Reference Base Notes for: Value back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 ...   Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn Fossil 1990, Yemen, $1360 per kg   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1990, Taipei, $20.000 per kg import price; $45.000 per kg retail   details Cormack, D. 1993 Operation rhino rescue. Wildlife Watch 1 (2): 6-7, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Last year a record price of R2,3 million was paid for five black rhino, sold as a single breeding unit, to Dale Parker for his private reserve, Lapalala Wilderness, in the Waterberg of the north- western Transvaal. In buying the five animals, it was a repeat performance for Mr Parker who, two ye...   details Anonymous 1993 The South African game industry - sustainable utilization in practice. Newsletter Okavango Wildlife Society 1993 (1): 15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Animals sold in Natal auctions in 1992. Black rhino, total 5 sold, average price R 460.000, total R 2.300.000   details Anonymous 1993 The South African game industry - sustainable utilization in practice. Newsletter Okavango Wildlife Society 1993 (1): 15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Animals sold in Natal auctions in 1992. White rhino, total 64 sold, average price R 29.230, total revenue R 1.783.000   details Williams, M. 1993 Hong Kong's horn of plenty. BBC Wildlife 11 (12) December: 65, 1 figure Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Hong Kong Value All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Rhino & Elephant Foundation 1992 Goodbye to the black rhino?. REF News no. 7: 2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1992, Taiwan, R 140.00 per kg horn   details Martin, E.B. 1992 A survey of rhino products for retail sale in Bangkok in early 1992. Pachyderm 15: 53-56, figs. 1-3, tables 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sale of parts in Bankok in 1992 Bangkok has been for many years a major market for rhino products, including the horn, skin, nails and penis. However, in March 1992, fewer pharmacies were selling rhino horn and skin compared with my 1990 survey, and the prices had increased by less than 10% per...   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1991 African and Asian rhino products for sale in Bangkok. Pachyderm 14: 39-41, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value Asian Rhino Species Thailand - penis. Similarly, he had not had a chance to buy recently any new rhino penises, but said he would willingly pay up to US$ 400 for one. If it is fresh, he first dries it out and then sells it by weight. A complete penis weighs about 150 grammes when dry. In the last two years, he h...   details Rhino & Elephant Foundation 1991 History is made [Black rhino moved to Lapalala Wilderness]. REF News no. 5: 2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino For Natal Parks Board (NPB) June 18, 1990 was a historic day. At the Hluhluwe Game Auction a breeding herd of five black rhino was sold to a private reserve - the Lapalala Wilderness (Pty) Ltd. - for a princely sum of R2,2 million. Their success in saving the white rhino from extinction is well...   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1990 Increasing threats to Assam's rhinos. International Zoo News 37 (7): 28-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Hong Kong Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1989, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, $15,000 per kilo wholesale. Middlemen were offering poachers in Assam $6250 a kilo   details Chilvers, B. 1990 Rhino's last stand in Africa. REF Journal 3: 12-19, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The present $3 to $6 million per annum market for rhino horn has its roots in earliest Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek cultures. Rhino horn was worth 63 cents per kilogram in the 1840s, $11 in 1950 and $300 in 1978. In 1988, the best horns, weighing between 1 ? and 3 kg, are worth $1000 per kilo ...   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1990 Poachers kill rhino in India by electrocution. Swara 13 (5): 19, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Singapore Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1989, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, $15,000 per kilo wholesale. Middlemen were offering poachers in Assam $6250 a kilo   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1990 Increasing threats to Assam's rhinos. International Zoo News 37 (7): 28-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Value Indian Rhino Gauhati Zoo could auction a pair, which would fetch well over $100.000.   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1990 India: poachers killing rhinos by electrocution. Wildlife Conservation 93 (5): 16, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1989, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, $15,000 per kilo wholesale. Middlemen were offering poachers in Assam $6250 a kilo   details Hurong Ken Wei 1990 On the skin of elephant, rhinoceros and wild boar [in Chinese]. Journal of Chinese Medicinal Materials 1990: 22-25 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Thomson, R. 1989 Rhino-horn facts twisted. Personality 1989 April: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species I captured, moved and re-established some 140 black rhino in Zimbabwe during 24 years in that country's National Park service. My university thesis was on the black rhino. And in 1987 I acted as a consultant to a British film company in Zambia during the filming of a documentary on rhino poachi...   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Rose, B. 1989 [Letter] Rhino horn. Custos 18 (4): 7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value African Rhino Species South Africa. I found on the shelves of our local pharmacy tablets and ointment called Amandla, on the box of which is pictured the head of a black rhino. I have not analysed the contents, but I am alarmed by the association of the rhino on the box and label with what appears to be the aphrodis...   details Varisco, D.M. 1989 Beyond rhino horn - wildlife conservation for North Yemen. Oryx 23 (4): 215-219 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species International concern over the alarming decline in the world's rhinoceros populations has focused attention in recent years on the illegal trade in rhino horn to Asia and the Middle East. In eastern Asia, where the horn has long been used in traditional medicines, efforts have been directed at f...   details Cranbrook, Earl of 1987 Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia. Singapore, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. i-vii, 1-95 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The present predicament of both rhinos in SE Asia is chiefly attributable to the high value attached to their horns, in particular, other bodily organs and even blood.   details Anonymous 1987 The Tsavo Rhino Sanctuary, Kenya. International Zoo News 34 (4): 30-31, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The powdered horn is said to be a cure for snake-bites, typhoid, headache, carbuncles, boils, fever, vomiting, devil possession, hallucinations, and lack of sexual drive.   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1987, Africa, $850 per kg   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1984, S E Asia, IRS 100,000 per kg   details Cranbrook, Earl of 1987 Riches of the wild: land mammals of South-East Asia. Singapore, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. i-vii, 1-95 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species The present predicament of both rhinos in SE Asia is chiefly attributable to the high value attached to their horns, in particular, other bodily organs and even blood.   details Choudhury, A. 1987 Railway threat to Kaziranga. Oryx 21 (3): 160-163, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1969, S E Asia, IRS 33,600 per kg   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1985, Malaysia, $50 / gram on street   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In Indonesia it is prized as a cure for high fever and typhus, and as an anti-poison agent. Asian horn is favoured over African because its smaller size is believed to concentrate medicinal properties.   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1974, S.Africa, The selling price for rhino horn in 1974 was R 28 per kilo   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value African Rhino Species 1983, S Africa, In southern Africa only one trader has dealt in the skins, which are worth up to $ 3000 each.   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species North Yemenis also believe that rhino horn can suck out snake poison.   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1983, S Africa, The selling price for rhino horn in 1974 was R 28 per kilo; in early 1983 this had escalated to R500.   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1983, India, In India, Indian rhino horn sells for $ 9 000 per kilo, and all the animal is used. Yet rhino conservation has been successful until quite recently   details Mundy, P.J. 1984 Rhinoceros in South and South West Africa. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, Bophuthatswana, 15 and 16 February 1984. Johannesburg, Endangered Wildlife Trust, pp. 1-25 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Rhino skins are used in the Far East to cure human skin diseases. In southern Africa only one trader has dealt in the skins, which are worth up to $ 3000 each.   details Baidya, K.N. 1983 Alarming status of the Great Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Environmental Conservation 9 (4): 346-347, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species It is believed that, when powdered, rhino horn has high aphrodisiac potential, and so it is much valued by some--particularly mongoloid-groups of Asiatic peoples (Gee, 1964), while North Yemeni tribesmen take pride in carrying daggers with decorative handles made of rhino horn (World Wildlife Fun...   details Baidya, K.N. 1983 Alarming status of the Great Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Environmental Conservation 9 (4): 346-347, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species It is believed that, when powdered, rhino horn has high aphrodisiac potential, and so it is much valued by some--particularly mongoloid-groups of Asiatic peoples (Gee, 1964), while North Yemeni tribesmen take pride in carrying daggers with decorative handles made of rhino horn (World Wildlife Fun...   details Tajuddin Abdullah, M. 1982 Sumatran rhinoceros in Endau-Rompin and future. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 1: 19-21 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Baidya, K.N. 1982 Alarm call for Great Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tiger Paper 9 (2): 6-7, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species In spite of the enforcement of a tough antipoaching law (Indian Wildlife Act, 1972) this magnificent animal is still under severe threat for its horn. The single horn when fully developed may weigh up to 1.5 kg. and can reach 12 in. in length. It is believed that when in powder form, the horn h...   details Edroma, E.L. 1982 White rhino extinct in Uganda. Oryx 16 (4): 352-355, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1982, E.Africa, Rhino horn US$700 per kg   details Borner, M. 1979 What chance have the rhinos?. Oryx 15 (2): 111-112 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Borner, M. 1979 What chance have the rhinos?. Oryx 15 (2): 111-112 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. In Sumatra, all parts of the rhino are used and all fetch high prices, reports Markus Borner, who spent three years on a field study of the surnatran rhino. So the incentives to poach are very strong and the ruthless illegal hunting is probably as important a reason for this rhino's de...   details Veevers-Carter, W. 1979 Land mammals of Indonesia. Jakarta, PT Intermasa Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is believed to have medicinal qualities, and many rhinos have been killed for the horn alone, although there is no proof of its effectiveness.   details Brittain, V. 1978 Scramble for the last rhino horn. African Wildlife 32 (4): 34 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species For a long time the animals were of no value at all, Kayans and Kenyahs carved the Rhino horns into knife handles and sword hilts, there are several specimens in the Sarawak Museum. From about 1918 onwards the horns became very profitable in the export trade to China for medicine and this made t...   details Monks, E. 1977 Now rhino is on the way out in Kenya. Africana 6 (7): 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1976, Kenya, Rhino horn Shs. 900 per kg   details Monks, E. 1977 Now rhino is on the way out in Kenya. Africana 6 (7): 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1975, Kenya, Rhino horn Shs. 233 per kg.   details Mishra, H.R.; Mierow, D. 1976 Wild animals of Nepal. Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, pp. i-viii, 1-84 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino Superstitions have caused the demand for rhinoceros horn for religious worship, medicines and aphrodisiacs.   details Mishra, H.R.; Mierow, D. 1976 Wild animals of Nepal. Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, pp. i-viii, 1-84 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details MacNamara, M.C. 1975 Great Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis. Animal Kingdom 77 (3) Jun-July: inside back cover, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1975, China, In China, powdered horn commands prices comparable to those of illicit drugs in the United States. 1n 1965 it sold there for no less than $1,125 per kilogram (about 2.2 pounds).   details MacNamara, M.C. 1975 Great Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis. Animal Kingdom 77 (3) Jun-July: inside back cover, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Since ancient times, countless numbers have been slaughtered for their horn alone. As far back as the year 200, a Greco-Roman named Aelian wrote about the magical properties of rhino horn. Even in the twentieth century, many still believe this fibrous tissue to be a potent aphrodisiac.   details Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Fitter, R. 1974 Most endangered mammals: an action programme. Oryx 12 (4): 436-449, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species All known populations are already in reserves, and the problem is one of stopping poaching for the insatiable Chinese market for rhino horn as an aphrodisiac.   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1973, India, IRS 10.000 per kg on government auction   details Lahan, P.; Sonowal, R.N. 1973 Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam: a brief description and report on the census of large animals (March 1972). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70 (2): 245-278, tables 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1973, Kaziranga, During 1973 census one rhino horn weighing 1.139 kg was receovered, which has a value of about IRS 11,000   details MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The horn is used for everything from painkiller to easing childbirth, but the most popular use is as an aphrodisiac among elderly Chinese men.   details MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Banerjee, R. 1972 Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga. Cheetal 15 (1): 48-50, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species The chief sufferer has been the rhinoceros, which was slaughtered, to satisfy the demands of Chinese pharmacists since the rhinoceros. horn is famous for its alleged aphrodisiac properties.   details MacNeely, J.A.; Cronin, E.W. 1972 Rhinos in Thailand. Oryx 11 (6): 457-460, fig. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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.   details Anonymous 1969 Love may be the death of the Indian rhino. Life Magazine 66 (5), 7 February 1969: 66-69, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details McCulloch, B.; Achard, P.L. 1969 Mortalities associated with the capture, translocation, trade and exhibition of black rhinoceroses, Diceros bicornis. International Zoo Yearbook 9: 184-191 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Das, B.N. 1969 The role, management and economic function of a national park with special reference to Kaziranga. Indian Forester 95: 785-791, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1969, India, Highest price at departement auction IRS 9151/kg   details Anonymous 1969 Love may be the death of the Indian rhino. Life Magazine 66 (5), 7 February 1969: 66-69, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1969, India, Poachers can get $1200 or more for a single horn   details Medway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species 1968, Malaysia, dung readily bought   details Medway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Both species of rhinoceros are believed by both the Malays and Chinese to be a 'miracle animal' and that all parts of the animals have some medicinal value to cure all kinds of illness. It is believed that scrapings made into a brew and taken will cure cancer and other diseases.   details Medway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species 1968, Malaysia, blood, M$ 45 per ounce   details Schaurte, W.T. 1968 Threatened species of rhinoceros in tropical S.E. Asia: pp. 284-293 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species The most appalling drain on the Asiatic rhino population has come through the wanton killing of the animal for its horn, believed by the Chinese and other Asiatic populations to have powerful aphrodisiac properties. The amount of money received for one horn can be more than a lifetime's normal w...   details Medway, Lord; Balasingam, E. 1968 Status of conservation in Malaya: pp. 462-466 In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1968, Malaysia, M$ 350 per ounce   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species 1965, Malaya, $6 a pound   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1935, Malaya, small horn fetched about ? 100   details Harrisson, T. 1965 A future for Borneo's wildlife?. Oryx 8 (2): 99-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Chinese in Borneo. As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Alexander, A.; Player, I.C. 1965 A note on the nuchal hump of the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum (Burchell). Lammergeyer 3 (2): 5-9, pls. 1-2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Value African Rhino Species Ceratotherium simum - nuchal hump. The muscle itself makes for the edibility of the hump for neither the fat nor the skin, no matter how it was prepared, would be palatable alone.   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species 1965, Malaya, bone $3 a pound   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Rhino parts are mixed with herbs to make medicine. Horn is used as aphrodisiac and as antidote against poisons.   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Value Asian Rhino Species 1965, Malaya, fresh blood sells at $30 a pound, dried blood a little less   details MacKie, R. 1965 The company of animals. Sydney, London, Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, pp. i-ix, 1-225 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1960, Burma, rhino horn sold at US$200 per inch, a 7 inch horn sold at $1600   details Coolidge, H.J. 1964 Vanishing mammals of Asia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Zoology 8: 33-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Today the rhino horn and many other parts of the body, including the feces and urine, are sold at extremely high prices as cures for various ailments. The powdered rhino horn is especially prized as a care for male sterility and for rejuvenation. There is no doubt that these superstitions are e...   details Anonymous 1963 Animals in danger: the Great Indian rhinoceros. Animals 1 (22): 2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species horn is popularly supposed to have aphrodisiac properties.   details Hayashi, J. 1963 Marriage of the rhinoceroses. Animals and Zoo 15 (2): 23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Value Indian Rhino cost of male imported from Assam was 6,250,000 Yen.   details Andersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Dicerorhinus sumatrensis for Copenhagen. 'Subur' was shipped first to Singapore where she was met by the Curator from the Copenhagen Zoo, Mr Arne Schiotz, who remained with her, night and day until she left for Denmark - there was a very real danger of her horn being cut off if she were left alo...   details Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value Asian Rhino Species SE Asia. Today the rhino horn and many other parts of the body, including the feces and urine, are sold at extremely high prices as cures for various ailments.   details Bruton, R. 1963 The rhinos of South-East Asia. Conservation News 1963 August: 5-10, figs. 1-6, maps 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species In Asia today, the parts of the rhino are used mainly for 'medical' purposes, though in India there seems to be some spiritual significance.   details Davis, D.D. 1962 Mammals of the lowland rain-forest of North Borneo. Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum 31: 1-129, pls. 1-23, figs. 1-20 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Borneo. The horns of this animal are greatly prized by the Chinese for medicinal purposes, and the rhino has been greatly persecuted to supply the market with these.   details Alfred, E.R. 1961 Imitation rhino horns. Malayan Nature Journal 15 (1/2): 39-40, pls. 18-19 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Working in Raffles Museum, Singapore - fake horn cups. The existence of faked rhinoceros horns which have been confused as genuine ones, has been pointed out by Hooijer (1959) who described a specimen from Djakarta that was made from the horn of an ordinary water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis (Linn.)...   details Lithgow, T. 1961 Rhinos in danger: facing extinction in Crater Highlands. Wild Life, Nairobi 2 (4): 6-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Horn is used as aphrodisiac   details Alfred, E.R. 1961 Imitation rhino horns. Malayan Nature Journal 15 (1/2): 39-40, pls. 18-19 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value All Rhino Species Fake horn cups. The use of rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac in Chinese medicine is well known. Faced now with the near estinction of the Malaysian species of rhinoceros which are at the same time well protected by game laws, it is not surprising if substitute horns are being produced. Hooijer ...   details Montagne, P. 1961 Larousse Gastronomique: the encyclopedia of food, wine and cooking. Edited by Nina Froud and Charlotte Turgeon. London, Paul Hamlyn, pp. 1-1098 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Rhinoceros - Large, herbivorous, African and S. Asiatic pachyderm, very savage, whose flesh (mostly that of young animals) is edible. It is preferred to that of the elephant by natives who consider hippopotamus meat to be even better.   details Skafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Sumatra. The Chinese harbour an old superstition that a certain powder, made of the skin and horn of the rhino, has powerful aphrodisiac properties.   details Lithgow, T. 1961 Rhinos in danger: facing extinction in Crater Highlands. Wild Life, Nairobi 2 (4): 6-8 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value African Rhino Species Tanzania. Undoubtedly other rhino have been killed by Masai moran purely from bravado to impress their girl-friends or fellow-moran with their 'courage.' Therefore, until such time as the warrior or moran tradition dies out in the masai tribe, this will cause 'show-off' slaughter of rhino or lion.   details Lithgow, T. 1961 Rhinos in danger: facing extinction in Crater Highlands. Wild Life, Nairobi 2 (4): 6-8 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 1960, Tanzania, one pound of horn is ?10   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1959 Present status of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis (Fischer) in the Shwe-U-Daung Reserve, Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 56 (3): 625 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1959, Myanmar, from 500 kyats ($105) to 1000 kyats ($210) per inch   details Medway, Lord 1959 Rhinoceros' and pigs' teeth as Niah charms?. Sarawak Museum Journal 8: 637-638, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1959, Borneo, The 'dragon' teeth identified by Professor von Koenigswald (above) from Chinese pharmacies in Sarawak are quite expensive medicine. In Kuching they are sold by weight at $2.50 a tahil (4s. 4 ? d. an ounce); by comparison dried frogs and centipedes cost 5 cents each, and sea horses ...   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Arnold, G. 1959 Longhouse and jungle: an expedition to Sarawak. London, Chatto and Windus, pp. 1-206 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Sumatran Rhino Rhinoceros nearing extinction largely owing to the high prices the Chinese will pay, especially for the horn which they use as an aphrodisiac.   details Medway, Lord 1959 Niah animal bone, II (1954-8). Sarawak Museum Journal 9 (13/14): 151-163, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Value Asian Rhino Species Niah cave excavations 1954-58. Metapodials of rhinoceros in W/E1, 24-36', and X/W1, 48-60', prove that this animal was eaten at least twice in the cave mouth.   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1959 Present status of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis (Fischer) in the Shwe-U-Daung Reserve, Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 56 (3): 625 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species 1959, Myanmar, 500 kyats, $ 105 per 1 viss = 3.65 lb   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1959 Present status of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis (Fischer) in the Shwe-U-Daung Reserve, Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 56 (3): 625 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species 1959, Myanmar, 50 kyats, $10.50 per 1 viss=3.65 lb   details Ali, S.A.; Santapau, H. 1959 Present status of the two-horned rhinoceros, Didermocerus sumatrensis (Fischer) in the Shwe-U-Daung Reserve, Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 56 (3): 625 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Value Asian Rhino Species 1959, Myanmar, 5 kyats, $ 1.05 per half ounce   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 4 ...