Skull. Locality: French Cochinchina. In Natural History Museum, Lyon, France.
Skull. Locality: French Cochinchina. In Natural History Museum, Lyon, France.
The rhinoceros is not very common.
The rhinoceros in Cochinchina is large and has only one horn, which is not very much developed. This is Rhinoceros sondaicus of which one was collected for Museum Lyons.
Rhinoceros sondaicus in Tay-ninh.
Rhinoceros sondaicus in Ba-riah.
Indochina. When a rhinoceros is killed, the native will carefully collect all the blood up to the last drops.
1875, Indochina, horn 30-40 piastres, ca. 200 francs
Lemeu
Rom'as
Roumeah
Con tay
When a rhinoceros is killed, the horn is taken to a chinese pharmacy who will give him a very high price, like 30-40 piastres (ca. 200 francs).
