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| Title: |
To Malaya for a rhinoceros |
| Author(s): |
Morris, R.C. |
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1936 |
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |
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38 (3) |
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439-446, pls. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Expedition to shoot a Rhinoceros sondaicus for AMNH - unsuccesful, with permission of Perak Government and Mr Theodore Hubback in 1935, unsuccesful but Dicerorhinus sumatrensis tracks were encountered.
On June 13th I left for my advanced camp, having had huts prepared in the forest some 12 miles... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| on his expedition to shoot sondaicus at Erong River, passed Lima Blas. He says, p. 441, he reached Lima Blas estate, a large oil palm concern, French owned. There was a Danish manager, Mr. Iversen, with assistants Mr. Talau and Mr. Hine. It is not far from the Bernam River. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| A further attempt to procure a specimen of a Rhinoceros sondaicus will probably be made in Sumatra where this species still exists. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| Malaysia. A rhino is worth Rs. 1000 or more to the poacher, its chief value is in its horn, but every part of it possesses a definite value, including the blood, as an aphrodisiac. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
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| Searching for sondaicus in Malaysia. On the fourth day while some eight miles north-east of camp, two Sakais caught me up and produced a 8 ? inch stick which was declared to be the measurement of a fresh rhino track that they had found. Although this was a bit small for a sondaicus track, I dec... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
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| We later came on a heap of the rhino's faeces, somewhat similar to horse's droppings. It is well known to a rhino poacher that a rhinoceros is wont to return to the same spot to defecate, a habit it shares with some of the antelopes, and this, as often as not, leads to its destruction, the poac... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1936, Malaya, A rhino is worth Rs. 1000 or more to the poacher, its chief value is in its horn, but every part of it possesses a definite value, including the blood, as an aphrodisiac. |
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To Malaya for a rhinoceros
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