Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242
Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242
Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242
Rhinoceros sondaicus. A captain of the Dutch regiment stationed at Blangkedjeren said that in his four years in Atjeh he had seen but one rhino. It was near the west coast and was a Rhinoceros sondaicus.
Badak tenggiling
Sumatra - fires. The pawong said that that the rhino hunters years ago fired the forest to drive the animals down to the valley where they could be slaughtered.
Badak Gajah
Badak Kerbau
Rhinos are close to extinction in northern Sumatra
A few are supposed to remain in remote parts of the Wilhemina Range.
North Sumatra - Spear trap. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, suing both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails. We encountered the remains of a deadfall along the trail to Blangbeke. It consisted of a huge log in which, originally, a sharpened bamboo blade was inserted. This spear was suspended over the trail and the blundering rhino tripped the rattan trigger-cord, releasing the spear. Sometimes natives were killed in these traps. The pawong personally had captured 24 rhinos with these spike traps.
Badak bersisih
A native chieftain told us that the animals once were very numerous on the plateau at Blangbeke. Scattered about the blangs we saw many shallow clay-lined pools in which he said the rhinos used to wallow. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, using both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails.
Horn is used as aphrodisiac
The natives, except when hunting, avoided the rhino-inhabited mountains because truculent bulls often charged unwary travellers.
Car Bertold presented to us the skull of an immature two-horned Rhinoceros captured in Atjeh by the natives several years ago. Mr Berthold obtained a permit from Buitenzorg to keep it in captivity, but before he could reach Atjeh the natives killed it and so he preserved only the skull.
1930, Sumatra, 250 rupees (guilders) for a catty, 1.36 lbs. of powdered horn.
Skull in USNM 20242, immature, m1 and m2 upper in place, m3 below alveoloar margin Condylobsal length, 482 Zygomatic breadth, 255 Lacrimal breadth, 150 Occipital depth thru condule, 165 Mandible, 397 Mandibular depth thru coronoid process, 78 maxillary toothrow (alveoli), 200 mandibular toothrow (alveoli), ca. 205
