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File AvailableMeyer, J.J. 1891 Tjarita Ki-Asdoera: het verhaal van Ki-Asdoera: tekst, vertaling en aanteekeningen, met eene inleiding en opmerking over de spreektaal in Zuid-Banten. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (5) 6: 347-384
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
The horn (tjoela) of the rhinoceros has a high value. It may be assumed to be known that it takes an important place in the local and Chinese medicine. It cures ailments of the chest, snake bites, internal and external wounds, and poisoning.
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak krbo
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak tingiling
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
The rhinoceros roams through the forests and jungles on the highest mountains, often descending to the salt swamps and flats skirting the sea for salt water.
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
The rhinoceros is fierce, but flies from man. When wounded or a female with calf, the rhino is dangerous and hard to kill.
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1890, Java, One horn sells for 40 to 150 florins
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1890 Die Pflanzen- und Thierwelt von Deli auf der Ostkuste Sumatras - Naturwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitraege. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 7: 1-240, pl. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
The Malay on Sumatra differentiate two species, one the Badak krbo is larger and rather quiet and inoffensive, and the smaller Badak tenggiling, which is quite aggressive and always attacks men.
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
He is generally unaccompanied, is unsocial and fierce. Sometimes 7 or 8 assemble and visit a coffee or cinchona plantation where they commit serious depredations by eating the tender shoots and uprooting the younger trees.
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File AvailableHigginson, S.J. 1890 Java, the pearl of the East. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, pp. i-viii, 9-204
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
The carcass of a rhino is prized by the natives, especially by the Java Chinese, who even use the skin in preparations of food. The hide resembles that of a hippopotamus. The horn is highly valued by natives, who belive it will extract the poison of applied to the bite of a serpent or scorpion....
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