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Martin, E.B., 1996. Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Distribution - Records |
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Indian Rhino |
The main reason for the decline from the 1890s to the 1920s was legal hunting. One man, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, killed more rhinos than anyone else: 207 between 1871 and 1907. After 1932, with the exception of the Maharajah and his family, nobody was allowed to hunt rhinos.
Photo of Palace of Cooch Behar: in the dining room, six rhino heads decorated the walls until the Palace was abandoned by the family in the early 1970s.
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