File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1908 Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore. Singapore, Straits Times Press, pp. i-iii, i-iv, 1-112
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The museum possesses a stuffed specimen from Perak, a female, presented in 1901 by Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria in that time.
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File AvailableDaniel, J.F. 1908 Animal life of Malaysia. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co.: pp. i-xx, 1-220
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File AvailableLydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Badak
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File AvailableO'Hara, G.M. 1907 Trapping of rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements. Indian Forester 53: 383-388
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File AvailableMaxwell, G. 1907 In Malay forests. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons
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File AvailableHubback, T. 1907 Three months in Pahang in search of big game: a reminiscence of Malaya. Singapore, Kelly and Walsh, pp. 1-88
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File AvailableO'Hara, G.M. 1907 Trapping of rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements. Amrita Bazar Patrika 1907 October 2: 2
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File AvailableKloss, C. Boden 1906 A provisional list of the mammals of the peninsular region. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 2 (1): 147-150
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Both Rhinoceros sondaicus and Dicerorhinus sumatrensis throughout the peninsula.
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File AvailableSkeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724
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Hunting by Semang tribe in Malaysia. The rhinoceros is obtained with yet greater ease. This animal is frequently found wallowing in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in the mud and only part of its head visible. The malays call such an animal 'badak tapa', or the 'recluse' rhino. Es...
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File AvailableSkeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724
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Hunting by Sakai tribe, Malaysia. The Sakai use the b'lantek or spring-spear trap for all game, from porcupine to rhinoceros.
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File AvailableSkeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724
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Malaysia, Semang tribe. The horn is supposed to be possessed with medicinal properties, and is highly prized by the Malays, to whom the Semang genrally barter it for tobacco and similar commodities.
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File AvailableMaxwell, W.G. 1906 Mantra Gajah. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 1-53
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Medicine to make an elephant fat (mantra gajah). This is another remedy: we take the skin of a rhinoceros' navel and soak it in water with some Siamese salt and some honey. Then we give the elephant the skin to eat with its food: we pour the liquid over the elephant and give it some to drink. ...
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File AvailableSkeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros is obtained with yet greater ease. This animal is frequently found wallowing in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in the mud and only part of its head visible. The Malays call such an animal 'badak tapa', or the 'recluse' rhino. Especially towards the close of the rain...
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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Skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Dindings, Malaysia. In coll. Perak Museum, Malaysia
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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Extracted in Boettger 1905. These notes were made in 1901, when an attempt was made to procure a specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus for the British Museum. It, however, was discovered that this species did not occur near the Dindings. Three animal of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis were caught.
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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Extracted in Boettger 1905. In and near the Dindings, the catching and exporting of rhinoceros has been, in the past, quite a regular trade. It is said by the local Malays that some fifty of these animals have been caught there altogether; and that formerly they were very plentiful, but now hav...
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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They are caught in pit-falls, made in the jungle tracks which they follow. The pits are rectangular holes 7 hasters long, 3 hasters wide and 5 hasters deep, i.e. 10 ? ft x 4 ? ft x 8 ? ft. These pits are dug out with perpendicular sides, then the sides and ends are lined with stakes of about 4 ...
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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[Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh. They also took other parts of the body for medicinal purposes.
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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Malaysia. [Animal shot and skinned] Some Chinese woodcutters begged for the flesh, and removed practically the whole of it.
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File AvailableWhitney, C. 1905 Jungle trails and jungle people: travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. London, T.Werner Laurie, pp. i-xv, 1-310
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File AvailableAnonymous 1905 Pahang: rhino horn sold by auction. Eastern daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, Singapore 19 September 1905: 3
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File AvailableWhitney, C. 1904 The trotting rhino of Kelantan. Outing, an illustrated monthly magazine of recreation 45 (2): 206-220, figs. 1-10
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File AvailableAnonymous 1904 Rhinoceros shooting. Straits Times, Singapore 20 May 1904: 10
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File AvailableBarnes, W.D. 1903 Notes on a trip to Gunong Benom in Pahang. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39: 1-18
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G. Benom, Malaysia. On almost the highest point was a quantity of rhinoceros' dung.
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File AvailableBarnes, W.D. 1903 Notes on a trip to Gunong Benom in Pahang. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39: 1-18
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Sumatran Rhino
On almost the highest point was a quantity of rhinoceros' dung.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1903 A unique pet (in North Borneo). Rugby Advertiser Tuesday 21 April 1903: 2
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File AvailableMaxwell, G. 1903 The Pinjih rhino. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 174: 258-276
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File AvailableMaxwell, G. 1903 The Pinjih rhino. Living Age 138 (3089) 19 September 1903: 739-754
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File AvailableSkeat, W.W. 1902 The wild tribes of the Malay peninsula. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 32: 124-141
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File AvailableBuckley, C.B. 1902 An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore. Singapore, Fraser & Neave, vol. 1
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File AvailableColeman, F. 1902 The Sultan of Johore: an interview with a royal tiger-hunter. Wide World Magazine 9: 315-321
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File AvailableHaeckel, E. 1901 Aus Insulinde: Malayische Reisebriefe. Bonn, Emil Strausz, pp. i-xi, 1-261
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Rhinos used to be common on the Gedeh and Salat, but they disappeared from here long ago. The mountain pass above Tjiburrum, between Gedeh and Bangerango, is still called ?Kadang Badak', Rhino Camp.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Lately, however, two examples of R. sumatrensis have been on view at the Botanic Gardens and some notes on them may prove of interest. Both were females trapped at S'tiawan in Perak.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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It is well known that two species of Rhinoceros occur in the Malay Peninsula, the Javanese one-horned species, R. javanicus, and the two horned R sumatrensis, but though many of these animals have been recorded as having been trapped or shot in various parts of the Native States, there are no rec...
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Asian Rhino Species
Badak
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Asian Rhino Species
Badak
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File AvailableFlower, 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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A good deal of uncertainty exists as to how many species of Rhinoceros inhabit this region, and which they are, and it is difficult to obtain information; they are poorly represented in the local museums. Cantor records Rhinoceros unicornis and Rhinoceros sondaicus and mentions a two-horned spec...
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
Mr Ridley (JSBRAS, 1894) mentions having seen tracks of some species of rhinoceros in the Tahan River woods, Pahang, where he also heard the animal at night.
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea.
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File AvailableRidley, 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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Sumatran Rhino
The turf was plough up at one of these grassy patches by rhinoceros, but the animals were not seen.
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File AvailableRidley, 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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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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 was about 8 to 9 feet in length (guessed).
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File AvailableFlower, 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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W.L.Sclater (Cat.Mamm.1891) records specimens from Malacca
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File AvailableFlower, 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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In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour.
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
The Bangkok Times for 11 November 1897 mentions a rhino being shot by Mr. C. Ephraums - no species indicated - few details: animal was seen at a sulphur spring within 6 miles of Ipoh, Perak, it was an old male, 6 feet high at the shoulder and about 8 feet in length; his horn measured 13 inches an...
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Asian Rhino Species
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.
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File AvailableRidley, 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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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, ?I went to see a big rhinoceros in apitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily f...
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File AvailableFlower, 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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Mr Ridley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings.
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File AvailableFlower, 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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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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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sclater (1875) mentions a rhinoceros of this species ?captured in the Sunghi-njong (probably Sungei-Ujong) district of Malacca' and says other specimens ?from the same district or the neighbouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe.'
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File AvailableSkeat, 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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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
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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File AvailableFlower, 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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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
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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File AvailableFlower, 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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Sumatran Rhino
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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File AvailableSkeat, 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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File AvailableSkeat, 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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File AvailableRidley, 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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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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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File AvailableSchlegel, G. 1899 Geographical Notes. IX. Dziu hut, Djohor (Johore). T'oung Pao 10 (1): 47-52
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File AvailableWeld, F. 1899 Rhinoceros killed in Kinta District. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 30 January 1899: 2
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File AvailableClifford, H. 1898 Studies in brown humanity, being scrawls and smudges in sepia white, and yellow. London, Grant Richards
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File AvailableClifford, 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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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 A rhinoceros caught. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser 31 May 1897: 2
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It is stated at Penang that a young rhinoceros was captured by some Kedah Malays last Monday, in a dry well, about a mile from Pinang Tunggul station. The tracks of a very large rhinoceros were distinctly seen near the post. The Malays there complain of the destruction of their padi by these anim...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 Rhinoceros caught in Penang. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 1 June 1897: 10
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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 Rhinoceros pair on display in Singapore. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 14 December 1897: 379
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File AvailableScott, C.P.G. 1896 The Malayan words in English. Journal of the American Oriental Society 17: 93-144
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File AvailableTalbot, F.G. 1896 Three months leave in the Malay Peninsula. Rifle Brigade Chronicle 6 (for 1895): 119-130
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File AvailableSwettenham, F. 1895 Malay sketches. London and New York, Macmillan and Co, pp. i-xi, 1-289
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Sumatran Rhino
Mat Aris and others in 1876 began their journey many miles up the Perak River. In the forest, the home of wild beasts and Sakai people, aboriginal tribes almost as shy and untamed as the elephant, the bison and the rhinoceros, with which they share the forests in the interior.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Javan Rhino
It seems usually to move about at night, though one may come upon it by day.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Javan Rhino
It is a quiet, inoffensive beast.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Javan Rhino
It has a habit of constantly using the same track.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1895 The mammals of the Malayan Peninsula, part 3. Natural Science 6: 161-166
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Javan Rhino
It has a habit of dropping its dung in the same place daily, a habit common to the tapir also.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1894 Account of a trip up the Pahang Tembeling and Tahan rivers and an attempt to reach Gunong Tahan. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 25: 33-60
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Sumatran Rhino
Rhinoceros sp. Tahan river woods. Tracks seen and animal heard at night.
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File AvailableLake, H. 1894 Johore. Geographical Journal, London 3 (4): 281-297
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Sumatran Rhino
In Johore, on reaching the source of the Indau, we found ourselves in the midst of an unknown hill-country, the central elevation of which was Gunong Chabang-tiga. On the lower slopes of Chabang-tiga the tapir and rhinoceros are to be found
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File AvailableLake, H. 1894 Johore. Geographical Journal, London 3 (4): 281-297
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Sumatran Rhino
In Johore. From Keratong we made our way overland through dense bamboo jungle to the Palong river at Jeram Badok (the rhinoceros rapids). [No statement that the animal was seen]
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File AvailableEverett, 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
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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.
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File AvailableGrey, R.C. 1893 Rhinoceros found in Perak. Daily Advertiser (Singapore) 23 January 1893: 3
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1892 Expedition to the Tahan district, Pahang, Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 14 (8): 533-540
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton, imperfect skull. Locality: Malacca. Collected by: Dr. Maingay, 1867. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: f
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton, mounted. Sex: Female. Locality: Malacca. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: b
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Malacca. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: d
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton, imperfect skull. Locality: Malacca. Collected by: Dr. Maingay, 1867. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: f
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File AvailableBartlett, E. 1891 Notes on the Bornean rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 December 1: 654-655, fig. 1
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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.
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File AvailableMynah 1889 Sport in North Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1889 March 30: 430
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMynah 1889 Sport in North Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1889 August 3: 189
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableStraits Times 1886 Rhinoceros killed on Castlewood estate, Johore Bahru, Malaysia. Straits Times, Singapore 19 November 1886: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
On Tuesday morning a rhinoceros was shot on Mr Larken's coffee plantation at Castlewood, near Johore bahru. It was killed at one shot with a bullet from an ordinary 12-bore central fire fowling piece, fired at a distance of about 50 feet. The bullet entered behind the shoulders, pierced the h...
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File AvailableCantor, T. 1886 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and islands: pp. 1-75

In: Rost, R. Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China. London, Trubner and Co: vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-311
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File AvailableMorgan, J. de 1885 Exploration dans la presqu'île malaise. L'Homme (Journal illustré des sciences anthropologiques) 2 (18-21): 545-559, 577-587, 609-623, 641-656, figs. 117-146
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Asian Rhino Species
p.650
The Sakaye only shoot elephant, buffalo and rhinoceros from a very close distance. They always aim at the eyes, and the arrow goes through up to the bones of the skull. Such a wound made with small poisoned arrows is enough to kill the monsters of the forest. If the animal dies, it do...
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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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
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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Sumatran Rhino
Skull. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: W.B. Tegetmeier, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2145
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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Sumatran Rhino
Skull. Locality: North Borneo. Collected by: W.B. Tegetmeier, 1882. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2145
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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Museums
Javan Rhino
Skull bones. Sex: Female. Locality: Malay coast, opposite Penang. Collected by: J.H. Green, 1816. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2136 (O.C. 2974). Presented 1843
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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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
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File AvailableFlower, 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
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Javan Rhino
Skull bones. Sex: Female. Locality: Malay coast, opposite Penang. Collected by: J.H. Green, 1816. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 2136 (O.C. 2974). Presented 1843
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File AvailableTennyson-Wood, J.E. 1884 Rhinoceros caught in a pit at the Dindings River (Malaysia), 3 July 1884. In: Album of drawings of Malaysian views and natural history, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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File AvailableBird, Isabella L. 1883 Sketches in the Malay peninsula. Littell's Living Age 156 (2018): 498-506
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBrau de Saint-Pol Lias, X. 1883 Pérak et les Orangs-Sakèys. Paris, Plon
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Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Kuala Langsa (4,8°N 100,9°E) - 1881 - Présents - Chasse dans les montagnes peuplées de rhinos ( p. 146 ) - (CARINO No. 385 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011)
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File AvailableErrington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341
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Asian Rhino Species
Badak
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File AvailableErrington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341
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Asian Rhino Species
Agabe
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File AvailableErrington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341
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Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
The Sakai tribe in Malaysia hunt animal with poisoned arrows.
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File AvailableErrington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
The Sakai of Malaysia hunt the rhinoceros and exchange the horns for other items for domestic use.
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