Flower, S.S., 1900. On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Thailand, value of blood
In Feb 1897 Siamese Museum acquired a specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus. I may mention that to skin this animal we had any number of eager volunteers, mostly Siamese women, who in return for the work of removing the skin only wanted to have some of the blood. The rhinoceros was skinned in an old Palace Garden in Bangkok; it was an extraordinary sight as we hurried to get it done before dark - a crowd of women, mostly clad only in a 'panung' (Siamese loin-cloth), smeared with blood from head to foot, working away at the carcass with knoves and fingers, little children collecting the blood in cocoanut shells and running off with it to their homes, and Siamese men hanging round trying to get any of the flesh thet could; it was very difficult to save the skeleton, several of the bones being snatched up and nearly carried off by these loafers.
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On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula
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