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Title: Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo
Author(s): Dollman, J.G.
Year published: 1937
Journal: Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire
Volume: 30
Pages: 67-74
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Javan Rhino
Horn. Collected by: Marius Maxwell. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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World
Museums
Javan Rhino
Horn. Collected by: Marius Maxwell. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Under rigid protection the few that remain in this portion of the continent have survived and multiplied and today are in fair numbers in two reserves in Zululand, and this rhinoceros for the time being may be regarded as in a fairly firm position.
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World
Morphology
Javan Rhino
The skin of the body of this species is thrown into great folds very much as in the Indian animal, and is marked all over with a kind of mosaic-like pattern which distinguishes it at a glance from the hairy or smooth skin of the Sumatran Rhinoceros and from the rivet-like markings on the skin of ...
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Asia
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
In the case of one of these species, that is the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) we have a species so reduced in numbers that in the past few years most of the individual specimens still existing have become well known. It is very difficult to estimate how many of these animals exist to...
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Africa
Distribution - Reasons for decline
White Rhino
The White Rhinoceros of Africa is in rather a different position from the Asiatic species, as it is not only strictly protected by rules and regulations but these are enforced. In the days of the early settlers in South Africa this rhinoceros was so plentiful that it was all in a day's work for ...
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World
Morphology
Javan Rhino
The skin of the body of this species is thrown into great folds very much as in the Indian animal, and is marked all over with a kind of mosaic-like pattern which distinguishes it at a glance from the hairy or smooth skin of the Sumatran Rhinoceros and from the rivet-like markings on the skin of ...
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Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
Specimen in BMNH. A little inferior in size to the Indian species, the Javan Rhinoceros agrees with the latter animal in having only a single horn; this is never of large size, the record horn measuring only 10 3/4 inches in length.
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World
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
The record specimens in the Museum collection, which are two front horns, measure 32 1/8 and 27 1/8 inches respectively.
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Asia
Distribution - Reasons for decline
Javan Rhino
The reason of this great scarcity is not difficult to ascertain. The horns of this and other species of rhinoceros are practically worth their weight in gold to the natives, who poach them, rhinoceros horn being used for medicinal purposes of a quack nature in the Far East. So much so is this t...
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