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Coups de feu dans la jungle: chasses indochinoises |
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Fraisse, J. |
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1955 |
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Paris, La Toison d'Or |
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pp. 1-219 |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| In Upper Laos, the people know two species: the H?t, large like a buffalo, like javanensis; and the Sou, much higher, thicker, like an elephant, and a skin much more folded. That can only be the one-horned rhinoceros of India. |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| In the roof of the communal house of the village Dak Rao, I had noticed a small wooden casque. After several visits to the village, the people at last told me that it contained the skull of a rhinoceros. That was correct. the animal had been killed in 1933 by a villager. Only the skull remain... |
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Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| I believe that it was around 1930 that the small female rhinoceros died in the region of Chup, which was the last rhinoceros killed by a white person in Indochina. |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
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| A generation ago, a professional hunter from Laos went to live south of Mam Ray in Plei Kodil. He shot six rhinoceroses there. |
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
Names in vernacular
Asian Rhino Species
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| Het |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Sou |
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Coups de feu dans la jungle: chasses indochinoises
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