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Reference Base  Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sar... |
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Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak |
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Harrisson, T. |
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1938 |
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London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd. |
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pp. i-x, 1-254 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| Buffalo and rhino very rare and local within the area covered by the Oxford Expedition. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Oxford Expedition. Used a path which they believed had been used by a Dyak hunter following up a rhinoceros some months before. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| Chinese in Borneo. The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks, for the horn is of great value to the Chinese, who use it as an aphrodisiac. |
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