Peacock, E.H., 1933. A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Distribution - Records |
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Javan Rhino |
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Rhinoceros sondaicus. The best-known grounds used to be the forests of the Victoria Point Subdivision in the Mergui District. Although, as Divisional Officer in charge of the Mergui Forest Division, I spent four months in touring through that Division, I could find no evidence of its existence outside of the Victoria Point Subdivision. In this Subdivision the javan rhinoceros was reported by all local hunters and guides to frequent heavy evergreen forests on flat or comparatively flat ground. It was supposed never to ascend high into the hills ie. into the typical habitat of the Sumatran rhinoceros. The forests of the Victoria Point Subdivision undoubtedly held, at one time, a very fair number of javan rhinoceros, but these have long since been poached out of existence for the sake of the valuable horn and blood which realize an even greater price than that of the Sumatran rhinoceros.
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