran rhino with two horns judging from the size of the tracks.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Elephant and rhinoceros are rather common in the subdivision Indragiri.   details Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino on his expedition to shoot sondaicus at Erong River, passed Lima Blas. He says, p. 441, he reached Lima Blas estate, a large oil palm concern, French owned. There was a Danish manager, Mr. Iversen, with assistants Mr. Talau and Mr. Hine. It is not far from the Bernam River.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Early in 1935 a patrol led by Lt. Scheepens destroyed a number of rhinoceros traps of the local population in places which were supposed to be within the border of the Gn. L?ser reserve. There are only a few patrol maps of this region and the reserve was only indicated by a line on a map of 1913...   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1936 Het wildreservaat Zuid-Sumatra I. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 159-162 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino This is the third game reserve to be declared, in the Residencies of Bekoelen and Lampongsche Districten, area of about 357.000 ha. Rhinoceroses occur here.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Forest reserve Dolok Sembilin (in Tapanoeli) could be made into a reserve. There are in this area rhinoceroses.   details Endert, F.H. 1936 Het wildreservaat 'Berbak' in Djambi. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 137-139, figs. 15-17 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Berbak reserve with an area of 190.000 ha has been declared a game reserve. It is known that the region still has rhinoceros, tapir and wild buffalo.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There is little hunting in the region. Elephants and rhinoceros occur sporadically.   details Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Searching for sondaicus in Malaysia. On the fourth day while some eight miles north-east of camp, two Sakais caught me up and produced a 8 ? inch stick which was declared to be the measurement of a fresh rhino track that they had found. Although this was a bit small for a sondaicus track, I dec...   details Morris, R.C. 1936 To Malaya for a rhinoceros. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (3): 439-446, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino We later came on a heap of the rhino's faeces, somewhat similar to horse's droppings. It is well known to a rhino poacher that a rhinoceros is wont to return to the same spot to defecate, a habit it shares with some of the antelopes, and this, as often as not, leads to its destruction, the poac...   details Endert, F.H.; Dahler, E. 1935 Jaarverslag over 1933. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1933-1934: 7-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino From the Southern and Eastern Division from Borneo it is reported that the new game ordinance is strictly followed. Several offenders have been sentenced.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino They have decreased in Mulu as elsewhere. Saw fresh tracks near the summit.   details Burgess, H.E. 1935 Early days in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38 (2): 241-257 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In recent years one of these was shot by the Sultan of Johore and , i was told, about that time, that another had been killed by an assistant on a rubber estate who got into trouble about it. The Sultan is very jealous as regards the protection of animals in his own jungles, and great credit is ...   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhino had jumped from one side of the narrow path to the other, leaving no footmarks amongst ours in the middle and tunnelled a passage for itself down the mountain side through the thick moss covered bushes.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Found fresh tracks on Mt. Mulu between 6-7000 feet at the summit.   details Sumual 1935 Rhinoceros neergelegd [close to Palembang]. Indische Courant 2 July 1935 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Foran, W.R. 1935 Malayan symphony: Being the impressions gathered during a six months' journey through the Straits settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java and Bali. London, Hutchinson and Co, pp. 1-302 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Singapore Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Netherlands Indies Government 1935 Decree no.18 dated 29 October 1935 to the establishment of the game reserve Berbak in Djambi, Sumatra. Staatsblad van Nederlandsch-Indie 1935 no. 521: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Conservation Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1935 De geschoten rhinoceros, onder den rook van Palembang [two-horned rhino shot by Sumual]. Algemeen handelsblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie 1937-07-19: 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Kok, (Korporaal) 1935 De tweehoornige - zeldzame rhinoceros vlakbij Palembang - de jachtbuit van den Korporaal Kok. Locomotief 19-07-1935: 4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino it also occurred in Assam from which province it is now practically exterminated.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Two-horned Rhinoceros was once fairly common throughout Burma   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino At the present time a few inhabit the forests of Lower Tenasserim and the hill tracts about Myitkyina, the Arrakan Hills and the Pegu Yomas.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off, their movements being affected by the water supply. They enter streams by night and also during the hot hours of the day. The night and early morning is spent in wandering about and feeding; the hot hours of the day in rest in som...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather find rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs, shoots and are very partial to fallen fruit: wild mangoes, citrous fruits and figs.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The Two-horned Rhinoceros, like the Lesser One-horned species has a preference for forested hill tracts where it wanders up to considerable elevations. A sufficiency of shade and a good supply of water are essential to its habitat. A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino A pair will frequent a given area for a time and. then move off, their movements being affected by the water supply. They visit the wallows singly or a bull and a cow may be found together.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Tracks lead off in all directions from these 'wallows'. They present the appearance of large tunnels hollowed through the dense undergrowth. Unlike the elephant, a rhinoceros does not break through the jungle but burrows his way through the dense tangle.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino In the cold weather find rains they visit the low country coming down in search of particular foods. They are not grazers but browse on twigs, shoots and are very partial to fallen fruit: wild mangoes, citrous fruits and figs.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino In suitable spots there are regular wallows or 'mud baths' in which the huge creatures roll much as buffaloes and pigs do. Aa a result of this habit their bodies are always well coated with mud. Tracks lead off in all directions from these 'wallows'.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Little is known about their breeding habits but it is known that the young remain with the mother to a fairly advanced age.   details Munnecke, W. 1934 A l'affût dans la jungle (Sumatra). Paris, Editions des Portiques Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Captivity Sumatran Rhino Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Selatan/Palembang (3°S 105°E) - 1925 - Présents - Collecte d'animaux pour Hagenbeck ( Hambourg ) - 1 femelle tuée, le petit aboutira au Zoo de Madras Cf Rhinos in captivity de K. Rookmaaker (p. 118 ) - (CARINO No. 184 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO ...   details Mjoeberg, E. 1934 Bornéo: L'île des chasseurs de têtes. Paris, Plon Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino Asia/Malaysia/Borneo/Sarawak/Lio Matoh/Haut cours du Baram (fl.) vers le Mont Merud (3°N 115°E) - 1927 - Présents - Rencontres ( p. 156/173 ) - Ethologie - Chasse avec flèches empoisonnées ( p. 246 ) - (CARINO No. 637 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieu...   details Anonymous 1934 The Pinjih rhino. Straits Times (Singapore) 30 December 1934: 4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of the Salween and Tenasserim drainages and in a few other remote hill tracts. In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceros are difficult animals to track because it is difficult to judge their probable line with the accuracy possible in the case of most other animals. The wretched creatures will as soon walk through a bush as round it; will on occasion totally disregard contours, and. will usually follow ...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Senses Sumatran Rhino The senses of smell and hearing are very good.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of the Salween and Tenasserim drainages and in a few other remote hill tracts. In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. In the days before the advent of fire-arms the Sumatran rhinoceros must have been fairly common throughout Burma.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of the Pegu Yomas In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino One shot in 1930 in Burma for BMNH. Hairy throughout, but less hairy on face and head; very hairy on legs and ears. A thick fringe of hairs along the flattened survace at the tip of the tail. The hairs are thinly distributed and reveal the underlying skin.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Average length about 10 feet (average of 3 shot in Burma), Largest 10 feet 2 inches.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches   details Voogd, C.N.A. de 1933 De rhinoceros uit Zuid Sumatra nu bijna verdwenen. Tropische Natuur 22 (8): 159-160 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino South Sumatra. I can only conclude that since (or through?) the hunting expeditions of Hazewinkel in 1925 the numbers of rhinos greatly reduced. From 1927 to 1933 I have much wandered aroun the forests of South Sumatra. During all that time I not only never met with a rhinoceros, but even its ...   details Bequaert, J. 1933 The giant ticks of the Malayan rhinoceros. Psyche 40: 137-143 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino More recently (June, 1933) Major Vernay commissioned Major Rawley to secure, if possible, another R. sondaicus. An animal believed to be of that species was located in Selangor; but, after being shot, it proved to be a Sumatran Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sumatrensis Cuvier. Again the only ectopara...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Their movements coincide largely with those of most wild animals: i.e. they feed in the early mornings, evenings and part of the night-and lie up during the day, during which time they may spend many hours in their wallows.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Wet Kyan   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Senses Sumatran Rhino The senses of smell and hearing are very good. I once watched a female rhinoceros in her wallow for nearly a quarter of an hour: she was plainly sensible of the very softest sounds.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in parts of Myitkyina, in the angle between the Chindwin and the Uyu Rivers In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Light buff on body; face, tail, outsides of legs and portions of flanks black; underparts of body, legs and lips a light flesh colour;   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. It may still be located in the Arakan Hills as far south as Bassein, In most of these areas the Sumatran rhinoceros will be found below the crests of the main watersheds in heavy evergreen forest.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou...   details Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Senses Sumatran Rhino The senses of smell and hearing are very good, but the sight is poor, probably equal to the sense of sight in elephants.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Light buff on body; face, tail, outsides of legs and portions of flanks black; underparts of body, legs and lips a light flesh colour;   details Mitchell, P.C. 1933 Official guide to the gardens and aquarium of the Zoological Society of London, 30th edition. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. 1-129 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino The so-called Hairy-eared Rhinoceros, from Chittagong, is probably the same species as the Sumatran form, and, like it, has two horns.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The weight is in the neighbourhood of 2000 pounds.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino It favours the very heaviest types of evergreen forest and is usually found near the sources of streams in remote hill forests. It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills. Unlike Rhinoceros sondaicus the Sumatran rhinoceros delights in s...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Burma. Both species of rhinoceros are addicted to breaking down and twisting saplings from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This habit is common to all, but more marked apparently in some individuals than others. Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: The food of the Sumatran rhinoceros consists mainly of variou...   details Hubback, T. 1933 Note on the Ashoka tree. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36 (4): 1023 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Ashoka tree, local name Tengelan or Tenglan, scientific Saraca sp. The flowers of the Tengland, which often grow on the bole of the tree, are eaten by the two-horned rhinoceros, which seem to appreciate them whenever they come across a tree in flower and the flowers are within their re...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino I have heard the humming sound that Burmans say this rhinoceros sometimes makes when in its wallow, but from so great a distance that I am not prepared to swear to the fact. From close quarters I have heard them utter harsh grunts, and one that I had shot emitted loud whistling screams that coul...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Burma, Gestation period 8 months   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma. The tracks of male and female rhinoceros are identical. Indications of a large horn may be apparent in the deep holes and gashes sometimes made in the banks of wallows, and in the excessive twisting of saplings. The manner in which urine is dropped sometimes serves as an indication of s...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino One shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. The heavy folds of skin behind the shoulder, on the flank and round the neck, and other peculiarities of shape and structure are clearly seen in the illustration on Plate VI.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma - Confusion with other species. The three-toed tracks of a rhinoceros cannot be confused, even on a poor surface, with any animal except tapir and, perhaps, a young elephant. The tapir has four toes on the fore-feet but, since the impressions of the hindfeet usually cover those of the for...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino It is very active for so heavy a beast and prefers steep, rather than low or moderately steep, hills.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino One shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. The heavy folds of skin behind the shoulder, on the flank and round the neck, and other peculiarities of shape and structure are clearly seen in the illustration on Plate VI.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma. The tracks of male and female rhinoceros are identical. Indications of a large horn may be apparent in the deep holes and gashes sometimes made in the banks of wallows, and in the excessive twisting of saplings. The manner in which urine is dropped sometimes serves as an indication of s...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino One shot in 1930 in Burma for BMNH. Hairy throughout, but less hairy on face and head; very hairy on legs and ears. A thick fringe of hairs along the flattened survace at the tip of the tail. The hairs are thinly distributed and reveal the underlying skin.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology Sumatran Rhino Burma - Confusion with other species. The three-toed tracks of a rhinoceros cannot be confused, even on a poor surface, with any animal except tapir and, perhaps, a young elephant. The tapir has four toes on the fore-feet but, since the impressions of the hindfeet usually cover those of the for...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Large collections, of rhinoceros dung are commonly found and show that these animals, when not disturbed, are accustomed to return to the same spot for this purpose. I have seen a collection of their droppings nearly 2 feet high and 4 feet across.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Its wallows are generally found in the pockets of hills at the sources of streams springing from high and remote watershed. The wallows vary in size from a shallow depression scarcely larger than the animal itself, and apparently individual to itself, to ones 20 or 30 feet across which are used ...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The front horns of males average 7 or 8 inches and those of females about 3 inches. I have never seen a horn, in Burma, over 10 inches in length. There are two specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, however, in which the front horns measure 32 ? inches and 27 inches. Such horns w...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Burma. I have never seen or heard of more than one calf at heel, but it is certain that the calves remain with the mothers to an advanced age.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Burma. It is certain that the calves remain with the mothers to an advanced age. The Shans, with whom I hunted, used to say that the scarcity of rhinoceros was largely due to the fact that the mothers are accustomed to treat their young in a very brutal fashion; frequently tossing them over the...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The posterior horns of males average about 3 inches and those of females are mere knobs.   details Coenraad-Uhlig, V. 1933 Vom Gefangenleben eines jungen Nashorns. Zoologische Garten 6 (4/6): 114-116, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (36)  ... 23 24 25 26 27 ...