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A rhino-hunt in Sumatra |
| Author(s): |
Hazewinkel, J.C. |
| Year published: |
1932 |
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Java Gazette |
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1 (5) Suppl |
| Pages: |
i-viii, figs. 1-10 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Javan Rhino
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| With nerves taut through excitement, we crept on, careful to the utmost, for anything might be happening now. Arriving at a cluster of big trees, we found, that had we but come some minutes earlier, we could have surprised our pachyderm taking its bath in a mudpool.
In these pools, called koeba... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| Sumatra. And what about our friend Rhino ? Well, he went the way of all Rhinos, i.e. to the chemist's of the Celestial Empire, with hide and hair, to give - with more or less results -Youth and Vitality, to old sinners and patriarchs, who still refused to renounce the Pleasures of Life. The Chi... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1932, Sumatra, Horn 4000 guilders |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Morphology - Size
Javan Rhino
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| Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m. The length of the horn, measured along the slightly curved foreside, 37 cm., with an ... |
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A rhino-hunt in Sumatra
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