 Reference Base  Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra |
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 | Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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| If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood. |
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| Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down. |
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| Hasselt, A.L. van 1881 Ethnographische atlas van Midden-Sumatra, met verklarende tekst. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i, 1-63 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| The plate shows the Pantjaboe Gadjah, a spear that falls down used in the Kota to kill elephant, rhinoceros and other game. Only those laces are suitable for this device where there are two heavy trees at a distance of 1 ? meters at each side of the trail where the animal used to pass. Between ... |
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| Rosenberg, H. von 1878 Der Malayische Archipel: Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt eahrend eines dreissigjaehrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Leipzig, Gustav Weigel, pp. i-iii, i-xvi, 1-615 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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| reasonably numerous, but seldom seen |
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| Rosenberg, H. von 1878 Der Malayische Archipel: Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt eahrend eines dreissigjaehrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Leipzig, Gustav Weigel, pp. i-iii, i-xvi, 1-615 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| It is found even at a height of 6000 feet. |
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| Kruyt, J.A. 1877 Atjeh en de Atjehers: twee jaren blokkade of Sumatra's Noord-Oost kust. Leiden, Gualth. Kolff, pp. i-vii, 1-252, i-iii |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Sungei Raya in Atjeh. We find here elephant, rhinoceros (badda), tiger etc. |
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| Martens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| On Sumatra lives a double-horned species Rh. Sumatranus, and also, it seems, a single-horned one called Rh. Floweri Gray. |
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| Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 |
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| Sumatra - hide. The Chinese also cut the hide of the rhinoceros into strips to make a kind of whip. Some parts are used as medicine. |
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| Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| 1873, Sumatra, horn 10 to 20 guilders or more |
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| Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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| The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it. |
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