Kloss, C. Boden, 1927. The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5
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Malaysia. The Pinjih animal ( Rhinoceros sondaicus shot in 1899) was kramat: the Malays credited it with supernatural powers and imagined it to be protected against all danger by a guardian spirit. It often happens that an animal which attaches itself to one locality and establishes a reputation for daring or cunning, and which is fortunate enough to escape a few ill-directed bullets, comes in a few years to be considered kramat, and in many cases imagined to be a reincarnation of a deceased celebrity.
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The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula
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