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Buys, M. 1900. In het hart der Preanger. Leiden, S.C.van Doesburgh. pp. 1-214.

In het hart der Preanger

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Reports about a burial place for animals, but the locals had never heard of a visit of a rhinoceros to this mountain. - [Mentioned by Buijs 1900, a small lake called Telaga Bodas in the crater of Mt. Telaga bodas, situated between the SE and NW hills of the Galoenggoeng, in the Preanger.]

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Location Java Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Legend of animal slaughter place. On Mt. Telaga Bodas, a small crater lake, in Preanger A little further on I found a curiosity: an unforested area some meters in circumference where a number of insects were lying dead. The locals call this place padjagalan (litterally: place of sluaghter). Veth mentioned the assertion that sometimes tiger and rhinoceros bodies are found in such places. However, the locals of this place had never seen a rhinoceros in this area.

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