Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Sungei Pelawan near Chikus, in Perak. Collected by: H.C. Barnard, 1898. In coll. H.C. Barnard, Taiping, Malaysia.
Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Sungei Pelawan near Chikus, in Perak. Collected by: H.C. Barnard, 1898. In coll. H.C. Barnard, Taiping, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Ujong Permatang, Selangor. In coll. Police Mess, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull, head. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull, head. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Sungei Pelawan near Chikus, in Perak. Collected by: H.C. Barnard, 1898. In coll. H.C. Barnard, Taiping, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Ujong Permatang, Selangor. In coll. Police Mess, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rhinoceros sondaicus. It was at one time fairly common in Java, where, however, it is now represented by a few dozen individulas all strictly protected.
Both Dicerorhinus sumatrensis and Rhinoceros sondaicus
Rhinoceros sondaicus apparently only in small numbers
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis occurs in Sumatra
Only two specimens of Rhinoceros sondaicus known from the Malay Peninsula. The first of these is the (locally) famous ?Pinjih Rhino' which was shot by Mr. (now Sir) George W. Maxwell in the Pinjih Valley of the Kinta District of Perak in 1899. This was a bull, 5 ft 5 + inches high at the shoulder, measured after death. The head was mounted by Rowland ward and is now on deposit in the Selangor Museum. The Pinjih beast had been the terror of its valley long before the British occupation (1874).
This is one of two known examples of Rhinoceros sondaicus in Malaysia. It is a cow that was killed at Kuala serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak on 16 April 1924. As this rhinoceros was shot by a person without a license and no report of the matter was made to the authorities the skull and head-skin were confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Selangor Museum.
Rhinoceros sondaicus only known from two examples, see Pinjih valley and Kuala Serukoi.
Rhinoceros sondaicus was fairly numerous in Tenasserim.
Malaysia. The Pinjih animal ( Rhinoceros sondaicus shot in 1899) was kramat: the Malays credited it with supernatural powers and imagined it to be protected against all danger by a guardian spirit. It often happens that an animal which attaches itself to one locality and establishes a reputation for daring or cunning, and which is fortunate enough to escape a few ill-directed bullets, comes in a few years to be considered kramat, and in many cases imagined to be a reincarnation of a deceased celebrity.
Pinjih Rhinoceros, in Selangor Museum, male, height at the shoulder, measured after death, was 5 ft 5 ? inch.
