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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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D. Batu Gajah Rhinos. Mr. B. H. F. Barnard, for many years a Forest Officer in Malaya, writing in the ?Malayan Forester' for July 1932 instances the shooting of two rhinos in 1897 by Mr. F. J. Weld formerly of the Malay Civil Service. This was at a spot about three miles from Batu Gajah on the road to Gopeng, in Kinta. He got them both in a morning. He had a shot at a rhino, it made off and he followed it. Soon after he came upon a rhino and killed it with another shot. Not finding any mark of his previous bullet he concluded that he must have encountered two animals and this proved to be correct as following up the tracks of the first he found the dead body soon afterwards. These are believed by Mr. Barnard to have been the Javan rhinoceros. From the locality it is more than likely that they were. What happened to the trophies is not known.
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