 | Davies, G.; Payne, J. 1982 A faunal survey of Sabah. Report by World Wildlife Fund Malaysia for Game Branch, Forest Dept. Sabah, pp. 1-294 |
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| Anonymous 1981 Sumatran rhino killed in eastern Sabah. International Zoo News 28 (4): 41-42 |
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| Forest guards stumbled across the carcase of a freshly-killed rhino. Poachers had hacked off the head and removed all the toenails. The decapitated rhino was found on a logging road in the Silabukhan Forest Reserve near Lahad Datu in Sabah. It is believed that the poachers snared the animal wi... |
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| Anonymous 1981 Sumatran rhinos turn up in Sabah. International Zoo News 28 (2): 36 |
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| Wildllife experts have found fresh tracks of Sumatran Rhino, reported in March 1981. There may be as many as 10 rhinos in the lowland forests of Silabukan on the coast of Sabah, Patrick Andau, the assistant game warden said. Intensive logging activities are a real threat to the future survival.... |
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| Payne, J. 1980 Report on rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Silabukan Forest Reserve, Sabah. Sabah Forest Department (unpublished report), pp. 1-10 |
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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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| 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. |
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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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| P. F. Burgess (in litt., 1963) found reliable evidence of animals surviving at S. Bole on the Segama, the Dent Peninsula, upper S. Kalumpang and Ulu Kuamat, Sabah. A less pessimistic estimate of numbers in eastern Sabah was given in 1970 (Anon., 1970), but was not corroborated by detailed eviden... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| In 1976, tracks were found, and a provisional sighting made, in the area of the proposed Danum reserve, S. Segama, Sabah (D. R. Wells, pers. comm.). |
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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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| All recent sightings of spoor only, and all of them in the largely uninhabited Segama-Kinabatangan upriver areas of eastern Sabah. |
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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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| One of the rarest animals of the forest was the two-horned rhino, much prized for its fabled horns which are supposed to have great healing properties and act as a powerful aphrodisiac. At the turn of the century the rhino was not uncommon in the Segama area and they were often hunted by Dusuns w... |
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