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Asia - East Asia - Laos |
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Distribution - Records |
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Javan Rhino |
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Evidence suggesting that Rhinoceros sondaicus may survive in southern Laos was discovered by Harvey Neese in the course ofa five-month visit to Cambodia and Laos in 1975 on behalf of the New York Zoological Society. He was able to report three incidents believed to have involved rhinoceros, and ten instances of `rhino evidence' between 1955 and 1974 - animals seen, tracks seen, or horn produced. The most impressive is the account of an elephant round-up in June 1974. Thirteen trained elephants, each carrying two men, were rounding up a group of five wild elephants when they realized that among the five were two adult rhinos. One man yelled `Het, Het' (rhino) and both rhinos and three of the elephants escaped.
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Javan rhinos in Laos?
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