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Rhinos in Thailand |
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MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. |
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1972 |
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Oryx |
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11 (6) |
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457-460, fig. 1, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
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Sumatran Rhino
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| The horn is used for everything from painkiller to easing childbirth, but the most popular use is as an aphrodisiac among elderly Chinese men. |
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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| Despite the price (or because it), its sale is widespread; of 25 Chinese medicine shops visited in Bangkok, eight had a complete rhino horn (from which shavings are sold) and several others had fragments. A shop in Nakorn Ratsima, in north-east Thailand, had three complete horns, several fragmen... |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Thailand. The horn is used for everything from painkiller to easing childbirth, but the most popular use is as an aphrodisiac among elderly Chinese men. |
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1972, Thailand, Every part of the rhino has value today: teeth, $25 each; dried blood $75/kg; fresh blood $65/kg; bone $6.50/kg, skin $12.50/kg), but the horn is the most valuable, with the Bangkok price about $60 per ounce. |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Thailand, Chaiyaphum Province. With one guide we walked up river, reasoning that a rhino, to cross the valley, would have to cross the stream, and it was an ideal situation for tracks. We found tracks of rodents, civets, tigers, bears, elephants, otters, deer, and gaur, and eventually came acro... |
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Rhinos in Thailand
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