![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Badak raya |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| In Malaya in the past there have been confirmed records from Province Wellesley, Perak, Pahang and Selangor; the last known specimens were shot at Ujong Permatang, Selangor, in 1928, and Telok Anson, Perak, in 1932 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus . the last known specimens were shot at Ujong Permatang, Selangor, in 1928. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Malaysia. The footprints of mature adults exceed 22 cm in average diameter. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| the last known specimens were shot at Ujong Permatang, Selangor, in 1928, and Telok Anson, Perak, in 1932 . |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The skin bears a mosaic-like pattern of roughened thickenings, and is heavily folded. Distinguished from Sumatran rhinoceros by larger size, the single horn, and by the presence of three continuous folds of skin running over the back, one in front of and one behind the shoulder, and one over the... |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Length of body 2100-4200 mm |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The skin bears a mosaic-like pattern of roughened thickenings, and is heavily folded. Distinguished from Sumatran rhinoceros by larger size, the single horn, and by the presence of three continuous folds of skin running over the back, one in front of and one behind the shoulder, and one over the... |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Horn less than 250 mm, usually present in males only |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Length of tail 600-750 mm |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kourist, W. 1969 Historische Zootier-Fotos. Zoologische Beitraege 15 (2/3): 465-473, figs. 1-9 |
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Javan Rhino
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| Photos by Thomas J. Dixon of Javan rhino in London, animal died in 1885, photos must have been made around 1884. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Javan Rhino
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| One young is born. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| Distinguished from Sumatran rhinoceros by larger size, the single horn, and by the presence of three continuous folds of skin running over the back, one in front of and one behind the shoulder, and one over the rump. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Height at shoulder 1.4 - 1.7 m |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Cleland, J. 1969 Early history 1878-1900: part II. Annual Report, Royal Zoological Society of South Australia 91 (for 1968-1969): 25-28 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The Director, Mr. R.E. Minchin, visited Ceylon, Singapore, Siam and Java on behalf of the Society in 1885-86 and obtained 36 mammals including a rhinoceros, 70 birds and 12 reptiles. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Medway, Lord 1969 The wild mammals of Malaya and offshore islands, including Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xix, 1-127 |
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| Gestation period about 17 months. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Guerin, C.; Mourer, C. 1969 Le Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest du gisement neolithique de Long Spean, province de Battambang, Cambodge. Documents du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de Lyon 31: 39-53, figs. 1-4 |
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Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1969 Nashoerner vom Aussterben bedroht. Umschau 69: 760-763, figs. 1-4 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1969 The Javan rhinoceros (Rh. sondaicus Desm.) in Udjung Kulon Nature Reserve: its ecology and behaviour: Field study 1967 and 1968. Acta Tropica 26 (2): 97-135, figs. 1-9, tables 1-9 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1969 The last remnants of the Javan rhinoceros in Udjung Kulon Nature Reserve, Java. Biological Conservation 2 (1): 68-70, figs. 1-2 |
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1968 Rare rhinos studied. Animals 11 (1): 45 |
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Javan Rhino
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| 21-28, cf. Schenkel. Very low proportion of young animals, no calves < 1 year. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schaurte, W.T. 1968 Threatened species of rhinoceros in tropical S.E. Asia: pp. 284-293
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/add_subref.gif) | In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 |
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| 40 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Somberg, J. 1968 Udjung Kulon, Indonesisch paradijs. Panda Nieuws 4 (9): 2-6, figs. 1-3 |
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Javan Rhino
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| During second world war, the reserve was neglected. At least 15 rhinos were poached. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1968 The first Javan rhino calf. Oryx 9 (6): 397 |
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Javan Rhino
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| The footprints of a calf only 3-5 months old together with those of a one year old rhino were seen this year. This is cheering news, as one of the disturbing facts about this last surviving population is that no calf had been seen for some years. A census showed 20-29 animals. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Schaurte, W.T. 1968 Threatened species of rhinoceros in tropical S.E. Asia: pp. 284-293
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/add_subref.gif) | In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 |
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Javan Rhino
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| 1965, Dr. Lee Talbot (1965), in carrying out a survey of the Udjung Kulon Reserve at the request of the Indonesian Government with particular attention to the Javan Rhino, reported that there were still rhino, probably several dozen though the number might well be less, living in the reserve. At... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1968 Patrouilleboot voor Udjung Kulon. Panda Nieuws 4 (11/12): 8 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1968 Saving the Javan rhino. Oryx 9 (5): 340-341, pls. 3-8 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Byleveld, M.F.I.J. 1968 De activiteiten van WWF in 1966-1967. Panda Nieuws 4 (11/12): 1-6, figs. 1-5 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hooijer, D.A. 1967 Comment on the proposed ruling on the validity of Didermocerus Brookes, 1828. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 24 (4): 202 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Tooth measurements
TABLE 2. Tooth measurements of Rhinoceros sondaicus (in mm)
Gua Cha Individuals Subfossil Pleistocene
A B C D Recent (Sumatra) (Java)
l r l r l... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1967 Actie voor het behoud van de Javaanse neushoorn. Panda Nieuws Blijdorp 15 (2): ii |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Clutton-Brock, J. 1965 Excavations at Langhnaj: 1944-63 Part II: The Fauna. Poona, Deccan College, pp. i-xxiii, 1-44, figs. 1-11 |
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Javan Rhino
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| Scapula. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 723d |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Pfeffer, P.; Sinaga, W. 1965 La reserve de Baluran (Java-est). Science et Nature, par la photographie et par l'image no. 67, Jan-Feb: front cover, 2-10, 16 images |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36 |
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Museums
Javan Rhino
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| Horn stolen from 3 specimens. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36 |
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Javan Rhino
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| 20-25 |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in the plains of Namtha (1961) and Muong Sing (1900-1915). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Observations show that the rhinoceros is often sen at the upper Nam Moane and at the right tributaries of the Nam Cading. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Phouk? (1940, two animals killed) and south of Nonghet (1959). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in the plains of Namtha (1961) and Muong Sing (1900-1915). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Observations show that the rhinoceros is often sen at the upper Nam Moane and at the right tributaries of the Nam Cading. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Phouk? (1940, two animals killed) and south of Nonghet (1959). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Poaching
Javan Rhino
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| I recall that just after the war a notorious Chinese poacher moved in to make his fortune by killing off the rhinos in the reserve, but was, however, killed by a tiger. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in the north of the province (1900-1915). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Phouk? (1940, two animals killed) and south of Nonghet (1959). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in upper Nam Poun (1957). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Tch?pone (1930-1937) and Keng Kabao (1954). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Tch?pone (1930-1937) and Keng Kabao (1954). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Tch?pone (1930-1937) and Keng Kabao (1954). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Numerous rhinoceros before 1930, none seen between 1930 and 1937. |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Not defined localities (1930-37), Muong Soi (1937). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in Phongsaly (1940). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Found in upper Nam Mouane (1945, 1946, 1958), right tributaries of Namcading (1960) and Pakcading (1961). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Found in the plains of Namtha (1961) and Muong Sing (1900-1915). |
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![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/cat_arrow.gif) | Deuve, J.; Deuve, M. 1964 Contribution a la connaissance des mammiferes du Laos (3). Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Laos 10: 25-35 |
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Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
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| Het |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hooijer, D.A. 1964 New records of mammals from the Middle Pleistocene of Sangiran, Central Java. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 40 (10): 73-87, figs. 1-2 |
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Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1963 Les effectifs mondiaux des cinq especes de rhinoceros. Terre et la Vie 17: 102 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| Total minimum 24, maximum 50, all in Ujung Kulon. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| 24-50 |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Anonymous 1963 Les effectifs mondiaux des cinq especes de rhinoceros. Terre et la Vie 17: 102 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| Total minimum 24, maximum 50, all in Ujung Kulon. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| The food of both species is probably very similar, consisting principally of small twigs. These twigs are often obtained by felling small saplings, sometimes by a most peculiar technique of twisting the trunk. The Sumatran rhino is also known to eat fruits and, as it does not digest the seeds, ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Both species of Southeast Asian rhino can probably live in almost any kind of topography. They probably once inhabited much of the swampy lowlands and wet highlands of our area, but have been forced exclusively to the most inaccessible mountain forests by the pressure of human agriculture and hu... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Nguyen van Hiep 1963 A report of rhinos in Vietnam. Conservation News SE Asia 1963 August: 20 |
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Asia - East Asia - Vietnam
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Mr Nguyen van Hiep has received reports that both one- and two-horned rhinos are still found in Vietnam. The Rhinoceros sondaicus still exists in mountainous regions. It prefers densely vegetated hillocks where there are wet valleys in which it can find ideal places to wallow. It is most likel... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Like all rhinos, both the Javan and Sumatran species are principally nocturnal animals. They move about only when it is cool, spending the hot part of the day resting in the shade or in mud wallows. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Behaviour - Fighting
Javan Rhino
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| Neither species seems to use its horns as the principal instrument of defense, relying more on the pointed lower tusks, which are said to be capable of inflicting very severe gashes. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| It is only certain that the javan rhino exists in one small area:the 117 square-mile reserve of Udjung Kulon in Java. It is estimated that 24-50 individuals exist there and, if poaching is prevented, they may be safe. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Javan Rhino
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| Both the Javan one-horned rhino and the Sumatran two-horned rhino are generally forest dwelling animals. The Javan rhino seems rather less adapted to steep terrain and lives mostly in low swampy areas or in more gradually sloped wet mountain forests. It is probable that both species were once c... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| Both species are very timid and solitary creatures, being found together only when mating and in cases of a mother and calf. (A case javan rhinos traveling in a small group has, however, been reported from Vietnam.) |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| In general appearance the Javan rhino has more folded skin than the Sumatran rhino. The Javan rhino is characterized by the folds on the rump and by the saddle-shaped piece of skin covering the back of the neck.
The skin is coarse in both species and is marked by a cracked mosaic pattern in the ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| The food of both species is probably very similar, consisting principally of small twigs. These twigs are often obtained by felling small saplings, sometimes by a most peculiar technique of twisting the trunk. The Sumatran rhino is also known to eat fruits and, as it does not digest the seeds, ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| In general appearance the Javan rhino has more folded skin than the Sumatran rhino. The Javan rhino is characterized by the folds on the rump and by the saddle-shaped piece of skin covering the back of the neck.
The skin is coarse in both species and is marked by a cracked mosaic pattern in the ... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Morphology - Horn
Javan Rhino
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| In the female Javan rhino the single horn is always poorly developed or totally absent. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
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| Both Sumatran and Javan rhinos appear to move over fairly large areas during their daily travels. They move in search of food and between their favorite wallowing places and salt-licks. In some cases these rhinos are known to make rather long seasonal migrations, living in naturally dry areas du... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Height at shoulder 170 cm |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Milton, O. 1962 Rubber, tin - and rhinos. Animal Kingdom 65 (2): 56-59, figs. 1-4 |
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Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| Summarizing the information available, we know that in 1937 a sondaicus was shot in this vicinity, which is a typical habitat, i.e. low swampy ground. The species is also known to travel to higher levels periodically. The sumatrensis is more apt to be found in the hills near the sources of stre... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Milton, O. 1962 Rubber, tin - and rhinos. Animal Kingdom 65 (2): 56-59, figs. 1-4 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| In Malaya the last definite record of sondaicus was in 1937 when a specimen was shot in the Ulu Bernam area, slightly north of the area I now write about. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Hooijer, D.A. 1962 Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest from the Hoabinhian of Gua Cha Rock Shelter, Kelantan. Federation Museums Journal 7: 23-24, tables 1-2 |
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| Gua Cha Rock shelter, Malaysia
A few years age, through the courtesy of Mr. C. A. Gibson-Hill of the then Raffles Museum, Singapore, and of Dr. F. C. Fraser of the British Museum (Natural History), London, I received for study rhinoceros teeth found at Gua Cha rock shelter. Kelantan, Federation... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Koesnadi, P.S.R. 1961 Udjung Kulon nature park, Java: pp. 107-124, pls. 23-24, map 1
![](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/add_subref.gif) | In: Wyatt-Smith, J. et al. Nature conservation in western Malaysia, 1961. Special issue of the Malayan Nature Journal.. Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Nature Society: pp. i-viii, 1-260 |
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kloes, H.G. 1961 Large mammals at W. Berlin Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 2: 45-47, 53-54, pls. 9-10 |
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Captivity
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Reynolds, R.J. 1961 Javan rhino in the Berlin Zoo. International Zoo News 8 (3): 76-77 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Captivity
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Kloes, H.G. 1960 Berlin Zoo's rhinos. International Zoo News 7 (4): 108 |
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Javan Rhino
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| In 1879 the zoo showed 4 species of rhino, Diceros bicornis. Rhinoceros unicornis, Rhinoceros sondaicus and Didermocerus s. sumatrensis |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Bemmel, A.C.V. van 1960 In memoriam H.J.V. Sody (1892-1959). Lutra 2: 1-5 |
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Asia - South East Asia
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Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Lommel, A. 1960 Die Sudsee-Sammlung Lamare Picquot im Staatlichen Museum fur Volkerkunde in Munchen. Ethnologica NF 2: 105-131 |
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Daon, P.M. 1960 La vie malchanceuse d’Auguste Lamare-Picquot. Les Normands de Paris 50 (266): 10-15 |
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Sody, H.J.V. 1959 Das Javanische Nashorn, Rhinoceros sondaicus, historisch und biologisch. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 24 (3/4): 109-240, figs. 1-13 |
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Distribution
Javan Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| in small and diminishing numbers |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| It may be recalled that Mr. R.C. Morris who led an expedition to Malaya on behalf of Mr. A.S. Vernay to procure a specimen for the American Museum of Natural History [New York] in 1935 returned empty-handed without even seeing any footprints except Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, or obtaining any other... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| sondaicus present |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| Forest |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| Skin not tuberculated but with a mosaic-like pattern as on the flanks of a crocodile; throat folds less heavy; shoulder folds joining above the neck to form an anterior saddle-like nape fold. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Rajmahal Hills, Bihar |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Theodore Hubback, during his term as Chief Game Warden, after prolonged search in Malaya found a single living example which he was so convinced was the last of its species (and mateless) that he permitted it to be shot for some American Museum ?in the interest of science.' |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Mr. E.O. Shebbeare who followed Hubback as Game Warden in Malaya for several years before the war did not even see the tracks of this rhinoceros [R. sondaicus]. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| Swampy ground |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| believed to have become extinct |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Birth of a Great Indian rhinoceros in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (1): 157-158, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| commercial poaching |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Appelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Hunting
Javan Rhino
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| As readers may have read in the newspapers, on 31 January [1934} there was killed a good male badak (Rhinoceros sondaicus) on the southern coast of the regency of Tasikmalaja for the Zoological Museum. A few remarks will be beneficial.
In the first place I want to clarify why this animal was ki... |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| It was reported as frequenting swampy ground in the Sunderbans as well as dense hill forest up to altitudes of 4000 ft. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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World
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| Skin not tuberculated but with a mosaic-like pattern as on the flanks of a crocodile; throat folds less heavy; shoulder folds joining above the neck to form an anterior saddle-like nape fold. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Morphology - Horn
Javan Rhino
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| Horn in females small or absent |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Appelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| seen near human habitations |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1958 Re-discovery of the smaller Asiatic onehorned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest) in Malaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 55 (3): 554-555, 1 plate (2 figures) |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Height at shoulder 5 ft. 8 in. |
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![File Available](http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/style_images/1/file_available.gif) | Appelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1 |
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Tracks in the field were 28 x 29 cm. |
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