The rhinoceros does not occur east of G. Slamat, in the middle and east of Java, the real area of the djati forests.
There is a possibility that the rhino would wander eastwards. Junghuhn (Java, III, 706) says that a rhinoceros was shot in the southern part of the residency Kediri.- Kediri, Java, 7.34 S, 111.26 E.
According to tradition, a rhinoceros was seen in the residency of Rembang in olden days. In the western part of the district Ngawen [=Ngawi, 7.25 S, 111.26E], on the border of the residencies Rembang and Semarang, south of the Bandoel in the midst of a Djati-forest, there is a dried-up waterhole, which formerly received water from a spring, where the rhinoceros would have lived. - Rembang, north coast, 6.42 S, 111.21 E
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
