 | Payne, J. 1986 Development of conservation areas in Sabah, North Borneo. WWF Yearbook 1985-1986: 482-484, fig. 1 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | Payne, J.; Francis, C.M. 1985 A field guide to the mammals of Borneo. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society with WWF Malaysia, pp. 1-332 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | O'Hanlon 1984 Into the heart of Borneo: an account of a journey made in 1983 to the mountains of Batu Tiban with James Fenton. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, pp. i-ix, 1-192 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Shows picture of Sumatran rhino to local Kenyah people. Everyone heard tell of it, even at Kapit; but no one has ever seen it. |
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 | Sabah Forest Department 1984 Sumatran rhinoceros, Malaysia. WWF Yearbook 1983-1984: 324-325 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | O'Hanlon, R. 1984 Eastward ho!. Sunday Times Magazine 1984 December 9: 28-35, figs. 1-8 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | Anonymous 1983 Extinct rhino spotted again. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 43 |
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| The three-horned rhino [sic] is said to be roaming the jungles of West Kalimantan. The existence of the animal came to light when a villager applied for a license to hunt rhinos, said a local leader, Aschmad Satip. The 50-year old villager, Jubak, said that he had spotted a herd of 20 three-hor... |
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 | Anonymous 1983 Extinct rhino spotted again. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 43 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| The three-horned rhino [sic] is said to be roaming the jungles of West Kalimantan. |
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 | Anonymous 1982 Extinct rhino spotted again [in West Kalimantan]. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 43 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | Davies, G.; Payne, J. 1981 Faunal survey in Sabah. WWF Yearbook 1980-1981: 117-121 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Flynn, R.W. 1981 Operation rhino Sabah, phase I. Report, Final to WWF Malaysia., pp. 1-14, figs. 1-2 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | Strien, N.J. van 1981 Survey of Sumatran rhinos, Banumuda area, East Kalimantan. WWF Yearbook 1980-1981: 459-460 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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 | Strien, N.J. van 1979 Report on a survey of the proposed Banumuda extension of Kutai, East Kalimantan. Report |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Places to wallow in the mud were always necessary. I saw a good one in the Ular Bulu mountains on the water-shed between the Rejang river and the Mukah river. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Badak |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Rear horn may reach 5 inches but is usually just a knob. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Coming back from the top of Mulu, I found a Rhino had crossed our upward track it had made a prodigious leap and disappeared down a very awkward gully. The general opinion was it would not stop running all day. Rhinos may look clumsy and awkward but they are very strong and agile. The steepest... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The sight is said to be poor, the hearing fair. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture - Art
Asian Rhino Species
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| Borneo. You may laugh, but the Kenyah hunters vowed the young ones avoided the falling trees by taking refuge inside the mother's body and riding in safety with the head sticking out behind - and they made me a very nice wooden model too. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| There they travelled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. The two horns seem to be no more than a sort of fork lift used to raise up obstructions in its path. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Male 8-9 feet long, female slightly smaller. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Longest front horn 19 inches, but 10 inch is about average. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
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| Schimaru |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Distribution - Hunting
Sumatran Rhino
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| I once went Rhinoceros hunting. After a day and a half by outboard motor from Trusan town we left the river and marched inland. The first hill was Bukit Tamunan, a monument to liars. In the old days anyone who told a whopper had a pile of stones erected in his 'honour' and passers by added to ... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The Rhino browsed on leaves and I have seen a small tree that had been uprooted by the Rhino walking up the trunk until its weight pushed over the whole thing and the animal could get at the leaves. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The large, odd shaped head is mostly full of nasal bones which give the Rhino a particularly well developed sense of smell. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Senses
Sumatran Rhino
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| The sight is said to be poor, the hearing fair. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| There they traveled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
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| The Rhino when feeding squeals to itself with pleasure and can be heard some way off. When wallowing it snorts and blows and also makes a plaintive sound rather like the swishing noise made by the wings of a Hornbill in flight. When suspicious it gives a loud snort, breathes heavily through the... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Male height 4-5 feet, female slightly smaller |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Places to wallow in the mud were always necessary. I saw a good one in the Ular Bulu mountains on the water-shed between the Rejang river and the Mukah river. Afterwards it had rubbed against a smooth rock, probably used on many previous occasions. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| There seemed to be no feeding and sleeping times, it was on the go all day. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Defecation takes place in water as well as on land, the droppings round like tennis balls but I have never seen or heard of the pyramids of cannon balls piled in one place. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| The male organ points backwards between the hind legs, urine is said to be sprayed along the back track for as much as half an hours walk, sometimes six feet off the ground and twenty feet away. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| Places to wallow in the mud were always necessary. I saw a good one in the Ular Bulu mountains on the water-shed between the Rejang river and the Mukah river. The crest of the ridge went up and down and in one of the downs a Rhino had made a muddy pond about ten feet by five feet and three feet... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| And so I once explained to a party of Big Game Hunters fresh from Africa, when they were visiting the Natural History Museum, that the Bornean Rhino was not at all brave, it ran away if there was the slightest smell of a man about, pushing the horn under the nearest fallen tree, tossing the whole... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| For a long time the animals were of no value at all, Kayans and Kenyahs carved the Rhino horns into knife handles and sword hilts, there are several specimens in the Sarawak Museum. From about 1918 onwards the horns became very profitable in the export trade to China for medicine and this made t... |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| one young born, about 2 feet high. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. One young is born about two feet high and follows the dam very closely, its head between her hind legs and they are said to stay with the mother for as long as seven years. |
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 | Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
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Morphology - Skull
Sumatran Rhino
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| The lower incisor teeth are very sharp and point forward, it bites fiercely with these in defence though I have never heard of anyone getting hurt - even the Punan who crept up to a Rhino, seized its tail with one hand and speared it with the other. |
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 | Zon, A.P.M. van der 1977 Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan (Borneo). Tiger Paper 4 (2): 12, fig. 1 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In 1931, the Sumatran rhino was declared a fully protected animal and until 1935 was reported frequently in the mountains of Kalimantan even though experiencing severe hunting pressure by the Dayak people with their spears and pit traps. From the few reports made since 1935 it seems that trapping... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Ten years later, T. Harrisson (1949) wrote, `There are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah, and in 1945 from S. Raya and from high ground in the upper S. Bahau in Kalimantan. In the Kelabit upl... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Yet in 1836, in the neighbourhood of Banjermasin, M?ller (1839-40) found no traces; his informant described a rhinoceros seen in the upper S. Kahayan, Central Kalimantan. Bock (1882) reported that the rhinoceros was 'very rarely captured' in southeastern Borneo (i.e. the region from Kutai to Ban... |
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 | Zon, A.P.M. van der 1977 Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan (Borneo). Tiger Paper 4 (2): 12, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
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| In 1931, the Sumatran rhino was declared a fully protected animal and until 1935 was reported frequently in the mountains of Kalimantan even though experiencing severe hunting pressure by the Dayak people with their spears and pit traps. From the few reports made since 1935 it seems that trapping... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In West Kalimantan, B?ttikofer found tracks and fresh droppings on the higher slopes of G. Liang Kubung, upper S. Kapuas, although not in the surrounding plains; he also reported that Malay rhino hunters were active, and regretted his own bad luck in not getting a specimen (Jentink, 1897). In 19... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In the first report of rhinoceroses from Borneo in scientific literature, M?ller (1839-40) could offer as authentication only a secondhand description of a one-horned animal, suggesting the occurrence of the Javan Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest. A skull of this species was among a sm... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Harrisson (1961b) later suggested that there were then `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'. J. L. Harrison (pers. comm., 1962) saw tracks on G. Kinabalu, and P. F. Burgess (in litt., 1963) found reliable evidence of animals surviving at S. Bole on the Segama, the Dent Peninsula, ... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| By the early 1930s, rhinoceroses could still be found in most parts of Borneo, but under acute hunting pressure survived only in remote and inaccessible terrain (Banks, 1931a; Zondag, 1931; Keller, 1932; Witkamp, 1932a). Banks (1931a) concluded, rather surprisingly in the light of his own eviden... |
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 | Zon, A.P.M. van der 1977 Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan (Borneo). Tiger Paper 4 (2): 12, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In recent years the rhino has only been reported from Kutai in East Kalimantan and in Kutai Nature Reserve which was specially designated for the survival of this animal; however it is believed that rhinos have been exterminated in the Reserve. In 1976, I made a trip to check on the pre- sence o... |
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 | Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| The original range of this rhinoceros undoubtedly covered all mainland Borneo, but by the time of the first scientific investigations of the mammal fauna, human depredations had already begun to take their toll and the species was rare in settled areas. That its natural habitat was not restricte... |
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 | Rookmaaker, L.C. 1977 The rhinoceros of Borneo: a 19th century puzzle. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 50 (1): 52-62, pls. 1-6 |
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Rookmaaker, L.C. 1977 The distribution and status of the rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, in Borneo - a review. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Amsterdam 47 (2): 197-204, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Rookmaaker, L.C. 1977 Rhinoceros and man in Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 24: 293-298 |
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Sutlive, V.H. 1976 Obituaries for Tom Harrisson. Borneo Research Bulletin 8 (2): 61-83 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
History
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
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| Rhinos have been illegally hunted to death, mostly by far-ranging Iban and Kelabit-Muruts. |
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 | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| I saw one fleetingly in the overland crossing between the Bahau headwaters amd the Apo Kayan, interior Kalimantam, in October 1945. |
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 | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| not more than 20 (perhaps 10) on island: none in Sarawak and Brunei, just possibly 1-2 in Kalimantan, the rest in Sabah - |
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 | Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
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| Niah Caves. Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial. |
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 | MacKinnon, J. 1974 In search of the red ape. New York, Ballantine Books, pp. i-xiv, 1-211 |
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| Only a week before Herman had found trcaks of rhinoceros a little way downstream. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1974 An introduction to the mammals of Singapore and Malaya. Singapore, Malayan Nature Society Singapore Branch, pp. i-xi, 1-340 |
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| No details available yet |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Like all rhinoceroses, with a thick skin, thinly clad with hair, the hair in this species being more abundant than usual. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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| Borneo. The skin thrown into deep folds, the one behind the shoulder being carried across the back. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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| Badak |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. Like all rhinoceroses, with a thick skin, thinly clad with hair, the hair in this species being more abundant than usual. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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| Borneo. hairs brown or black. Skin brown to almost black |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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| Borneo. hairs brown or black. Skin brown to almost black |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. It feeds on the leaves of young trees. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. the nose bears the horns, some distance apart, and not always well developed. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| the species will ascend mountains, moving up slopes which are steep to a man; and I have seen tracks at 10,000 feet. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The feet bear three troes, each ending in a hoof-like nail. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The feet bear three troes, each ending in a hoof-like nail. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. the nose bears the horns, some distance apart, and not always well developed. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| Borneo. The skin thrown into deep folds, the one behind the shoulder being carried across the back. |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Length of tail c 500 mm, Borneo |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Length of Body 2 m, Borneo |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Morphology - Size
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| Weight c 1 ton, Borneo |
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 | Harrison, J. 1973 An introduction to the mammals of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Society, pp. i-viii, 1-244 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Height at shoulder up to 1.2 m, Borneo |
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 | Appell, G.N. 1973 Mammals of Borneo whose survival is threatened. Borneo Research Bulletin 5 (2): 64-66 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Medway, Lord 1972 The Niah excavations and an assessment of the impact of early man on mammals in Borneo. Asian Perspectives 20 (1): 51-69 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
History
Asian Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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 | Domalain J.-Y. 1971 Panjamon, une expérience de la vie sauvage. Paris, Arthaud |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Asia/Indonesia/Borneo/Kalimatan Timur - ( 2°N 116°E ) - 1971 - EN - Rhinos chassés par les Dayack-Iban - (CARINO No. 86 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011) |
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 | Menchinelli, R. 1970 Proboscidati, Perissodattili ed Artiodattili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 78: 189 et seq. |
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Mt Gulang, dt Bantam. Collected by: G.B. Ferrari, 1873. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova, Italy. |
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 | Menchinelli, R. 1970 Proboscidati, Perissodattili ed Artiodattili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 78: 189 et seq. |
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Museums
Javan Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Mt Gulang, dt Bantam. Collected by: G.B. Ferrari, 1873. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova, Italy. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1970 Notes on the mammals of Kinabalu National Park. Kinabalu National Park, Information Leaflet no. 2: 1-10 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Anonymous 1970 A guide to Management Unit no. 19 Sandakan: Deramakot and Segaliud-Lokan Forest Reserve. Sandakan, Malaysian-German Sustainable Forest Management Project, pp. 1-32 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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 | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Borneo. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA. Catalogue number: USNM 49561 |
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 | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Skull in US National Museum, USNM 49561, collected 18/6/1900 in Borneo. |
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 | Van Peenen, F.D.P. 1969 Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, pp. i-vi, 1-310 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Skull from Borneo, greatest length 525,8 mm |
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 | Silva, G.S. de 1968 Wildlife conservation in the state of Sabah: pp. 144-150
 | In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The Sumatran rhino has been ruthlessly hunted for many generations. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Formerly widespread, now very scarce. T. Harrisson (1961b) has stated that there are `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah, and in 1945 from S. Raya and from high ground in the upper S. Bahau in Kalimantan. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sandakan. Collected by: W.B. Pryer, 1886. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
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| Specimen unspecified. Locality: Sandakan. Collected by: W.B. Pryer, 1886. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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 | Medway, Lord 1965 Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| in the southeast `the headman of the Bajaus at Sungei Manungul [i.e. Menunggul], Pamukang Bay, said there used to be some rhinos in that locality, but he had seen no traces for years' (Abbott, quoted in Lyon, 1911b). A little further north in east Kalimantan, at S. Merah, Mahakam, Raven (unpubli... |
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