Reference Base Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    Lading, E. 2007 Big mammals of Pulong Tau National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. ITTO Project - Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation: pp. 1-51 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Sedlag, U. 1999 Reise-Eindrucke aus Nordborneo: Zucht des Sumatranashorns Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in der Sepilok Forest Reserve. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 44 (2): 79-82, map 1, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Management - Programs Sumatran Rhino Next to the Orang Utan Centre in the Sepilok Forest Reserve is an enclosure for 3 (or 5?) Sumatran rhinos. The attempt made by several countries in the west to breed with animals originating from Indonesia has failed. Therefore one hopes to breed here, and at the time of my visit one female was...   details Grummt, W. 1998 Begegnungen mit Sumatranashornern, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814). Milu, Berlin 9: 354-362, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Management - Programs Sumatran Rhino Centre is next to Orang Utan rehab centre. In sep 1997 there were 2/2 adult rhinos.   details Malaysian Nature Society 1998 1998 Expedition to the proposed Pulong Tau National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Miri, MNS, pp. 1-50 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Conservation Fossil No details available yet   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Diseases - Reasons of death Sumatran Rhino Sabah - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Male caught in Sabah on 5.5.91 died of tetanus on 8.5.95.   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Diseases - Parasites Sumatran Rhino Sabah. Tabanus sp. Female in captive breeding centre - She was not bothered by the presence of Tabanus flies.   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Sabah, Managed Breeding Centre. The oestrus cycle was estimated to be between 28 to 30 days. During oestrus, the female was restless, with a swollen vulva and soft, clear, stringy mucoid discharge from the vagina. The vulva could remain swollen for five days. The discharge could be seen when ...   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Management - Programs Sumatran Rhino In 1985, the State Government of Sabah's Rhino and Wildlife Conservation Committee (SRWCC) established a local capture and breeding programme. The capture programme was activated in 1987 and began with the capture of rhinos that were exposed to poachers due to the loss of their habitat. The SRW...   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Sabah, Managed Breeding Centre. The female was obviously interested in the male when she was in oestrus. The male would go to the common gate to make lip contact and to lock horns. The female would walk or pace along the wall, followed by the male on the other side. The male was not intereste...   details Bosi, E.J. 1996 Mating Sumatran rhinoceros at Sepilok Rhino Breeding Centre, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Pachyderm 21: 24-27, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Sabah, Managed Breeding Centre. We released her into the breeding enclosure during the morning of 28 October 1995 but there was no mutual interest with Sidom. She spent her time in the mud wallow while Sidom walked about. We put Sidom into the individual pen and returned him at 14.54 hours. T...   details Rabinowitz, A.; Schaller, G.B.; Uga, U. 1995 A survey to assess the status of the Sumatran rhinoceros and other large mammal species in Tamanthi wildlife sanctuary, Myanmar. Oryx 29 (2): 123-128, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 2, cf. Harrisson 1965   details Rabinowitz, A.; Schaller, G.B.; Uga, U. 1995 A survey to assess the status of the Sumatran rhinoceros and other large mammal species in Tamanthi wildlife sanctuary, Myanmar. Oryx 29 (2): 123-128, fig. 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Asian Rhino Species Wildlife Protection Ordinance of 1958 protects rhino.   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Population Sumatran Rhino If rhinos range widely, as is currently believed, it is probably due more to hunting pressures than to ecological needs.   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Census Methods Black Rhino The best way to accurately determine Sumatran rhino densities is extensive patrolling of a single, large study site over a long period of time. Only short time available. Unpredictable weather presented the biggest problem. The ground had to be wet enough so that we could find clear footprints...   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino When rhinos use an area, they create wide and obvious 'highways' along ridges and waterways, often with distinctive scrape marks and dung deposits. They follow these well established paths repeatedly and over long distances. As rhinos travel, they spend time feeding on leaves, stems and twigs, ...   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino A high-pitched squeal put me on guard as the rhino turned his head in my direction. It was a strange, almost childlike sound coming from such a large animal.   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Habitat Sumatran Rhino Rhinos also use salt licks and mineral springs, which are often located close to waterways where the soft ground allows easy identification.   details Rabinowitz, A. 1994 On the horns of a dilemma. Wildlife Conservation 97 (5): 32-39, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino Another distinctive trait is the habit of taking mud baths several times a day. Where they travel regularly, rhinos make wallows, or depressions in the soil, that often take on the shape of the animal. These wallows are filled with a clay 'broth' that covers the rhino's body with a layer of mud...   details Khan, M. 1989 Asian Rhinos: an action plan for their conservation. Gland, IUCN, pp. i-iv, 1-23 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 5-15, area 600 km? , protection proposed.   details Khan, M. 1989 Asian Rhinos: an action plan for their conservation. Gland, IUCN, pp. i-iv, 1-23 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Recently it was discovered that a small group survives in the upper Limbang catchment in Sarawak.   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 2-4   details Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Census Methods Sumatran Rhino The method entails the involvement of as many personnel as possible in the search for footprints of rhinos within a predetermined area and in accordance with a predetermined schedule of routes and times. Personnel enter the survey area in groups of four and work from a series of work camps in su...   details Aken, K.M.; Kavanagh, M. 1982 Species conservation priorities in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia: pp. 17-22, figs. 1-9, tables 1-3 In: Mittermeier, R.A. et al. Species conservation priorities in the tropical forests of South East Asia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the 58th Meeting of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Gland, IUCN (Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, number 1): pp. 1-58 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Conservation Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Records from the Baram District showed that eighty Rhino horns were sold there in six years. I have talked to the Kenyah hunters who shot and sold these trophies : they laughed at the idea of getting such things in Sarawak then, they shot them over the border in Dutch Borneo - where no guns were...   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Two-Horned Sumatran Rhinoceros was formerly found all over Sarawak, there are early records even from the Bau District close to Kuching.   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino 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...   details Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino A similar situation prevailed in the settled parts of western Borneo. Here, during 1845-47 in the Sarawak district (i.e. approximately the present I Division), Low (1848) found no signs, although later in 1865-67 Beccari (1904) `once heard that the carcase of a rhinoceros had been seen in the Sa...   details Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial.   details Chin, L. 1971 Protected animals in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 19 (38/39): 359-361 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Wildlife protection Ordinance, chapter 127, volume V, The Law of Sarawak, 1958 - includes among protected animals, the rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Malay name Badak   details Anderson, J.A.R. 1968 Conservation in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia: pp. 498-502 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino virtually extinct   details Carson, G.L. 1968 Conservation in Sabah, Malaysia: pp. 492-497 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Expert investigation of the status of this species is urgently required.   details Medway, Lord 1966 Animal remains from Lobang Angus, Niah. Sarawak Museum Journal 14: 185-216, pls. 14-19, tables 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Excavation in 1959 of Lobang Angus, a large east-facing mouth of the Great Cave at Niah. Rhinoceros is represented, but scarce.   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Bones, two upper molars. Locality: Sarawak, cave near Ban. Collected by: P.L. Sclater, 1895. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: M1986   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Museums Sumatran Rhino Bones, two upper molars. Locality: Sarawak, cave near Ban. Collected by: P.L. Sclater, 1895. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: M1986   details Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino The second previous collection of rhinoceros remains from Sarawak consists of a series of bones together with two upper molars, recovered from gold workings in an alluvial cave deposit in the upper Sarawak river, presumably at or near Ban. These were presented to the British Museum (Natural Hist...   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino Sarawak, Brunei, unknown number in Rejang basin   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Rhino in Rejang basin (Sarawak and Brunei).   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino In Sarawak, Banks (1931a) found it `hard to give any exact localities but they occur in the mountainous region in the Lawas interior, various places in the far interior of the Baram and Rejang Rivers, occasionally straying as far down as the Ulus [i.e. upper reaches] of Mukah and Oya but is [sic]...   details Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino The presence of rhinoceros among the animal remains from the Sarawak Museum excavation in the West Mouth of Niah cave (see Harrisson. 1964, and also previous issues of the S.M.I. for background information), has already been demonstrated by the identification of fragmentary molar teeth (Medway, 1...   details Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino The second previous collection of rhinoceros remains from Sarawak consists of a series of bones together with two upper molars, recovered from gold workings in an alluvial cave deposit in the upper Sarawak river, presumably at or near Ban. These were presented to the British Museum (Natural Hist...   details Medway, Lord 1965 Niah Cave animal bone, VIII: Rhinoceros in late quaternary Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 12 (25/26): 77-82, pl. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino Borneo, Sarawak - teeth mentioned by Busk In addition to the material from Niah, fossil or subfossil rhinoceros remains have previously been recorded also from south-western Sarawak. The first to come to light were two teeth sent to Sir Charles Lyell by Rajah James Brooke, and discussed by G. B...   details Medway, Lord 1964 Post-pleistocene changes in the mammalian fauna of Borneo: archaeological evidence from the Niah caves. Studies in Speleology 1 (1): 33-37, pl. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino There is no evidence of any rhinoceros other than Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. The larger Rhinoceros sondaicus exists on Java, and also alongside the Sumatran Rhinoceros on continental SE Asia. Its presence in quaternary Borneo has been claimed by earlier authors, but re-examination of the fossils...   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino North Borneo. Camp 3 (8300 ft). It was here that ben Esoli first drew my attention to some tooth-marks on the bark of a tree, which he recognized as those of a rhinoceros, and he pointed out the rotten trunks which they had been eating, as is their wont.   details Harrisson, T. 1961 The threat to rare animals in Borneo. Oryx 6 (2): 126-128 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino Archaeological evidence from the Sarawak Museum excavations in the great Caves of Niah show that the rhinoceros was being hunted as a ritual animal.   details Sarawak Government 1960 Report of the Maias Protection Commission. Kuching, pp. 1-32 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Metapodials. Locality: Niah Cave, Sarawak. In Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Malaysia.   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino I had repeatedly told everyone that under no circumstance were they to kill a rhinoceros, but I hoped we shouldn't meet one, because the delight of the chase and magnificent excitement of so great a kill would certainly have ouweighed any Government prohibition. Madang and Lian asked me what was...   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Niah cave excavations 1954-58. Metapodials of rhinoceros in W/E1, 24-36 inches, and X/W1, 48-60 inches, prove that this animal was eaten at least twice in the cave mouth. The bone pillow of an early burial, figured and discussed by Harrison (1957: 164) has been confirmed as the radius of rhinoc...   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Sumatran Rhino 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 50 cents, but ...   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status 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 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino probably extinct   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino 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 hunters' trails are still identifiable over a good deal of the interior.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak 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 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino I saw a fresh track on the 5000 feet divide between the Poedjoengan and Kayan Rivers in October 1945.   details Banks, E. 1949 A naturalist in Sarawak. Kuching, Kuching Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Sarawak Government 1946 An ordinance to protect the Borneo Rhinoceros. Sarawak Government Gazette 1946 November 1: 165, 249 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Conservation Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Status Sumatran Rhino Buffalo and rhino very rare and local within the area covered by the Oxford Expedition.   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Oxford Expedition. Used a path which they believed had been used by a Dyak hunter following up a rhinoceros some months before.   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak 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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino After about sx or seven days walk we followed the Lupin River up unto the highlands forming the barrier between Sarawak and British North Borneo. Two days walk brought us out onto a ridge as flat as a board, but narrow and between 3000 and 4000 feet high with some of the thickets jungle and bigg...   details Banks, E. 1937 Rum and rhinos. Sarawak Gazette 1937 August 2: 163-164 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak 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. There are almost none now, and in fact, after a prolonged visit to the U...   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 - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino They have decreased in Mulu as elsewhere. Saw fresh tracks near the summit.   details Mjoeberg, E. 1929 Durch die Insel der Kopfjaeger: Abenteuer im Innern von Borneo. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, pp. 1-332 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino 1922, On Baram River towards Mt. Moeroed, in Kalabiten country, ca. 3.30 N, 115.20 E. The locals rumoured that the rhinoceros occurs here sporadically, but we did not see it.   details Everett, A.H. 1893 A nominal list of the mammals inhabiting the Bornean group of islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893 May 16: 493-496 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Taxonomy - Evolution Javan Rhino the discovery of some subfossil molars in Sarawak, which have been identified as belonging to this species on good authority (Busk 1869) render it probable that Rhinoceros sondaicus may yet be discovered in the comparatively unexplored interior.   details Bartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino The Rhinoceros is becoming extremely rare in the Province of Sarawak on account of the value set upon the horns, but in Central and North Borneo in the very old jungle it is more plentiful. I have heard that two species exist; but this, I think, is doubtful.   details Flower, W.H.; Garson, J.G. 1884 Catalogue of specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, Royal College of Surgeons, vol. 2, pp. i-xliii, 1-779 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Javan Rhino Pair of molars. Locality: Borneo, Sarawak. Collected by: Rajah Brooke, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2140   details Flower, W.H.; Garson, J.G. 1884 Catalogue of specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, Royal College of Surgeons, vol. 2, pp. i-xliii, 1-779 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Museums Javan Rhino Pair of molars. Locality: Borneo, Sarawak. Collected by: Rajah Brooke, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2140   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino and the country at the head of the Rejang, i.e. for the last five days of its course, would seem to be well suited to be the habitat of this bulky herbivore, being described as destitute of any settled human population, and as affording stretches of tolerably level and grassy country which afford...   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal