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Reference Base Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expe... |
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Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias |
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Miller, G.S. Jr. |
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1942 |
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia |
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94 |
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107-165, pls. 3-6 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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North Sumatra - Spear trap. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, suing both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails. We encountered the remains of a deadfall along the trail to Blangbeke. It consisted of a huge log in which, originally, a sharpened bamboo blade was... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
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Badak bersisih |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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A native chieftain told us that the animals once were very numerous on the plateau at Blangbeke. Scattered about the blangs we saw many shallow clay-lined pools in which he said the rhinos used to wallow. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, using both guns and dead-f... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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Horn is used as aphrodisiac |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
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The natives, except when hunting, avoided the rhino-inhabited mountains because truculent bulls often charged unwary travellers. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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Chinese pay fabulous prices for the horns, bones, blood and other portions of the animal. Rhino horn is credited by the Chinese with curing all diseases; but they particularly prescribe it as an aphrodisiac. |
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
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Car Bertold presented to us the skull of an immature two-horned Rhinoceros captured in Atjeh by the natives several years ago. Mr Berthold obtained a permit from Buitenzorg to keep it in captivity, but before he could reach Atjeh the natives killed it and so he preserved only the skull. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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1930, Sumatra, 250 rupees (guilders) for a catty, 1.36 lbs. of powdered horn. |
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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Skull in USNM 20242, immature, m1 and m2 upper in place, m3 below alveoloar margin
Condylobsal length, 482
Zygomatic breadth, 255
Lacrimal breadth, 150
Occipital depth thru condule, 165
Mandible, 397
Mandibular depth thru coronoid process, 78
maxillary toothrow (alveoli), 200
mandibular t... |
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