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Loch, 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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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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Distribution - Records |
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Javan Rhino |
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Rhinoceros sondaicus - I. The Ujong Permatang Rhinoceros. In January 1928, a Police Officer stationed at Kuala Sciangor at the mouth of the Selangor River heard reports of an enormous animal that was destroying the Chinese gardens in the Ujong Permatang district some five miles to the north and on the other side of the river. It was said to have walked right through a Chinese kongsi house and to have caused considerable alarm in the locality. He therefore obtained the permission of the District Officer to shoot it. With an orderly he went out to search for it and on the same morning came across the animal bogged in one of the Government drains. He destroyed it with a shot gun. He took the head as a trophy and it was only later that when seen in a taxidermist's shop in Klang by Mr.P.R. Kemp that it was recognised as sondaicus. When the matter was reported to the Hon. Game Warden, he made, quite rightly, a considerable to-do about it, and the head was confiscated. It can now be seen in the police mess at Kuala Lumpur. It was certainly unfortunate that an animal of such rarity should have in ignorance been destroyed. An amusing feature of the affair was that hundreds of Chinese fell upon the remains and cut it up, collecting the blood and flesh as ?obat' or medicine. During the ensuing week or so, the police officer who shot the beast informed me there were continual rows and several court cases amongst the Chinese bargaining and quarrelling over the remains.
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