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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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In Perak, lower Malay Peninsula, however, two individuals have been killed in the last thirty years, the mounted heads of which are now in the Selangor Museum of the Federated Malay States. The first of these was the locally famous Pinjih rhino, shot in 1899, in the Pinjih valley, Kinta district, by Sir George Maxwell. It was a male, standing 5 feet, 5.5 inches at the shoulder. This animal wase savage, and given to unprovoked attacks. The Pinjih rhino was a well-known individual and had been the terror of the valley long before the British occupation in 1874. It had killed at least three men and only large and well-armed parties went into its area.
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The lesser one-horned rhinoceros
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