 | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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| I saw one fleetingly in the overland crossing between the Bahau headwaters amd the Apo Kayan, interior Kalimantam, in October 1945. |
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| Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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| All recent sightings of spoor only, and all of them in the largely uninhabited Segama-Kinabatangan upriver areas of eastern Sabah. |
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| Borner, M. 1975 Project 884: Sumatran rhinoceros - international conservation programme. WWF Yearbook 1974-1975: 170-171 |
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| rhino sighting. So I had to study all kinds of tracks and signs to learn something about the way of life of the Sumatran rhino. I did, of course, try very hard to get at least a glimpse of one. Once I sat on a small platform up a tree for more, than three weeks, eating only cold rice and dried... |
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| Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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| not more than 20 (perhaps 10) on island: none in Sarawak and Brunei, just possibly 1-2 in Kalimantan, the rest in Sabah - |
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| Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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| Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial. |
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| Borner, M. 1975 Project 884: Sumatran rhinoceros - international conservation programme. WWF Yearbook 1974-1975: 170-171 |
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| The terrain in the central parts of the reserve is steep and high and covered with sub-montane and damp moss forest. The trees are smaller, with beards of lichen on their branches, and the ground is covered with moss. It is here that the Sumatran rhinoceros is found, in what is possibly its las... |
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| Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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| The Borneo form is named by a German zoologist, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni after yours sincerely, like whom it is in imminent danger of becoming extinct in the seventies. |
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| Borner, M. 1975 Into the unknown. Wildlife 17 (4): 157-165, figs. 1-18, map 1 |
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| Borner, M. 1975 Shrinking rhino habitat in Sumatra. Oryx 13 (2): 121 |
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| Duplaix-Hall, N. 1975 Census of rare animals in captivity in 1974. International Zoo Yearbook 15: 422-423 |
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