Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Dindings, Malaysia. In coll. Perak Museum, Malaysia
Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Dindings, Malaysia. In coll. Perak Museum, Malaysia
Extracted in Boettger 1905. These notes were made in 1901, when an attempt was made to procure a specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus for the British Museum. It, however, was discovered that this species did not occur near the Dindings. Three animal of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis were caught.
when first taken off, the hide was fully 1 ? inches in thickness, in places.
[Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh. They also took other parts of the body for medicinal purposes.
Malaysia. [Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh, and removed practically the whole of it.
In and near the Dindings, the catching and exporting of rhinoceros has been, in the past, quite a regular trade. It is said by the local Malays that some fifty of these animals have been caught there altogether.
In 1901, three were caught in the Dindings, Malaysia. One was shot and taken to Perak Museum, one died from old wound, and the third was shipped to Singapore.
