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Reference Base  Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhin... |
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Rhinoceros sondaicus: the Javan or lesser one-horned rhinoceros and its geographical distribution |
| Author(s): |
Loch, C.W. |
| Year published: |
1937 |
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Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |
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15 (2) |
| Pages: |
130-149, pls. 3-4, table 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| G. Dindings Rhinos. Writing in the ?Times of Malaya' 9 Aug. 1932, Mr. Granville M. O'Hara states that in 1905, while stationed in the Dindings as a Forest Officer, he had the good fortune to be present at the trapping of a one-horned rhinoceros. He wrote an article ?Trapping of Rhinoceros in th... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
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| In the Tenasserim District the animal was searched for by Vernay and party in 1928, over a period of three months; permission having been given by Sir Harcourt Butler, then Governor of Burma, to shoot two specimens. Tracks of sumatrensis were found, but none of sondaicus, and it was concluded th... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| J. The Sungei Lampan Rhino. The last animal of this species tobe shot in Malaya was obtained in January, 1932, on the Sungai Lampan near Degong and Telok Anson, Perak. Mr. A. S. Vernay of London and New York, whose collections in the Faunthorpe-Vernay Galleries in the New York Museum are well k... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - B. The ? Tahan ? Rhinoceros. The next record, although there is an element of uncertainty about it, is of great interest. The Javan rhinoceros has never been known to occur on the east side of the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Theodore Hubback, the Hon. Game Warden of Pahang, who... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus - C. Temoli Rhinos. In the 1890s, Mr. G. W. F. Curtis, who was a settlement officer in Perak, shot more than one Rhinoceros sondaicus near Temoli. The skulls of these animals are believed to be in the Kuala Lumpur Museum. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| info from Dammerman. whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon, the peninsula at the extreme western part of South Java. This peninsula has been set apart is a special reserve for the Java rhino. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| A few years ago I saw a newspaper reference to a young one-horned rhino having been captured in Patani, but it is more than likely it turned out to be a specimen of sumatrensis. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five ye... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five ye... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Javan Rhino
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| Rhinoceros sondaicus. It is not impossible that there may be one or two lingering along the Arakan Coast or elsewhere. |
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