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Reference Base  De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zo... |
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De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren |
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Balen, J.H. van |
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1914 |
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Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh |
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pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
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| The natives of Sumatra hunt this animal in several ways. East of Padang, at Padang Reste, three individuals were caught in pits by Malays, according to M?ller. To do this, the natives dig pits in the paths of the rhinoceros, which are 6 to 7 feet long and 2 ? to 3 feet wide. The inside of thes... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| The animal also occurs in Borneo and is said to be especially numerous in the mountain range near the sources of the southern tributaries of the Upper Kapoeas and the Melawi Rivers. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| In remote plantations of coffee or other crops it can often do a lot of damage, for which reason there is a premium of 16 guilders for each one that is killed. |
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| The colour is lighter than the Javan and generally brownish grey, but meat coloured around the lips, under the belly and within the folds of the skin. The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Value - Related to Horn
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| 1914, Java, The Chinese and Arabs will pay 10 to 20 guilders for these and for a large horn they will give 50 guilders or more. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
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| In Deli too there is the superstition that poisonous drinks poured into a horn will be discovered by foaming. The horns are therefore very expensive. |
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Javan Rhino
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| The calves are lighter in colour, at birth provided with short wooly but rather coarse yellowish or dirty white hairs on the back, which they loose after a few months. |
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Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| The Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is similar to the animal on the mainland of India. It is distinguished in the following ways: The head is smaller in comparison to the rest of the body, less powerful, lower and less dented on the top. The folds in the neck are more numerous and prono... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Poaching
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| A native hunter told M?ller that he would never touch the rhinoceros in a dense jungle, but that he would try to get them to a forest with large trees or to a valley by yelling at them. There he would shoot them from a tree. He would climb the tree and throw down his shirt, upon which the rhino... |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The Sumatran Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis) is distinguished from the Javan in having two horns, and besides it has a smoother skin, less deep folds which are entirely absent on the hips and neck. |
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