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Reference Base  Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoen... |
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Among rhino and Javanese wild ox (banteng) in the Oedjoeng Koelon Game Reserve |
| Author(s): |
Hoogerwerf, A. |
| Year published: |
1938 |
| Journal: |
Nature Protection in the Netherlands Indies |
| Volume: |
Dept. of Economic Affairs, Batavia |
| Pages: |
9-14, figs. 1-6 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Towards the end of August of last year I made an official trip of about six weeks' duration through the game reserve of Oedjoeng Koelon, a peninsula in the south-west of Bantam (Java). I was specially interested in exploring the interior, into which, as far as I know, no European had as yet penet... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| As there are no `tegals' or grazing land, in the interior, the big game here (banteng and deer) is very scarce. It was only very occasionally that I came across their spoor. The track of the rhinoceros was not found here as often as might have been expected. The number of old rhino paths near ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| On three occasions I had the good fortune to see a rhinoceros and I shall describe some of these encounters which all of them took place during the last week of my expedition. |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| One of the animals had pushed down a tree of about six inches in diameter, which was now lying with its roots exposed, apparently to reach the foliage and the thin topmost twigs that had been consumed leaves and all. The animal had not eaten much, however, a fact which I noticed later in other i... |
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Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
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| One of the animals had pushed down a tree of about six inches in diameter, which was now lying with its roots exposed, apparently to reach the foliage and the thin topmost twigs that had been consumed leaves and all. The animal had not eaten much, however, a fact which I noticed later in other i... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| The number of old rhino paths near the rivers, however, is quite large. I found these typical gullied paths, leading to the water, along every river I visited. These paths, so deeply worn into the hard river banks, must have been used for many years. They date most probably from a far distant p... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| An encounter with a rhino did take place much later and, as usually happens in such cases, it was quite unexpected. I have just written about 'good fortune' in coming across a rhino, but I can assure the reader that I felt anything but happy when I saw the first rhino approaching. The weather wa... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Ujung Kulon. A rhino appeared at the edge of the pool. It was of medium size: its slightly raised head carried a fine horn which must have made my native companion's mouth water. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| I had scarcely been more than a few days in the game reserve when in the night I was awakened by frightened coolies who told me that a rhino had been heard close by. And the peculiar short call of a rhino was indeed repeated.
The call of the rhino was later also heard several times, twice even ... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
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| Suddenly we stumbled on the bathing place of a rhino. It looked as though the wallow had only been there a few days and had been filled by the recent rains. From the fresh tracks, the still bubbling water, and especially the mud still slowly dropping from the surrounding leaves, it was plain th... |
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