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Title: |
On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula |
Author(s): |
Flower, S.S. |
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1900 |
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |
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1900 April 3 |
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306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Names in vernacular
Asian Rhino Species
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Rat |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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Mr Ridley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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Sclater (1875) mentions a rhinoceros of this species ?captured in the Sunghi-njong (probably Sungei-Ujong) district of Malacca' and says other specimens ?from the same district or the neighbouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe.' |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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Mr. T.ff.Carlisle, H.B.M. Consular Service, wrote from Baw Yakar, Pailin, Battambong Province, Siam, 4 Feb 1899, that he `met an old Shan hunter here who has shot both the one-horned and the two-horned rhinoceros.' |
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World
Morphology - Horn
Javan Rhino
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Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum There was no horn. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Ecology - Habitat
Asian Rhino Species
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Malaysia - no species indicated.
At Alor Star, Kedah, the malays told me no rhinoceros was known in that district, which is mostly flat; they looked on it as an animal only inhabiting the mountains.
In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species. |
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World
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum. Colour uniform dusky grey. |
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