Reference Base Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 5  Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 10 (?5),all in the north centre   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino A little further southwest Abbott, in 1907, noted reports of rhinoceroses from about `Batu Dajeu' (? = Bajeuh), in the upper S. Simpang, from the lowlands about the base of G. Palung (= G. Panti), and the neighbourhood of G. Kedijo.   details Harrisson, T. 1965 Editorial preface. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): ix-xxi Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.   details 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 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino 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.   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Worst of all is D. sumatrensis, for which Borneo was long regarded as a reservoir area. I have been at much pains to seek every level of native and official information from all corners of the island since 1961. My estimate for May 1965 is as follows: Kaliman...   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Chinese in Borneo. As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.   details Groves, C.P. 1965 Description of a new subspecies of rhinoceros, from Borneo, Didermocerus sumatrensis harrissoni. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 13 (3): 128-131 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 20-30 in the North   details Pfeffer, P. 1963 Bivouacs a Borneo. Paris, Flammarion, pp. 1-252 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino Asia/Indonesia/Borneo/Kalimatan Timur - ( 2° N - 116° E ) - 1963 - Rares - Pharmacopée, chasse, commerce des cornes, prix .Le chef Punan avait tué 29 badak dans sa vie. - (CARINO No. 1 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011)   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Borneo. The horns of this animal are greatly prized by the Chinese for medicinal purposes, and the rhino has been greatly persecuted to supply the market with these.   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Height at shoulder about 4 feet, cf. Hose 1893.   details Harrisson, T. 1962 Rhino horn cups. Malayan Nature Journal 16: 73-75, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1961 The threat to rare animals in Borneo. Oryx 6 (2): 126-128 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino Threats to wildlife in Borneo, 1. For food, 2. By land use, 3. Native exploitation: killing of animals for saleable products, 4. Planned external exploitation, 5. Sport   details Harrisson, T. 1961 The threat to rare animals in Borneo. Oryx 6 (2): 126-128 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino At present only the larger mammals are seriously and immediately threatened, notably the orang-utan and the Sumatran Rhinoceros.   details Corner, E.J.H. 1961 Royal Society expedition to North Borneo 1961: Reports. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 175 (1): 9-32, pls. 1-18, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino North Borneo - Mt Kinabalu. Camp 4, ridge at 10,000 ft - Rhinoceros ... frequented the high ridge. There can be no dount that on this 10,000 ft ridge, a few rhinoceros find a mountain refuge which connects with the undisturbed Pinosuk Plateau to the south and the precipitous Nalamud valley to t...   details Burgess, P.F. 1961 Wildlife conservation in North Borneo: pp. 143-151, pls. 27-28 In: Wyatt-Smith, J. et al. Nature conservation in western Malaysia, 1961. Special issue of the Malayan Nature Journal.. Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Nature Society: pp. i-viii, 1-260 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1961 Prehistoric fauna changes and losses in Borneo: pp. 89-92 In: Wyatt-Smith, J. et al. Nature conservation in western Malaysia, 1961. Special issue of the Malayan Nature Journal.. Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Nature Society: pp. i-viii, 1-260 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Medway, Lord 1959 Rhinoceros' and pigs' teeth as Niah charms?. Sarawak Museum Journal 8: 637-638, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1959, Borneo, The 'dragon' teeth identified by Professor von Koenigswald (above) from Chinese pharmacies in Sarawak are quite expensive medicine. In Kuching they are sold by weight at $2.50 a tahil (4s. 4 ? d. an ounce); by comparison dried frogs and centipedes cost 5 cents each, and sea horses ...   details Arnold, G. 1959 Longhouse and jungle: an expedition to Sarawak. London, Chatto and Windus, pp. 1-206 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceros nearing extinction largely owing to the high prices the Chinese will pay, especially for the horn which they use as an aphrodisiac.   details Medway, Lord 1959 Niah animal bone, II (1954-8). Sarawak Museum Journal 9 (13/14): 151-163, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Niah cave excavations 1954-58. Metapodials of rhinoceros in W/E1, 24-36', and X/W1, 48-60', prove that this animal was eaten at least twice in the cave mouth.   details Medway, Lord 1959 Niah animal bone, II (1954-8). Sarawak Museum Journal 9 (13/14): 151-163, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Culture Asian Rhino Species Niah cave excavations 1954-58. Metapodials of rhinoceros in W/E1, 24-36   details Pfeffer, P. 1958 Situation actuelle de quelques animaux menaces d'Indonesie. Terre et la Vie 12 (2): 128-145, pls. 5-7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Stories told him by the hunters of the nomadic tribes in the forests of Borneo which he visited. These hunters are ordered by the village chiefs to kill the rhinos, which they hunt with razor-sharp lances as thick as a man's arm. They get very little reward. The horn is given to the chief in r...   details Pfeffer, P. 1958 Situation actuelle de quelques animaux menaces d'Indonesie. Terre et la Vie 12 (2): 128-145, pls. 5-7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Pfeffer belives that the rhinos have been completely exterminated in the south-east, that is in the Barito valley, the most populous part of the island. There were still a few, June 1957, in the east of Borneo, and he thinks that some probably remain in the western hinterland and south-west of t...   details Harrisson, T. 1958 The large mammals of Borneo. IUCN Bulletin 7 (1/2): 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1957 The great cave of Niah: a preliminary report on Bornean prehistory. Man 57: 161-166, pls. M-P, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino Only about 15 to 25 survive in the whole island. For the most part these are isolated specimens, which rules the possibility of breeding, at any rate in the British area (2 in Sarawak, 5 in North Borneo).   details Harrisson, T. 1956 Rhinoceros in Borneo: and traded to China. Sarawak Museum Journal 7 (8): 263-274, pls. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Far the most serious is the case of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis. It is not even especially reassuring that it occurs elsewhere in Indonesia, since the old Dutch game laws, inadequate as they were, are neither being properly enforced nor replaced in the remoter areas. The...   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino Twenty years ago the rhino was still common over Borneo. Within living memory it came down into village areas and did damage in the ricefields of the Kelabit plateau. Now there are probably not more than two or three in Sarawak ; none in Brunei ; some reported in east of North Borneo ; and a h...   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino One shot since 1945 led to a conviction (Sibu area).   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino One shot since 1945 led to a conviction (Sibu area).   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The difficulty is to enforce any such law in this huge area. Nowhere in Borneo is there a separately organized game service or other effective protection enforcement.   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The rhino has been hunted to near extinction in Borneo mainly for its horn, hooves and other appendages, which are highly valued by the Chinese as alleged aphrodisiacs.   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Punans used to hunt the rhinoceros and trade with the Dajaks and then the Chinese. When the first rifles reached the interior of Borneo, the Dajaks no longer needed the Punans to hunt the rhinoceros: they could shoot them themselves. In a few years, the rhinoceros was exterminated almost co...   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Punans in Borneo. One of the Punans told me that they were unequalled in the hunt of the rhinoceros. When hunting, they were accompanied by a group of dogs. When these had seen a rhinoceros, they would not let go until it was killed. They would follow the animal for months in the forest. The...   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Punans often remember the time when game was more plentiful. They call it `the time of the rhinoceros.' One of them told proudly that he killed 13 of them when he was young.   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Punans in Borneo. One of the Punans told me that they were unequalled in the hunt of the rhinoceros. Not only almost everything of the rhinoceros is eaten, but it is also a valuable article for barter.   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Borneo. The Chinese use the rhinoceros as medicine, including its tail, hoofs, blood, horn and even the dung.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The numbers, never great, were rapidly thinned out once firearms became available inland.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There are still some in Dutch Borneo, and I saw the recent tracks of one near the top of the high pass between the Poedjoengan tributary of the Bahau and Nahkramo on the Batang Kayan in October, 1945.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Since l947 it has been fully protected, but the western side of the island can only hope to recoup its position if the small surviving stocks in North-west British North Borneo and in inner Dutch Borneo multiply or migrate.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Old people in some places say that at one time rhino were so unshy they would come quite close to villages, and in late 1945 one was reported at the edge of a rice-clearing on the Raya River in northern Dutch border (near the North Borneo border).   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Prices rose, and in the 1930's the relics of a rhino were worth a fortune in steel, cloth, and shot to the uplands people. The rhino is easy to track. As it became scarcer and shier, parties followed a track for weeks on end along the ranges.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In 1931 Mr. Banks wrote: `There can at the moment be no fear of Rhinoceros becoming scarce for as many as 36 trophies were brought into Belaga in two years not so long ago, and I have met men who claimed to have shot over 30 in the course of their life time, but it must be evident that such a slo...   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The slaughter of the rhino has been largely the work of the indefatigable Sarawak Ibans (sea dayaks), especially those of the Rejang River, who have hunted far into Dutch territory and in violation of Dutch law.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Once abundant in the Upper Baram and Limbang, noticeably around Mt. Batu Lawi, there are now definitely none in these great areas. In 1934 Banks saw fresh tracks of one at over 6,000 feet on Mulu , but my extensive 1946 search of this area revealed no trace of rhino, though old wallows and hunte...   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Most were shot at close range with muzzle loaders, but there are several good records of Punans blow-piping them, and a man from Belawit in Dutch Borneo speared and killed one many years ago - an act immortalized in a stirring song.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The rhino has a habit of breaking down small trees for the leaves.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. The rhino has a habit of breaking down small trees for the leaves.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is valued by the Chinese for medical and aphrodisiac purposes.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1949, Borneo, carcass value totalled $300 or more   details Banks, E. 1949 Bornean mammals. Kuching, Kuching Press, pp. 1-83 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Outside influences on the culture of the Kelabits of North Central Borneo. Journal of the Polynesian Society 58 (3): 91-111 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino A feature of Kelabit life is the presence both of irrigated wet padi (sawah) cultivation and of the shifting, jungle-clearing (ladang) dry method. None of the surrounding lowland and riverine peoples practises the sawah method, although over their vast area there are many suitable places. On the ...   details Harrisson, T. 1948 The large mammals of Borneo. Sarawak Gazette 1948 December 1: 254, 261 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1946 Pygmy rhinoceros in Borneo. The Times (London) 1946 September 18: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1946 Pygmy rhinoceros in Borneo. The Times (London) 1946 September 18: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Schneeberger, W.F. 1945 The Kerayan-Kelabit highland of Central Northeast Borneo. Geographical Review 35: 544-562, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Kerayan-Kalabit Highland, Although the tribes inhabiting the regiosn are not keen rhino hunters, the animal is frequently hunted by Iban dayaks coming over from Sarawak.   details Schneeberger, W.F. 1945 The Kerayan-Kelabit highland of Central Northeast Borneo. Geographical Review 35: 544-562, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Kerayan-Kalabit Highland, Borneo Horns, hide and intestines find a ready market in Chinese shops, where medicine is made from them, although the animal is officially protected.   details Tate, G.H.H. 1945 A list of the mammals of the Japanese war area, part 4. Borneo and the islands of the China Sea. New York, Norton Punlishing, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Witkamp in 1924 saw few tracks on the upper Atan river, a tributary of the Klindjau.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In the subdivision Apo Kajan, there are still rhinos between Long Heban and Kiham Awon, on the upper course of the Iwan and that of the Maroeng (mountains on the divide with Serawak), and on the lower Kajan Ioet (report of 1930).   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino During the Midden-Oost-Borneo expedition of 1925, footprints, dung and paths of rhino were found in the Kong Kemoel mountains (2000 m high) and in the source areas of the Sungei Telen above Long Petah. According to a report by Siebers, the rhino hunters had then already gone to other places beca...   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Badak   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino It is nowhere common.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The rhino is reported from the hills and mountains of the Tidoengsche Landen (temesoer or temeroeh): the upper Sekatak region, area between the Malinau and Bahau (left tributary of the Kajan in Boelongan), the Krajan district upstream of the Pa Roengan and Kemaloet rivers, Mentarang district on ...   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In the subdivision Beraoe there are still a few rhinos in the Njapa Mountains and the Soearan region, that is relatively close to the coast and the capital Tandjoeng Redeb. In 1930 the animal was called close to extinction. In 1935 another report from the same area called it rare.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino p.345, in South and SE Borneo; p.350, in East Borneo   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The rhinoceros is increasingly confined to the mountains and even there it is not safe as it is hunted for its horns and hoofs. Despite close guarding, the animal iis still illegally hunted by the Dayaks which use a spear, lance and pit.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Asian Rhino Species Since 1931 the rhinoceros is placed on the list of totally protected animals and it cannot be hunted or captured without a special license. Obviously the control on this law is very difficult in the extensive and inaccessible interior forests of Borneo. Export in the usual way of any body parts...   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In South Borneo the rhino is still found in the source area of the Barito, in the Schwaner Mountains (eg. upper Katingan river) and possibly in the Lower Kotawaringin (?), but nowhere common.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In Sangkoelirang the rhino seems to be absent.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Rhinos occur in East Kutai, in the hills between central Koetai and the Makasser Street. Witkamp (1932) concludes that the species probably is just as rare here as in the central mountain range. Recent reports are equally pessimistic. Let us hope that the animal will live in the national park ...   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Badak   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In Boelongan, rhinos occur in the mountains, especially in the Bahau region. In 1930 they were hunted, and probably this continues still.   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mj?berg found fresh rhino tracks in 1925 in the area of the upper Sg. Boh (left tributary of the Upper Mahakam).   details Westerman, J.H. 1939 Natuur in Zuid- en Oost-Borneo: fauna, flora en natuur-bescherming in de zuider- en ooster-afdeeling van Borneo.. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 334-367 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Badak   details Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros.   details Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Moore, A.W. 1938 A tribute, Ev: Kalulong: pp. 229-236 In: Harrisson, T. Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd.: pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1938 Remembered jungle: pp. 3-62 In: Harrisson, T. Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd.: pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Harrisson, T. 1938 Zoology: pp. 245-251 In: Harrisson, T. Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd.: pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Ned Commissie Natuurbescherming 1937 Bemoeiingen der Nederlandsche Commissie voor internationale natuurbescherming. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 11: 11-19 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mr Coomans de Ruiter draws attentions to the area of Gunung Paloneg, which is important to conserve animals of Borneo like the rhinoceros. The chief forest officer De Jong gave a proposal to the government in Buitenzorg in 1926 to make a reserve of this area which is part of the regions Simpang,...   details Anonymous 1937 Wildreservaten ook in Borneo. Indische Gids 59 (1): 273-274 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino It may be mentioned that the area of Boekit Raja, including the mountain of 2300 m height, will probably be established as a reserve. This area is of special importance to the rhinoceros, which still occur in large numbers.   details Ned Commissie Natuurbescherming 1937 Nederlandsch-Indie. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 11: 19-22 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The game reserve East Kutai, the second biggest in Borneo, was established on 10 July 1936 by a decision of the Zelfbestuur. Probably the double-horned rhinoceros occurs here.   details Anonymous 1937 Wildreservaten ook in Borneo. Indische Gids 59 (1): 273-274 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino A new reserve was established by the resident on 10 July 1936 as the East Koetai Reserve. Rhinos probably still occur here.   details Loch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There has always been an element of doubt about the statement that R. sondaicus exists in the island of Borneo. Natives speak of the occurrence of a one-horned rhino as they do also of a Wild dog and Goat. Their rhino may well be a young sumatrensis. Everett, in P.Z.S. 1893 I believe records t...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Now it cannot be denied that the rhino was once numerous in the Ulu Rejang, Ulu Baram and Ulu Trusan; without going into statistics each river even ten years ago was good for them from ten to twenty pairs of horns annually.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1880, Borneo, Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino Borneo. By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefy...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino By all accounts, the rhino was, and still is, a sportsman, and runs for days when he finds a man coming after him, being, however, completely impervious to Government orders, dining well on the local tuba, and proceeding early next morning to the nearest stream for the purpose of stupefying all t...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Fifty years ago anyone, who shot a rhino was rather disappointed: he couldn't eat it all, it was too far to carry home, and the most that could be obtained from it was an occasional sword hilt made from the horn; these can still be obtained at a fabulous price. Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anythi...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1937, Borneo, Nowadays, a rhino may fetch anything up to $300-$400, its horn being the most useful part, but the blood and the flesh also fetch a price, solely on account of the supposed aphrodisiacal properties appreciated by the Chinese.   details Hoogerwerf, A.; Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1936 Berichtgeving omtrent natuur-bescherming in 1935. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 24-104, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino This area which encloses the 2300 m high Boekit Raja may soon become a reserve. This reserve is specially meant for the rhinoceros which is still rather common.   details Endert, F.H.; Dahler, E. 1935 Jaarverslag over 1933. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1933-1934: 7-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino From the Southern and Eastern Division from Borneo it is reported that the new game ordinance is strictly followed. Several offenders have been sentenced.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino The rhino had jumped from one side of the narrow path to the other, leaving no footmarks amongst ours in the middle and tunnelled a passage for itself down the mountain side through the thick moss covered bushes.   details Banks, E. 1935 A collection of montane mammals and birds from Mulu in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 4: 327-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Found fresh tracks on Mt. Mulu between 6-7000 feet at the summit.   details Mjoeberg, E. 1934 Bornéo: L'île des chasseurs de têtes. Paris, Plon Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution Sumatran Rhino Asia/Malaysia/Borneo/Sarawak/Lio Matoh/Haut cours du Baram (fl.) vers le Mont Merud (3°N 115°E) - 1927 - Présents - Rencontres ( p. 156/173 ) - Ethologie - Chasse avec flèches empoisonnées ( p. 246 ) - (CARINO No. 637 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieu...   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 5