File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish.
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Sumatran Rhino
the head is 0.70 m
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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World
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros lives solitary or sometimes in pairs in the densest parts of the forest, where it visits early in the morning and at dusk the edges of the low forest. During most of the day, especially around noon, it immerses in the swamp or in a wallow which he frequently visits.
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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World
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
In size, its length from the tip of the snout to the start of the tail is 2.48 m, the head is 0.70 m, the tail 0.32 m and the height 1.35 m.
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
The animal also occurs in Borneo and is said to be especially numerous in the mountain range near the sources of the southern tributaries of the Upper Kapoeas and the Melawi Rivers. The natives tell about a species with three horns and Mr Pryer once saw a skull with three horns, although the thi...
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1914 Report on a zoological mission to India in 1913. Cairo, Government Press (Zoological Service, Publication no 26.), pp. i-viii, 1-100, pls. 1-12
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
a male sumatrensis, received from the Straits settlements in 1909, and still tame enough to allow his keeper to sit on his back.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1914 Report on a zoological mission to India in 1913. Cairo, Government Press (Zoological Service, Publication no 26.), pp. i-viii, 1-100, pls. 1-12
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
1 female which has been here now for about 14 years.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1914 Report on a zoological mission to India in 1913. Cairo, Government Press (Zoological Service, Publication no 26.), pp. i-viii, 1-100, pls. 1-12
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
one Rhinoceros lasiotis
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
the height 1.35 m.
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File AvailableBalen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
The tail 0.32 m
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File AvailableWilliams, J.P. 1914 Big game in Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 124 (3235), 1914 December 26: 1068
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableSarawak, Ranee of 1913 My life in Sarawak. London, Methuen and Co
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableHose, C.; MacDougall, W. 1912 The pagan tribes of Borneo: a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition with some discussion of their ethnic relations. London, MacMillan, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-283
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Taxonomy - Nomenclature
Sumatran Rhino
In Borneo the rhinoceros (R. borniensis, closely allied to R. sumatranus). On p.143 noted presence of a small rhinoceros (R. sumatranus).
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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World
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
On geographic grounds one would expect the Sumatran species to be more nearly related to the other Asiatic than to the African types. And this is the case. The better-known distinguishing points between the two categories of Asiatic species are supplied by the number of horns, the development of...
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File AvailableLewin, T.H. 1912 A fly on the wheel: or, how I helped to govern India. London, Constable, [first edn 1885]
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableCabrera, A. 1911 De algunas cornamentas notables que se conservan en el Museo de Ciencias de Madrid. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 11: 140-142
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Asia
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Anterior horn. Locality: traded from Philippines. In coll. Museo de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
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File AvailableCabrera, A. 1911 De algunas cornamentas notables que se conservan en el Museo de Ciencias de Madrid. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 11: 140-142
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Anterior horn. Locality: traded from Philippines. In coll. Museo de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1911 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected by Dr W.L. Abbott on Borneo and some of the small adjacent islands. Proceedings of the US National Museum 40: 53-146, pls. 1-7
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A few rhinoceroses are said to inhabit the upper Sempang about batu Dayeu (or Dajeuh).- ca. 0.50 S, 110.12 E
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1911 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected by Dr W.L. Abbott on Borneo and some of the small adjacent islands. Proceedings of the US National Museum 40: 53-146, pls. 1-7
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Rhinoceroses are said to inhabit the lowlands about the base of Palung. - 1.12 S, 110.09 E
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1911 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected by Dr W.L. Abbott on Borneo and some of the small adjacent islands. Proceedings of the US National Museum 40: 53-146, pls. 1-7
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A few rhinoceroses are said to inhabit the neighbourhood of Mount Kedio.2.20 S, 110.17 E.
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File AvailableGomes, E.H. 1911 Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: a record of intimiate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. i-xx, 21-343
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The elephant and the rhinoceros seem to be confined to the north end of the island.
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File AvailableCabrera, A. 1911 De algunas cornamentas notables que se conservan en el Museo de Ciencias de Madrid. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 11: 140-142
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World
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Anterior horn in Museum Madrid, long thought to be R. simus, but re-identified by shape and colour, length of horn 920 mm
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File AvailableLyon, M.W. Jr. 1911 Mammals collected by Dr W.L. Abbott on Borneo and some of the small adjacent islands. Proceedings of the US National Museum 40: 53-146, pls. 1-7
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableMerens, D. 1910 De Bem Brem stroomversnellingen. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 27: 529-558, figs. 1-14, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Along Bem Brem rapids of Kajan River, In the beginning we got several animals during our hunts, like deer, hornbills and even a rhinoceros, but after a while nothing could be encountered.
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File AvailableFischer, L.S. 1910 Tochten naar Boven-Boeloengan en de Apo-Kajan (Zuider- en Ooster-Afdeeling van Borneo). Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 27: 263-306, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
He travelled to the Upper Boeloengan and Apo Kajan, from the mouth of the Kalangan River to the upper part of the Beta River, the Ma koelits from Apo Kajan had made a road along the river which was recognisable. During this part of the journey, we killed a rhinoceros, a bear, a wild dog, kidangs...
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Skin thinly clad with long hairs.
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File AvailableBoelsche, W. 1909 Het paard in zijne natuurlijke ontwikkeling. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme and Cie, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Europe
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Ruwoorneushoorn
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File AvailableBoelsche, W. 1909 Het paard in zijne natuurlijke ontwikkeling. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme and Cie, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Europe
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Sumatraanse Neushoorn
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Brownish.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Sumatran Rhino
Brownish.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Skin thinly clad with long hairs.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
Skin thinly clad with long hairs, granular, slightly folded, brownish. Two horns, the foremost largest. Height at shoulder 4 feet.
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File AvailableBoelsche, W. 1909 Het paard in zijne natuurlijke ontwikkeling. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme and Cie, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
I saw a living example of this mainland form in the London Zoo. It already lived there for quite some time, and a female of the same species which died there in 1900 had lived there for 32 years. The front horn was a big and strong weapon, in comparison with the small body, and the second one w...
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File AvailableBoelsche, W. 1909 Het paard in zijne natuurlijke ontwikkeling. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme and Cie, pp. i-viii, 1-216
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
Similar to the example drawn by M?tzel (in Hecks Thierreich), there is a Sumatran Rhinoceros which I saw many years ago in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, only it was more hairy.
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Height at shoulder 4 feet, Malaysia
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File AvailableRoman, M.F. 1909 Sur une crane de rhinoceros conserve au Musee de Nerac (Lot-et-Garonne) (Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus) sansaniensis Lartet). Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon ND 57: 117-130, pl. 1, figs. 1-3
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Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableAnonymous 1909 Gleneagle's menagerie (for Rangoon Zoo). Straits Times, Singapore 20 October 1909: 6
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Captive
Captivity
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableO'Malley, L.S.S. 1909 Eastern Bengal District gazetteers: Chittagong. Calcutta, bengal Secretariat
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
[13] The Sumatran rhinoceros, which has two horns and a hairy coat, has been caught alive on several occasions; a specimen of the hairy-eared rhinoceros (R.lasiotis) has been sent to the Zoological Gardens in London.
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File AvailableW.S. 1909 Shikar: after gaur and rhinoceros (in Burma). Amrita Bazar Patrika 1909 December 28: 2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableHutchinson, R.H.S. 1909 Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts. Allahabad, Government Press
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
The two-horned variety of rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros sumatrensis) is to be met with in the valleys of the Thega and Kasalong rivers
Hutchinson, R.H.S., 1909. Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts. Allahabad.
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore

[Note: Henry Osmund Rowe, 1869 to 1914, died in a mental hospital aged 45. He had 7 children some born in Malaya and one Stanley Ernest was born in Sandakan in 1899.]
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Stuffed skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Perak. Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The Raffles Museum. Singapore has 2 skeletons, one of them from N. Borneo, presented in 1901 by Mr. Rowe.
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Museums - Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Stuffed skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Perak. Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Museums - Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Museums - Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Collected by: Mr. Rowe, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Stuffed skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Perak. Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria, 1901. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak Kerbau
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1908 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected in Eastern Sumatra by Dr W.L. Abbott during 1903, 1906, and 1907, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Proceedings of the US National Museum 34: 619-679, pls. 52-56
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Tigers never occur in Rupat, nor do elephants or rhinoceroses cross the straits, although they are common upon the mainland.
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The museum possesses a stuffed specimen from Perak, a female, presented in 1901 by Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria in that time.
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1908 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected in Eastern Sumatra by Dr W.L. Abbott during 1903, 1906, and 1907, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Proceedings of the US National Museum 34: 619-679, pls. 52-56
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
I also shot over the country about the headwaters of the Tongkam, which is covered with heavy forest extending from the Tamiang River. Saw many fresh tracks of rhinoceros here. But a Malay who had a gun was continually after them, until, before I left, I could find no more fresh tracks.
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File AvailableAbbott, W.L. 1908 Notes

In: Lyon, M.W. Jr. Mammals collected in Eastern Sumatra by Dr W.L. Abbott during 1903, 1906, and 1907, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Proceedings of the US National Museum 34: 619-679, pls. 52-56
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Tigers also exist, but no elephants or rhinoceroses.
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File AvailableLoisel, G. 1908 The zoological gardens and establishments of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution 1907: pp. 407-448, figs. 1-25
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the same House are found .. a two-horned Indian rhinoceros.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Horns. Locality: Burma, Singpho. In coll. Sir Charles Elliot, United Kingdom
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File AvailableBritish Museum (Natural History) 1907 Guide to the great game animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History)
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Species:
Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Horn. Collected by: Edward Cross, 1854. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1854.12.11.1
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File AvailableElliot, D.G. 1907 A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. Field Columbian Museum, Zoology 8: 1-694
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Museums - North America
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Sex: Male. Locality: Sumatra. Collected by: F.W. Franklin. In coll. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, USA.
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File AvailableElliot, D.G. 1907 A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. Field Columbian Museum, Zoology 8: 1-694
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Sex: Male. Locality: Sumatra. Collected by: F.W. Franklin. In coll. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, USA.
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File AvailableElliot, D.G. 1907 A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. Field Columbian Museum, Zoology 8: 1-694
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Sex: Male. Locality: Sumatra. Collected by: F.W. Franklin. In coll. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, USA.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Other specimens of the hairy-eared race have been subsequently obtained in Assam, where the species is rare; and one example has been killed in Tippera, and a second in the Bhutan Duars.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Horns. Locality: Burma, Singpho. In coll. Sir Charles Elliot, United Kingdom
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File AvailableBritish Museum (Natural History) 1907 Guide to the great game animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History)
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World
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Horn. Collected by: Edward Cross, 1854. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1854.12.11.1
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Other specimens of the hairy-eared race have been subsequently obtained in Assam, where the species is rare; and one example has been killed in Tippera, and a second in the Bhutan Duars.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Other specimens of the hairy-eared race have been subsequently obtained in Assam, where the species is rare; and one example has been killed in Tippera, and a second in the Bhutan Duars.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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World
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
At their bases the two horns are separated from one another by a considerable interval; and although in captive individuals they are generally much worn down, when fully developed they are slender for the greater part of their length, the front one curving backwards in an elegant sweep, and attai...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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World
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
As regards the cheek-teeth, those of the upper jaw are practically indistinguishable from the corresponding molars of the Javan rhinoceros, and may accordingly be taken as indicative of the leaf- and twig-eating propensities of this species.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
its colour, which varies from earthy-brown to almost black, is. likewise different from that of either of the onehorned species.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
As regards the cheek-teeth, those of the upper jaw are practically indistinguishable from the corresponding molars of the Javan rhinoceros, and may accordingly be taken as indicative of the leaf- and twig-eating propensities of this species.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
In habits the Sumatran rhinoceros appears to be very similar to the Javan species; both affecting forested hill-country, which may be at a considerable altitude above the sea.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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The weight has been estimated at a couple of thousand pounds.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
Compared with the typical Sumatran animal (R. sumatrensts typicus), a specimen from Chittagong formerly living in the London Zoological Gardens was distinguishable by its superior dimensions, paler and browner hair, shorter and more fully tufted -tail, and the strongly developed fringe on the mar...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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As though suggestive of a transition towards the smooth-skinned rhinoceroses of Africa, the. folds in the skin of the present species are much less pronounced than in the other Asiatic kinds; and of the three main folds, only one, namely, that situated behind the shoulder, is continued across the...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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As though suggestive of a transition towards the smooth-skinned rhinoceroses of Africa, the. folds in the skin of the present species are much less pronounced than in the other Asiatic kinds; and of the three main folds, only one, namely, that situated behind the shoulder, is continued across the...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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In the first place, this species is the smallest of living rhinoceroses, as it is also the most hairy. Hair grows sparsely all over the head and body, but attains its maximum development on the ears and the tail; its colour varying from brown to black.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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its colour, which varies from earthy-brown to almost black, is. likewise different from that of either of the onehorned species.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
At their bases the two horns are separated from one another by a considerable interval; and although in captive individuals they are generally much worn down, when fully developed they are slender for the greater part of their length, the front one curving backwards in an elegant sweep, and attai...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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In the first place, this species is the smallest of living rhinoceroses, as it is also the most hairy. Hair grows sparsely all over the head and body, but attains its maximum development on the ears and the tail; its colour varying from brown to black.
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Sumatran Rhino
The type specimen of the hairy race of the Sumatran rhinoceros was a female, captured at Chittagong in the year 1868. When discovered by native hunters she was embedded in a quicksand, and well-nigh exhausted by her struggles to reach terra firma. By attaching ropes to her neck she was safely e...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Although possessed of two horns, the Sumatran rhinoceros resembles its Asiatic brethren in having teeth in the front of the jaw, as well as by its folded skin, and has therefore nothing to do with the African representatives of the family. As compared with the other Asiatic species (exclusive of...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Its usual height at the shoulder not being more than 4 to 4 ? feet, and the length from the tip of the muzzle to the root of the tail only about 8 feet.
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Sumatran Rhino
In the Mergui Archipelago a rhinoceros, which may be this species, is stated to have been seen swimming from island to island.; and it is probable that all the Asiatic representatives of the family will take readily to the water, although in Somaliland the African rhinoceros is found in absolutel...
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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The longest known specimen of the front horn is in the British Museum, and has a length of 32 ? inches, with a basal girth of 17 3/8 inches ; a second specimen in the same collection measuring 27 1/8 inches in length, and 17 7/8 in circumference.
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File AvailableBritish Museum (Natural History) 1907 Guide to the great game animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History)
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Specimens in collection of BMNH London. 1854.12.11.1, length, 32 1/8 inch,81.6 cm Maximum basal circumference, 17 3/8 inch = 44.1 cm
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Sumatran Rhino
In Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula it is replaced by a smaller, blacker, and less hairy form, which if distinct from the typical Sumatran animal (as is probably the case) should be known as R. sumatrensis niger.
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Its usual height at the shoulder not being more than 4 to 4 ? feet, and the length from the tip of the muzzle to the root of the tail only about 8 feet. Some female specimens even fall short of the foregoing dimensions, an old individual from the Malay Peninsula being only 3 feet 8 inches at th...
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File AvailableO'Hara, G.M. 1907 Trapping of rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements. Indian Forester 53: 383-388
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1907 Final natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. 1-225
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File AvailableHubback, T. 1907 Three months in Pahang in search of big game: a reminiscence of Malaya. Singapore, Kelly and Walsh, pp. 1-88
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File AvailableFootman 1907 An unsuccessful rhino hunt in Burma. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 110 (2860), 1907 October 19: 705
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File AvailableO'Hara, G.M. 1907 Trapping of rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements. Amrita Bazar Patrika 1907 October 2: 2
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Sumatran Rhino
Skin, feet. Locality: Tandjung Laut, Sumatra. Collected by: Prof. Moesch, 1889. In coll. . Eidg. Polytechnikum, Zurich, Switzerland.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Sumatran Rhino
Skin, feet. Locality: Tandjung Laut, Sumatra. Collected by: Prof. Moesch, 1889. In coll. . Eidg. Polytechnikum, Zurich, Switzerland.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Cup from horn. Industrielle Gesellschaft, Muelhausen, Germany.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Skin, feet. Locality: Tandjung Laut, Sumatra. Collected by: Prof. Moesch, 1889. In coll. . Eidg. Polytechnikum, Zurich, Switzerland.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Sumatran Rhino
The Sumatran Rhinoceros was encountered by chance in several instances, including the forest near Pohorok.
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File AvailableSchneider, G. 1906 Ergebnisse zoologischer Forschungsreisen in Sumatra, I Saeugetiere (Mammalia). Zoologische Jahrbucher 23: 123-125
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Sumatran Rhino
The Sumatran Rhinoceros was encountered by chance in several instances, including Upper Langkat.
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File AvailableTehupeiory, J.E. 1906 Onder de Dajaks in Centraal Borneo: een reisverhaal. Batavia, G. Kolff and Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-xvi, 1-219
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Sumatran Rhino
The Punans used to trade rhinoceros horns and bezoar stones with the Segai people for rice and salt, but now these two commodities are so rare, that it can take months before you taste rice or salt.
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File AvailableTehupeiory, J.E. 1906 Onder de Dajaks in Centraal Borneo: een reisverhaal. Batavia, G. Kolff and Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-xvi, 1-219
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Sumatran Rhino
At Long Oero, 15 May 1904, they receive gifts including rhino horn. [ca. 114.40 E, 01.50 E].
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