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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 - F. The ?Pinji' Rhinoceros. In 1899, the famous ? Pinji ? rhinoceros was shot by Sir George W. Maxwell in the Pinji Valley, not a great distance from the Laliat Railway Station, in Kinta. The classic description of its exploits and the shooting of this animal may be read in Maxwell's, ? In Malay Forests ? a delightful little book published by Blackwood that one is never tired of re-reading. The old rhino had made his abode in the Pinji Valley and had been the terror of the district long before the British occupation of Perak in 1874. It was a ?kramat' animal impossible to kill and had killed at least three men on three separate occasions. All this is related in the story, It seldom left a circumscribed area of some forty square miles, and though many had tried to kill it it appeared to be invulnerable. We hear how a ?pawang' made a feast and invoked the Earth Spirits, asking them to give up the rhinoceros and to accept compensation. Starting from Guiiong Kroli a big limestone hill not many miles south of Ipoli, the animal was followed for two whole days, was shot it more tliziii once, and was finally killed on the third day not far from the Pinji village. The animal measured five feet five and a half inches at the shoulder, but this measurement taken when dead hardly did it justice. The horn was only 7 or 8 inches, a shapeless lump. The head of this famous beast may be seen in the Selangor Museum at Kuala Lumpur.
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