Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1739. Rhinoceros sent from Batavia to the King of Kandy, 1739. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2422.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1739. Rhinoceros sent to King of Kandy in 1739. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2472.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1740. Ships leaving Batavia in July 1740, including Loverendaal and Knappenhof. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2482.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1741. Deaths of the two rhinoceroses aboard the Loverendaal 1741. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2540.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1740. Instructions to the envoys at Kandy, 16 September 1740. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2492.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1743. Report of the envoys to the court of Ramnad, 1743. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2599.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1772. Rhinoceros paths in Bantam highlands, 1772. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 3363.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1749. Places of rest and pleasure for people: Jakarta hills, 1749. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 2729.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1740. Departure of English ship crrying a rhinoceros in July 1740 from Coromandel. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 8878.
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Dutch East India Co. (VOC) 1740. Appointment of Douwe Jansz. Mout as Schipper of Knappenhof. National Archives, 1.04.02, inv. 8879.
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International Rhino Foundation (IRF) 2026. The International Rhino Foundation joins the Government of Indonesia in celebrating the pregnancies of two endangered Sumatran rhinos. Internet blog 3 october 2026: 1-3.
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Gokkon, B. 2026. Two rare pregnancies spark hope for Sumatran rhinos — but also concerns about inbreeding. www.mongabay.com 14 October 2026: 1-5. doi.org/10.66709/news-332545
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Waites, Jesse 2026. I pointed AI at 400 years of historical archives. It found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcanic eruptions. Internet blog. pp. 1-18.
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Guérin, C. 1972. Une nouvelle espèce de rhinocéros (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) à Vialette (Haute-Loire, France) et dans d’autres gisements du Villafranchien inférieur européen : Dicerorhinus jeanvireti n. sp. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 49: 53-150.
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Elasmotherium sibiricum, the so-called Siberian unicorn, weighed up to 3.5 tonnes and carried a single enormous horn. It was long thought to have died out 200,000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating now shows it survived until at least 39,000 years ago.
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