Weatherbe, D'Arcy, 1940. Burma's decreasing wild life. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 42 (1): 150-160, pls. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Distribution - Records |
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Javan Rhino |
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The Chief Conservator writes, `containes a few specimens of rhinoceros which are, according to all available evidence, the Javan Rhinoceros.' It is quite incorrect to say that all available evidence shows these rhinos to be Rhinoceros sondaicus. The writer visited and carefully inspected this Sanctuary in 1938 with the special object to gather evidence as to the identity of rhinos there. A detailed report was submitted to the Forest Department the same year, and the opinion was expressed that the identity of the species was not definitely proved. This opinion took into account all evidence both pro and con which had been gathered up to that date and has been concurred by at least two well-known experts on the subject, one of whom goes so far as to say that he did not think the animals there were of the Javan species and that the photographs of the tracks were almost positively of sumatrensis.
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