Bruton, R., 1963. The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2
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The rhino is an ugly creature; it is completely wild and uncivilized. If man finds this creature unpleasant, howerer, we may be sure that the rhino finds man even more unpleasant. There is no doubt whatever that man has the power to destroy every single rhino. In fact, it seems that he will do so without even the slightest effort.
We speak of man's intelligence and compassion. We say we are civilized. But we might ask if truly civilized cultures would put to death the few survivors of a once great horde of animals, animals representing eons of development and embodying some of the most hidden secrets of the long development of life of which man himself is a most intricate part. We will in effect destroy part of our own history. And it will indeed be destroyed. No skeleton or stuffed bead will tell the story, for the story is carried with the living animal and its relations with its surroundings.
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