some, but unsure
< 12, after 1974 enquiries in detail
no recent information
a few, accidently protected by communist guerilla
perhaps 30 ?
20 (or 10)
Rhinos have been illegally hunted to death, mostly by far-ranging Iban and Kelabit-Muruts.
I saw one fleetingly in the overland crossing between the Bahau headwaters amd the Apo Kayan, interior Kalimantam, in October 1945.
All recent sightings of spoor only, and all of them in the largely uninhabited Segama-Kinabatangan upriver areas of eastern Sabah.
not more than 20 (perhaps 10) on island: none in Sarawak and Brunei, just possibly 1-2 in Kalimantan, the rest in Sabah -
Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial.
The Borneo form is named by a German zoologist, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni after yours sincerely, like whom it is in imminent danger of becoming extinct in the seventies.
Niah Caves. Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial.
Horn is used as aphrodisiac
