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Martens, E. von 1876. Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei. pp. i-xii, 1-412.

Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

The people of Danau Sriang told me that the rhinoceros lives on the mountains, but not near the lakes.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

If the rhinoceros has one or two horns here, the stories are not clear. If there are two horns, it would be like the species of Sumatra, Rh. Sumatranus. Gray believes in a one-horned species in Borneo which he caled Rh. frontalis.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

The rhinoceros lives both on the east and on the west coast.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

On Sumatra lives a double-horned species Rh. Sumatranus, and also, it seems, a single-horned one called Rh. Floweri Gray.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

The Dayaks make a number of tools from the horn like beakers.

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

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