File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Average height 4 feet 3 inches (average of 3 specimens shot in Burma). Largest 4 feet 8 inches high.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Tail only 1 foot 9 inches
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File AvailablePycraft, W.P. 1933 A plea for the rhinoceros. Illustrated London News 1933 June 17: 897
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Asia
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The distribution is extensive but the density is low.
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Subject:
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Mounted hide. Sex: Female. Locality: Java. From Ward's Natural Science Establishment, 1880. In coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
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File AvailableKeller, E. 1932 De neushoorn in Borneo. Tropische Natuur 21 (12): 229
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Witkamp remarked that the rhinoceros does not occur south of the Mahakam River. While surveying the area between Balikpapan and Samarinda, I did not only see many old and new tracks of the rhinoceros, I even saw an individual. The footprints had a diameter of over 20 cm. I saw the animal in a ...
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
De Beaufort (1928) gives an account of a complete skeleton, presented to the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, that was procured by a Mr. Keith, 250 kilometers South-West of Palembang, on that island.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1932 De nieuw ontdekte orang pendek. Tropische Natuur 21 (8): 123-131, figs. 1-3
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Tengkoe Ibrahim, chief of Rokan, told me that in 1912 he went to the Simalamboe mountains, partly within his territory, to hunt rhinos. As the animal is very shy and has a sharp sense of smell, they wore dark clothes and had rubbed leaves on their body to mask their body odour. The rhinoceros h...
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File AvailableWitkamp, J. 1932 Wildreservaten in Koetai. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 84-86, fig. 11
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the subdivisions West Kutai, rhinos only occur in the northern part in the area north of the parellel passing over Long Bleh on the Belajan River. In East Kutai the distribution stretches more to the south to the Makaham River. There are no rhinos south of these rivers in Kutai. In the nort...
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File AvailableWitkamp, J. 1932 Wildreservaten in Koetai. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 84-86, fig. 11
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
in the South and East province of Kalimantan. Rhinoceros live on the slopes of the mountains along the border and also in the mountainous forets of the subdivisions of Tidoengsche Landen, Boelongan, Apo-Kajan, Beraoe, West Koetia, Pasir, Tandjong and Kota Waringin. The distribution is wide but ...
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File AvailableHobley, C.W.; Shebbeare, E.O. 1932 The rhinoceros. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 20-21
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A few in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bengal.
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File AvailableHobley, C.W.; Shebbeare, E.O. 1932 The rhinoceros. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 20-21
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Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A few in Assam (Lushai and Tappara Hills)
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In Kutai, the wide Mahakam River is a divide, south of which the rhino does not occur. For the upper reaches of the river, where it is much narrower, i.e. in the subdivision of Boven-Mahakam, this is no longer correct. Rhinos occur in the mpountains on the upper reaches of the rivers Belajan, K...
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It may be said, also, that the evidence for its occurrence in Borneo is far from good, being based in part on native report (see Sclater, 1869).
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Kutai region in SE Kalimantan, near Samarinda.
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File AvailableMilroy, A.J.W. 1932 Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38
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Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis . Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais ...
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File AvailableStrugnell, E.J.; Willbourn, E.S. 1932 An ascent of Gunung Benom from Raub. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9: 15-27
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
On the ridge at 5500 feet high, saw fresh tracks of rhinoceros, which they follow up the mountain.
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File AvailableMilroy, A.J.W. 1932 Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38
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Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The opening up by forest villagers of several big patches of marshy land in the Forest Reserves of South Cachar seriously reduced the number of suitable haunts available for this species. Most of the remaining patches, however, will have to be kept closed to cultivation in order to preserve feed...
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File AvailableMilroy, A.J.W. 1932 Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais to return.
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File AvailableHobley, C.W.; Shebbeare, E.O. 1932 The rhinoceros. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 17: 20-21
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Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. A few surviving in Assam (Lushai and Tappara hills).
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File AvailableMilroy, A.J.W. 1932 Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Formerly common in the Lushai and Manipur Hills and occasionally found in North Cachar, but by now almost hunted to the vanishing point by Lushais and Kukis. The record flood of July 1929 drove the rhino up into the hills and very few have been allowed by the Lushais t...
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File AvailableBarbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. The second was a female, killed April 16, 1924, at Kuala Serukoi, near Telok Anson, in Perak, by an unlice...
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File AvailableKeller, E. 1932 De neushoorn in Borneo. Tropische Natuur 21 (12): 229
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Witkamp remarked that the rhinoceros does not occur south of the Mahakam River. While surveying the area between Balikpapan and Samarinda, I did not only see many old and new tracks of the rhinoceros, I even saw an individual. The footprints had a diameter of over 20 cm.
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File AvailableStrugnell, E.J.; Willbourn, E.S. 1932 An ascent of Gunung Benom from Raub. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9: 15-27
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
On the ridge at 5500 feet high, saw fresh tracks of rhinoceros, which they follow up the mountain.
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
In the mountains near the source of the Telen, visited in 1925 by the Midden-Oost-Borneo expedition, only scarce tracks were found, partly at 2000 m high, and we found the same on the upper reach of the Atan, a tributary of the Klindjau.
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File AvailableDover, C. 1932 The duration of life of some Indian animals. Indian Forester 58 (2): 81-90
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Species:
Captive
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
Four records of R. sumatrensis show a life between 10 and 35 years.
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File AvailableWitkamp, H. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in het landschap Koetai. Tropische Natuur 21 (10): 167-177, map 1
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
We saw often the feeding remnants of these animals, which are much like those of an elephant, but they are smaller in size. We remember how it occurred to us that in many cases a young rotan had grown from a dung ball, which obviously was a fertile ground for it.
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File AvailableZondag, L.J.P. 1932 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in de Zuider- en Oosterafdeeling van Borneo. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1929-1931: 82-83, map 1
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 Sumatran rhinoceros in a zoo. Sumatra Post 3 August 1932: 2
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Captive
Captivity
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableHazewinkel, J.C. 1932 Drie heilige olifanten: een spannende jacht. Sumatra Post 5 July 1932: 2
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1932 Two of the finest animals found in Burma's forests. Field 1932 February 6: 183
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1932 Two of the finest animals found in Burma's forests. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4128), 1932 February 6: 185
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableAnonymous 1932 The rarest rhino (in Malaysia). Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 159 (4129), 1932 February 13: 223
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Burma, Shwe U Daung. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1931 Further records of the one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay States. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 5: 102, pl. 6
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
An individual of the one-horned rhinoceros, of which the head is preserved in the Federated Malay States Police Mess at Kuala Lumpur, was shot at Ujong Permatang, Selangor, in 1927. The head was badly set up and is therefore not reproduced.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
4. Female 'Begum', type of lasiotis, captured in Jan. 1868 sixteen hours march south of Chittagong. She was then considered 'adult' or 'at least 2 years old'
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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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
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. They break down and twist small saplings along the routes favoured by them. On one occasion I saw a small sapling that had, in some amazing manner, been twisted into a simple knot.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Subject:
Species:
World
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
Longevity in zoos. 4. Female 'Begum', type of lasiotis, captured in Jan. 1868 sixteen hours march south of Chittagong. She was then considered 'adult' or 'at least 2 years old', arrived London Zoo 14.2.1872, died 31.8.1900, after 28 years, 6 months and 16 days, total longevity in captivity 32 y...
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Burma. R. sumatrensis spends most of its time in the heaviest forest it can find and only occasionally climbs onto the open grass-clad ridges and spurs which are a feature of the sanctuary at elevations above 4000 feet.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Species:
Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
longevity in zoos. 1. lasiotis in Calcutta Zoo (Sanyal 1872), circa 10 yrs
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File AvailablePeacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet.
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
sumatrensis wander generally in pairs, and a former experience was duplicated in that the mate returned to the body of the one killed a few minutes after the shooting, and had to be driven off by a shot fired over the head.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Species:
Captive
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
1. lasiotis in Calcutta Zoo (Sanyal 1872), circa 10 yrs 2. Female in Madras Zoo (Flower 1914), circa 14 years, and left alive 3. Male (lasiotis) London Zoo, 27.4.1886-22.11.1910, total 24 yrs, 6 mo, 25 days 4. Female 'Begum', type of lasiotis, captured in Jan. 1868 sixteen hours march south of...
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Species:
Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
longevity in zoos. 2. Female in Madras Zoo (Flower 1914), circa 14 years, and left alive
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Male shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. much rubbed and worn horns of which the front horn is 7 inches in length along the curve from base to tip.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1931 Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals, V. Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1931 (1): 145-234
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Subject:
Species:
Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
Longevity in zoos. 3. Male (lasiotis) London Zoo, 27.4.1886-22.11.1910, total 24 yrs, 6 mo, 25 days 4. Female 'Begum', type of lasiotis, captured in Jan. 1868 sixteen hours march south of Chittagong. She was then considered 'adult' or 'at least 2 years old', arrived London Zoo 14.2.1872, died ...
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File AvailablePeacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Animal shot in Burma for BMNH in 1930. Height 4 ft 5 inches (male)
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File AvailableBanks, E. 1931 A popular account of the mammals of Borneo. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9 (2): 1-139, pls. 11-19, map 1
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableZondag, L.J.P. 1931 Het voorkomen van eenige diersoorten in de Zuider- en Oosterafdeeling van Borneo. Tropische Natuur 20 (12): 221-223, map 1
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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Munnecke, W. 1931 Mit Hagenbeck im Dschungel. Berlin, August Scherl, pp. 1-203
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableNieuwenhuis, A.W. 1931 Nederland's roeping in Indie. Tropisch Nederland 4 (18), 285-288
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMjoberg, E.; Barwell, A. 1930 Forest life and adventures in the Malay Archipelago. William Morrow & Co, New York: 1-201, 83 plates, 1 map
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
General - Popular works
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In 1925, from S. Boh towards Long Nawang. We walked through real forest. A rhinoceros and three Borneo buffalo had crossed our path without disturbing us.
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
1922, On Baram River towards Mt. Moeroed, in Kalabiten country, ca. 3.30 N, 115.20 E. The locals rumoured that the rhinoceros occurs here sporadically, but we did not see it.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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File AvailableMjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In September 1925, on the rapids of S. Boh, close to Kubu Long Bakung. Fresh tracks of rhinoceros were reported.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Subject:
Species:
World
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
During the course of this day's journey we were agreeably surprised to find a sort of ready-made path cleared, as far as one could guess, for our special benefit; on either side of the track the bushes were sprinkled with mud. On making enquiries I was told that a rhinoceros or some other large ...
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Subject:
Species:
Europe
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Bornean Rhinoceros
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He frequents the foothills below the mountains.
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Borneo. He has two horns and his hair is tough and bristly, almost like fine wire.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1929 List of vertebrated animals exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1828-1927 Centenary edition, vol. I. Mammals. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. i-ix, 1-419
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Species:
Captive - Europe
Value
Sumatran Rhino
London Zoo. First purchased in 1872 for ?1250; second in 1872 for ?600
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File AvailableHose, C. 1929 The field-book of a jungle-wallah, being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Sumatran Rhino
He comes down in the heat of the day to take his ease in what are called 'salt-licks', muddy baths formed by springs of saltish water. The clearing and the mud of the bushes were, as I was told, caused by the creature's trampling movement on his way home to his lair higher up the hills. My info...
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1929 List of vertebrated animals exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1828-1927 Centenary edition, vol. I. Mammals. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. i-ix, 1-419
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
The first received was a female purchased 14 Feb 1872 for ?1250 from Mr William Jamrach; it died 31 Aug 1900 and was the type of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater. A second female, purchased 2 Aug 1872 for ?600 from Mr W. Jamrach was considered to be R. sumatrensis.
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Waterschot van der Gracht, W.A.J.M. van 1928 Piek van Indrapoera. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 5: 56-58
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Sumatran Rhino
The locals say that rhinos are numerous.
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Coomans de Ruiter, L. 1928 Wildreservaten in Zuid-Sumatra en in de Minahasa. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 4: 32-39
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
I hear that rhinos have been spotted in that part of the Niroe Reserve which lies in the Lematang Ilir subdivision. A few rhino were found in the southern part of that reserve.
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File AvailableBeaufort, L.F. de 1928 On the occurrence of Rhinoceros sondaicus Desm. in Sumatra. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging (3) 1 (2): 43-44
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
From Borneo also some very doubtful records of the occurrence have been published. G. Buck described at length two subfossil molars from Serawak, as belonging to this species. Everett failed to get any informations on the occurrence of the javanese Rhino in Borneo, but thought it not impossible...
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Coomans de Ruiter, L. 1928 Wildreservaten in Zuid-Sumatra en in de Minahasa. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 4: 32-39
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the subdivision Ogan oeloe the rhino occurs. In the division Batoeradja, Palembang, the last rhino was shot early 1927 and since that time I have heard no rumours of the existence of rhino in Ogan Oeloe. That rhino was shot by ex-Lieutenant Hazewinkel. Since the rhino is valuable, it is sur...
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File AvailableDollman, J.G. 1928 A young Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History Magazine 1: 255-258, fig. 1
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1928 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Field 151, 1928 February 23: 338, fig. 1
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Sumatran Rhino
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Buys, D.W. 1927 Het hoofd (prauwen) bivak Long Petah: pp. 41-54, figs. 16-21

In: Anonymous Midden-Oost-Borneo Expeditie 1925. Weltevreden, G. Kolff and Co: pp. i-v, 1-423
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
7 Aug 1925, Sgt. Sembel and myself and 2 dayaks climb the Kong Kemoel. It was not an easy climb, there was no path, and we therefore used a `djalan binatang', on which we saw tracks of the badak, in the form of their tracks and feces.
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Endert, F.H. 1927 Reisverslag: pp. 135-199, figs. 38-66

In: Anonymous Midden-Oost-Borneo Expeditie 1925. Weltevreden, G. Kolff and Co: pp. i-v, 1-423
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
Visit to Long Petak, on the Telen River. Of rhinoceros I only found some old traces on the Kemoel. = Kong Kemoel, 1847m, 1.50 N, 9.25 East of Batavia.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis occurs in Sumatra
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File AvailableWells, C. 1927 Six years in the Malay jungle. London, Heinemann, pp. i-xiii, 1-261
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Two species of rhinoceros are known. The smaller two-horned species at one time formed an article of export from the Dindings. Of the one-horned Javan variety only three or four individuals from the southern districts of Perak are extant in collections. It appears to be dying out.
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Hamerster, M. 1926 Bijdrage tot de kennis van de afdeeling Asahan. Mededelingen des Oostkust van Sumatra Instituut 13: 1-204
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The one-horned rhinoceros is found in the upper regions of the Koealoe.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1926 The fauna of Durian and the Rhio-Lingga archipelago. Treubia 8 (3/4): 281-326
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Fauna of Durian and Rhio-Lingga archipelago. Mr Boden Kloss was told by people living on Pulo Galang that there was a rhinoceros on Abang Besar.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1925 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for 1925. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Two large cases have been installed in the mammal gallery. One of these contains the mounted specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis which has been on exhibition for many years: the skin has been renovated to some extent but the need for a fresh specimen remains.
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File AvailableHubback, T. 1925 Big game shooting. In: Sport and motoring in Malaya, pp. 11-32, London, Malay States Information Agency
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
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Malpuech, U. 1925 Le Laos touristique. Hanoi, Imprimerie d' Extrême-Orient Hanoï
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
1925 - Rarissimes sinon EW ( p. 77 ) - Peut-être des épizooties Cf. Carino 227 - (CARINO No. 652 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011)
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Museums - North America
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Pegu Yomas. Collected by: A.S. Vernay. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
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File AvailableBruce, C. 1924 Twenty years in Borneo. London etc., Cassell and Co, pp. i-xi, 1-266
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Tempasuk Dt., rhinoceros and wild cattle are found occasionally in the wilder country on the northern and eastern boundaries of the district.
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Hunt of female Dicerorhinus sumatrensis for AMNH. In the July-August issue of Natural History, p. 527, allusion was made to a cable sent by Mr. Arthur S. Vernay, in which he announced that he had secured a female and young male of the rare Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). In a le...
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File AvailableVernay, A.S. 1924 Hunting the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History 24 (5): 625-627, figs. 1-2
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the July-August issue of Natural History, p. 527, allusion was made to a cable sent by Mr. Arthur S. Vernay, in which he announced that he had secured a female and young male of the rare Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). These rhinos are very carefully protected because of the...
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File AvailableBeeckman, D. 1924 A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies. With a description of the said island: giving an account of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, relion, product, chief ports, and trade. Together with the re-establishment of the English trade there, An. 1714, after our Factory had been destroyed by the Banjareens some years before: pp. 112-118

In: Botha, C.G. Collectanea first series. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works vol. 5: pp. 1-13
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMayer, C. 1924 Jungle beasts I have captured. Garden City, Double Day, Page and Co.
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Captivity
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableGeuns, van 1923 Rhinoceros geschoten [at Tandjong Poera]. Sumatra Post 8 April 1923
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableElshout, J.M. 1923 Over de geneeskunde der Kenja-Dajak in Centraal-Borneo in verband met hunnen godsdienst. Amsterdam, Johannes Muller
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Kalimantan
Value
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableE.M.W. 1923 The Singpho rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 142 (3702), 1923 December 6: 805
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
When I was on the Kuki Operations in 1919, in the unadministered territory between the Upper Chindwin near Homalin and Manipur, I was told by the Nagas of the existence of what they described as an animal like an elephant, but possessing a horn instead of a trunk. They told me that one of these a...
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File AvailableKreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros is relatively rare.
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File AvailableJongejans, J. 1922 Ons mooi Indie: uit Dajakland, kijkjes in het leven van den koppensneller en zijne omgeving. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, pp. 1-290
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
In Long Oeroek, in Apo Kajan, we found in the house of Boi Djalong a very long rhinoceros horn. [size not given]
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File AvailableEvans, I.H.N. 1922 Among the primitive peoples in Borneo. London, Seeley, pp. 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
mountain range in Western Sabah. There may be an occasional rhinoceros on the range which runs from Kinabalu in the direction of Kudat [6.54 N, 116.50 E]
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File AvailableEvans, I.H.N. 1922 Among the primitive peoples in Borneo. London, Seeley, pp. 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There may be an occasional rhinoceros on the range which runs from Kinabalu in the direction of Kudat. [Kudat, 06.54 N, 116.50 E]
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File AvailableKreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Volz found the rhinoceros on the northern slopes of the Goudberg, the dorado for large game.
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