 Reference Base  Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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 | Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 |
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| Malaysia. The tiger, elephant and rhinoceros were not mere brutes to be attacked and destroyed. The immense advantages which their strength and bulk gave them over the feebly-armed savage of the most primitive tribes naturally suggested the possession of supernatural powers; and propitiation, n... |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| Malaysia - no species indicated.
At Alor Star, Kedah, the malays told me no rhinoceros was known in that district, which is mostly flat; they looked on it as an animal only inhabiting the mountains.
In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish... |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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| Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species. |
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| Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 |
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| Malaysia. The rhinoceros horn (called chula) is believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac. |
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| Skeat, W.W. 1900 Malay magic, being an introduction on the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xiv, 1-685 |
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| Fiery rhino, badak api. There is supposed to be a species of 'fiery' rhinoceros (badak api) which is excessively dangerous if attacked. This latter is probably a mere fable. |
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| Ridley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30 |
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| Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. It measured 4 feet 3 inches at shoulder, measured with a standard. |
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| Clifford, H. 1898 Studies in brown humanity, being scrawls and smudges in sepia white, and yellow. London, Grant Richards |
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| Clifford, H. 1897 In court & kampong, being tales and sketches of native life in the Malay Peninsula, 2nd ed. London, Grant Richards, pp. 1-55, 1-255 |
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| Fiery rhinoceros, badak api. Tales about Raja Haji Hamid of Selangor. Men said that henceforth Si-Hamid should be named the Fiery Rhinoceros, Badak Api, and not the Unbound Tiger, as they had hitherto killed him. |
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