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File AvailableMacNeely, J.A.; Laurie, W.A. 1977 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 13 (5): 486-489, map 1
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus has been reported from all the lndochinese countries, and it is possible that small populations still exist. The most likely areas are the Mountains in Cambodia, NW Laos, the Bolovens Plateau region in southern Laos, and parts of S Vietnam near Da Lat. Neese (1975) found ev...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Morphology
Javan Rhino
Laos. Rhinos and elephants live in the same kind of habitat, which might explain why more rhino tracks are not identified as such. According to villagers, the tracks of both animals look very similar. Since there are more elephants than rhinos, it is likely that when tracks are seen the villager...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Javan rhinos in Laos?. Oryx 13 (4): 371
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Javan Rhino
Evidence suggesting that Rhinoceros sondaicus may survive in southern Laos was discovered by Harvey Neese in the course ofa five-month visit to Cambodia and Laos in 1975 on behalf of the New York Zoological Society. He was able to report three incidents believed to have involved rhinoceros, and ...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Asian Rhino Species
The most important events of our rhino search were two incidents involving separate hunting parties of twenty-six and nine Laos; both groups reported to Suwan that they had seen rhinos. The twenty-six villagers from Ban Kala in Sedone Province were rounding-up wild elephants quite near their vil...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The most important events of our rhino search were two incidents involving separate hunting parties of twenty-six and nine Laos; both groups reported to Suwan that they had seen rhinos. The second incident involved nine hunters from Boun Tai in Sithandone Province, and also took place in 1974. T...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Morphology
Javan Rhino
Laos. Rhinos and elephants live in the same kind of habitat, which might explain why more rhino tracks are not identified as such. According to villagers, the tracks of both animals look very similar. Since there are more elephants than rhinos, it is likely that when tracks are seen the villager...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
Rhinos are apparently seen only at the end of the dry season (April and May) and at the beginning of the rainy season (May and June). In this period they seem to spend their time in or near ponds, creeks, or rivers. Rhinos and elephants live in the same kind of habitat, which might explain why m...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1976 Kouprey clues & rhino news. Wildlife 1976: 410-411, figs. 1-3
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Culture
Asian Rhino Species
Many tribal groups in Laos consider rhino hunting to be taboo. They believe that rhinos have powerful phi or evil spirits, which, if they are interfered with, can wreak terrible vengeance on a hunter or his family. For this reason it was hard to obtain detailed information about rhinos from these...
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File AvailableNeese, H.C. 1975 Survival of the Javan rhinoceros in Laos. Report, pp. 1-27
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableDelacour, J. 1966 The living air: memoirs of an ornithologist. London, Country Life, pp. 1-173
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
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Asian Rhino Species
On the way to Xieng-Khouang in 1920's. We heard that an important old lady, the widow of the late chief, had the head of a rare two-horned rhino, taken in the neighbourhood 15 or 20 years earlier. The last of a species formerly common in the area. Specimen was examined. It was a fine skull wi...
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