File AvailableAnonymous 1969 Sumatraanse neushoorn. Panda Nieuws 6 (1): 5
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File AvailableSchenkel, R.; Schenkel, L. 1969 Report on a survey trip to Riau area and the Mt Leuser Reserve to check the situation of the Sumatran rhino and the Orang utan (21 August to 13 Septembr 1969). Report to WWF, pp. 1-7
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File AvailableBasjarudin, H. 1968 Problems of national parks and reserves in Indonesia and emerging countries: pp. 386-393, map 1

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
Sumatran rhino present
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File AvailableBasjarudin, H. 1968 Problems of national parks and reserves in Indonesia and emerging countries: pp. 386-393, map 1

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis present.
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File AvailableBasjarudin, H. 1968 Problems of national parks and reserves in Indonesia and emerging countries: pp. 386-393, map 1

In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Sumatran rhino present
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File AvailableCave, A.J.E. 1966 The preputial glands of Ceratotherium. Mammalia 30 (1): 153-159, figs. 1-3
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
specimen in Copenhagen Zoo. A female of this species, captured in the Little Siak River district, Riau, Sumatra, lived on exhibition in the Copenhagen Zoo from 1959 to 1972 and at death was an estimated 13 years old. Through the courtesy of Professor K. G. Wingstrand, of the Institute of Compar...
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1964 The orang-utan and rhinoceros in North Sumatra. Oryx 7 (4): 177-184, pls. 5-8, map 1
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In May-June 1964, he made another survey in the area where 4 years ago Sumatran rhino were captured by Ryhiner, Skafte and others. He made 2 journeys into the interior, one up the Siak River and the other 100 miles to the south. Although accompanied by guides who had been with Skafte and who to...
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1964 The orang-utan and rhinoceros in Sumatra from two preliminary reports. Malayan Nature Journal 18 (1): 60-62, map 1
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1964 Rhino country. London, Robert Hale, pp. 1-191
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1963 Les effectifs mondiaux des cinq especes de rhinoceros. Terre et la Vie 17: 102
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableBruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
20 in north Sumatra, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
During the summer of 1959, ten Sumatran Rhinos were captured in the Siak river area: nine females and one male which unfortunately escaped. One of the females was sent to Bogor Zoo where it died in 1961, one went to Basle Zoo where it died in the summer of 1961 of incurable anaemia; and a third,...
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Milton, O. 1963 Report on survey of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Mid-Sumatra. Report to WWF, pp. 1-7, map 1
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Survey of Sumatran Rhino in Central Sumatra near Pekanbaru. This is the area where the specimens for Basel and Copenhagen Zoos were captured, I had hoped to obtain some positive information but at the end of the month, I had collected a lot of negative information. I must state that I can make ...
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Skafte, H. 1963 Badak [Swedish translation from the Danish by Hakan Bergstedt]. Stockholm, Alb. Bonniers., pp. 1-202
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1963 Report on survey of the orang-utan and rhinoceros in North Sumatra and Atjeh - January to March 1963 (World Wildlife Fund Project no 35). Report to WWF, pp. 1-14, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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Skafte, H. 1963 Badak [Original Danish]. Kobenhavn, Grafisk Institut, pp. 1-196
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1963 Report on survey of the orang-utan and rhinoceros in North Sumatra and Atjeh - May to June 1963 (World Wildlife Fund Project no 35). Report to WWF, pp. 1-5, map 1
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMilton, O. 1962 Rubber, tin - and rhinos. Animal Kingdom 65 (2): 56-59, figs. 1-4
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In 1953 the Drainage and Irrigation Department (D.I.D) of Selangor State commenced work on the canal to supply water for a coastal agricultural project. During the following years the laborers saw rhinoceroses on numerous occasions. I have spoken with some of these persons and they say that the...
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1962 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 20 (2): 85-94, pls. 1-4, figs. 1-4
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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Taman, I.M. 1961 The protection of the two species of rhinoceros in Indonesia: p. 242

In: Anonymous Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, Abstracts of Symposium Paper. Honolulu: pp. i-iii, 1-480
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Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
50-60
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Taman, I.M. 1961 The protection of the two species of rhinoceros in Indonesia: p. 242

In: Anonymous Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, Abstracts of Symposium Paper. Honolulu: pp. i-iii, 1-480
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In July 1959, an expedition caught in Pakanburu one female (to Basel), in August 1959 another female (to Copenhagen), and in Dec 1959 a third female (to Bogor). A second expedition organized in early 1960 to capture male was unsuccesful.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Expedition in the region of the rivers Siak and Kampar. Also put traps near the little river Tenajan.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
The native poachers used a sling of steelwire which automatically laced the snout of the rhino just above its horns. But the wire cut deeply into the skin, making the animal completely furious. It charged anything within range, until it finally dropped from sheer exhaustion, half-choked and par...
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
They seem to feed and travel allnight and in the very early hours of the morning. We never saw any rhinos during the day. [female caught] To our amazement we discovered that she ate all day and night, merely interrupted by an occasional bath and a little nap.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Translocation - Methods
Asian Rhino Species
To dig pits across all the trails leading to the swamp was another solution, but the difficulty in getting the heavy animal out, made us abandon that plan. We finally decied to build a solid, well camouflaged palisade-fence around the whole bathing place. Where the fence was to cross the trails...
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
In part of us a trail, partly covered by withered leaves, made by rhinos and belonged to a system of similar trails.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
As far as we could ascertain from the network of rhino trails, they are great travellers. At certain times we found plenty of fresh rhino trails in our hunting district, at other times the animals seemed to have vanished completely. The local hunters believed that rhinos move periodically, alth...
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
It is an unsociable animal. Two adults are never seen together except for the rare moments of mating or when a cow is accompanied by a calf. Most of the time it is a lone wanderer.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
We found that several rhino-trails led down to the swamp which evidently was their favourite bathing place. With hot and dry weather, the horse flies also seemed more bothersome to the rhino and the necessity of coming to the wallows to get a protecting cover of mud increased.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Locomotion
Sumatran Rhino
It is quick as lighting. I have seen it move in and out between trees, roots and other obstacles in the tangled undergrowth with surprising grace and agility. And I have seen it stop, turn around in the fraction of a second, and charge ahead with the speed of an express train.
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File AvailableSkafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Sumatra. The Chinese harbour an old superstition that a certain powder, made of the skin and horn of the rhino, has powerful aphrodisiac properties.
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File AvailableLang, E.M. 1959 Ein Sumatra-Nashorn im Basler Zoo. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 7 (4): 177, fig. 1
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Peter Ryhiner on 17 March 1959 near the Siak River in Central Sumatra caught a female Dicerorhinus sumatrensis in a catching boma.
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File AvailableJorgensen, B.; Andersen, S. 1959 The Jubilee of the Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo News 6 (4) Oct-Dec: 125-126
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
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Schilling, T. 1957 Bêtes sauvages et tendres. Paris, Ed. Calmann Lévy
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Selatan/Palembjang ( 3°S 105°E ) - 1950 - Présents dans les jungles marécageuses de haute montagne , dans plusieurs régions, notamment près du fleuve Lalang au Sud-Est - (CARINO No. 93 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil...
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File AvailableHarrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137
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Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Far the most serious is the case of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis. It is not even especially reassuring that it occurs elsewhere in Indonesia, since the old Dutch game laws, inadequate as they were, are neither being properly enforced nor replaced in the remoter areas.
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File AvailableUllrich, W. 1955 Bemerkenswerte Aufnahmen eines jungen Sumatra-Nashorns (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Cuv). Zoologische Garten 22 (1/3): 29-33, figs. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailablePoser, M. 1955 Mit dem Tiger stirbt die Wildnis: 20 Jahre unter der Sonne Sumatras. Leipzig, Neumann Verlag, pp. 1-248
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Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableSchilling, T. 1952 Tijgermensen van Anai: jacht op grof wild. Amsterdam, H. Meulenhoff, pp. 1-216
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
photo of rhino killed in Gajoh country. Caption says Sumatran rhino but animal in picture is clearly Rhinoceros sondaicus
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File AvailableHooijer, D.A. 1948 Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest from kitchen-middens of Bindjai Tamiang, North Sumatra. Geologie en Mijnbouw N.S. 10: 116-117, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableHooijer, D.A. 1945 Over subfossiele neushoorns van Sumatra en Borneo. Verhandelingen van het Geologisch-Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap voor Nederland en Kolonien 14: 249-258, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skull, immature. Locality: Sumatra, Atjeh. Collected by: Carl Berthold, 1936-1939. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA Catalogue number: USNM 20242
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus. A captain of the Dutch regiment stationed at Blangkedjeren said that in his four years in Atjeh he had seen but one rhino. It was near the west coast and was a Rhinoceros sondaicus.
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
Badak tenggiling
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
Sumatra - fires. The pawong said that that the rhino hunters years ago fired the forest to drive the animals down to the valley where they could be slaughtered.
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak Gajah
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Names in vernacular
Sumatran Rhino
Badak Kerbau
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Rhinos are close to extinction in northern Sumatra
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A few are supposed to remain in remote parts of the Wilhemina Range.
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
North Sumatra - Spear trap. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, suing both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails. We encountered the remains of a deadfall along the trail to Blangbeke. It consisted of a huge log in which, originally, a sharpened bamboo blade was...
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
Badak bersisih
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
A native chieftain told us that the animals once were very numerous on the plateau at Blangbeke. Scattered about the blangs we saw many shallow clay-lined pools in which he said the rhinos used to wallow. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, using both guns and dead-f...
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Horn is used as aphrodisiac
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
The natives, except when hunting, avoided the rhino-inhabited mountains because truculent bulls often charged unwary travellers.
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File AvailableMiller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
1930, Sumatra, 250 rupees (guilders) for a catty, 1.36 lbs. of powdered horn.
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File AvailableHoogerwerf, A. 1939 Bergen, bossen en blangs in de Gajo- en Alaslanden: een tocht door de Gajo- en Alaslanden en iets over het Loeserreservaat. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 242-288, figs. 81-94, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableRookmaaker, H.R. 1939 Circulaire inzake olifantenbescherming. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 163-166
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Conservation
Asian Rhino Species
No details available yet
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File AvailableRookmaaker, H.R. 1939 Voorstel betreffende de totstandkoming van het Wai Kambas natuurreservaat. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 11: 131-135
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
No details available yet
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapore, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt.
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The Gunung Losir is quite poor for animals, although there were many old traces of the presence of badak, rhinoceros.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Seloema. A location for rhinos was given as the Boekit Tjampang, which is connected to the Goenoeng Dempo, but no particulars could be obtained. The pasirah of Ngalam said that he went hunting, many years ago, together with a certain Ba...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapre, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapre, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt.
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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The information regarding rhinoceri in Atjeh is indeed scanty and uncertain. It was impossible to get any definite reports about these animals in and around Lokop. ?The Datoek' at Blangrakal reported having observed them in the high mountains west of that locality. Mr. Obergasner had seen and ...
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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Sumatran Rhino
A forest officer in Medan reported that he had seen a rhinoceros which had been trapped in central Atjeh and which had the horns and other preferred parts cut away. The carcass was covered with a crude shelter awaiting the return of the trappers to carry away the remainder. This is an example o...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Lebong. In the area between this resort and the residencies of Palembang and Djambi. These reports were given by a man called Sitar, living in the Doesoen Tapoes, in the vicinity of the pasanggrahan Rimbo Pengadang. All wallows are on ...
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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In summary, it would seem that there are still a number of rhinoceri in various parts of Atjeh and that there are two rather definite regions where the population is centered; namely, in the Leuser Complex and in the section northeast of Lamno.
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801
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Paja Kapi, Laoet Tiga Sagi, Pasir Lebar. The expedition saw a rhino trap with a spear.
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Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764
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Javan Rhino
Rodomala (female)
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Redjang. According to a hunter called Merasoetan or Tjotek, living in the Doesoen Keloebak, there are still rhinos on the slopes of the Boekit Kelam, in the region on the right side, which is east of the road from Tjoeroep to Moeara Aman...
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801
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Still the general public knows little about the ordinances, because the hunter Panglima thought that rhino hunting was illegal in the Lau Alas (part of the Atjeh Game Reserve), but that otherwise the hunt was open.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Although the protective legislation has reduced the constant persecution, maybe this is due to a smaller number and the reduced value of the horn.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros is practically exterminated in large parts of Sumatra, certainly the one-horned species and the few remaining animals have retreated to remote and inhospitable regions. None of our reporters could estimate the number of rhinos, but all agreed that very few were left. It can be ta...
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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Sumatran Rhino
In summary, it would seem that there are still a number of rhinoceri in various parts of Atjeh and that there are two rather definite regions where the population is centered; namely, in the Leuser Complex and in the section northeast of Lamno. A number are reported to be living in the high moun...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The reports about the rhinoceros in the entire western part of Sumnatra are very scarce, which I attribute to the fact that there has been little hunting of these animals in these parts, even before. It is certian that there are now only very few people who have hunted the rhino and that the int...
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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Rhinoceros sondaicus and Rhinoceros sumatrensis.
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801
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After some hours walk, the guide stopped and examined a spear which he had put out to hunt rhinoceros, exactly like the one figured in Sumatra's Westkust in het Verslag der Midden-Sumatra Expeditie, vol. III, I, 2, plate 123 fig. 2. It is a terrible instrument which is placed exactly in those pl...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
I was told that rhinos were seen in the source area of the Way Roe and the Way Baroe (marga Bengkoenat) and that they descended from the mountains to lower areas during diminishing and new moon.
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Sody, H.J.V. 1938 Lijst van zoogdieren van Java. Tectona 31: 741-764
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Javan Rhino
Badak Tjoula
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Kroe. I was told that rhinos were seen in the source area of the Way Roe and the Way Baroe (marga Bengkoenat) and that they descended from the mountains to lower areas during diminishing and new moon. They were also observed in the Boek...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The following rhino wallows were reported. In subdivision Lais. Between the Air Merah and the Air Seblat Djernih (marga oeloe Seblat).
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapore, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
There has been hunting of rhinos in Atjeh, Djambi and Palembang, where the horn could be sold to Singapre, and also in the Lampongs and South Benkoelen, where Chinese from Batavia financed the hunt.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The following rhino wallows were reported. In Sumatra's Westcoast. Between 1927 and 1930, I heard that in a large village situated on the west bank of the Lake Singkarak, near Panindjawan, a rhinoceros passed through the village at night to drink from the lake. When one realises that near this...
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The rhinos have retreated to remote areas like the Boekit Barisan mountains. They were also observed in the Boekit Barisan mountain chain, near Way Pintau (marga Bengkoenat) and the Way Mendati (marga Ngamboer).
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Bulletin van de Maatschappij ter Bevorderingvan het Natuurkundig Onderzoekder Nederlandsche Kolonien No. 97: 728-801, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-32, maps 1-2
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Sumatran Rhino
[Rhinos are caught in traps with spears] After some days the path on which the animal escaped is sometimes found and followed, and often the body is already consumed by tigers, who prey on the dying animal, and parts of the rhino are flown around.
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File AvailableCarpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
A forest officer in Medan reported that he had seen a rhinoceros which had been trapped in central Atjeh and which had the horns and other preferred parts cut away. The carcass was covered with a crude shelter awaiting the return of the trappers to carry away the remainder. This is an example o...
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File AvailableSteenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Bulletin van de Maatschappij ter Bevorderingvan het Natuurkundig Onderzoekder Nederlandsche Kolonien No. 97: 728-801, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-32, maps 1-2
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Sumatra. He should after some weeks, when the trap was set off, look for the dead animal, of which mainly the horn and hoofs are valuable.
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File AvailableGroeneveldt, W. 1938 Een overzicht van de vaste trekwegen van olifanten in Zuid-Sumatra alsmede eenige gegevens over rhinocerossen. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 73-109, pl. 1, map 1
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Sumatran Rhino
The presence of rhinos in a certain area is assessed according the number of used wallows called 'koebangan badak' by the locals. Every wallow is surrounded by a certain area where the rhino roams and which it does not leave. Sometimes one animal, or a pair, uses several 'koebangans', also call...
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File AvailableBrasser, J.G. 1938 Mes chasses dans la jungle de Sumatra. Paris, Payot
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Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Aceh/Geumpang ( 4°N 97°E ) - 1938 - Rhinos rares et difficiles à voir en montagne - Chasse indigène et scientifique . Corne avant 20 cm. Cf. p. 69 à 102 . - (CARINO No. 32 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1938 Over neushoorns. Sumatra Post (Medan) Saturday 8 October 1938 (vol 40 no 229): 3
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No details available yet
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50
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Sumatran Rhino
Mounted head. Locality: Sumatra, Lampongs. In coll. Zoological Museum, Bogor, Indonesia
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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Javan Rhino
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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Javan Rhino
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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Javan Rhino
a few, 6 say
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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Javan Rhino
a few, 6 say
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus. The species still occurs in some localities in South Sumatra in Palembang, but is very rare there.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1937 Wild-reservaat in de Lampongsche districten. Indische Gids 59 (1): 559-561
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Javan Rhino
In the reserve in the Lampongsche Districten, the one horned Rhinoceros sondaicus still occurs.
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File AvailableDammerman, K.W. 1937 Over record-jachttropheeen in het Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 26 (3): 48-50
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in Museum Buitenzorg a mounted head from the Lampongs.
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File AvailableLoch, C.W. 1937 Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2): 130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1
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The occurrence of the Javan rhinoceros in the island of Sumatra, was first noted by Desmarest in 1822. Up till lately it was doubted that the animal was indigenous, a suspicion now proved to be ill-founded. De Beaufort, 1928, gives an account of a complete specimen presented to the Zoological M...
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