| Dollman, J.G. 1937 Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74 |
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Africa
Distribution - Reasons for decline
White Rhino
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| The White Rhinoceros of Africa is in rather a different position from the Asiatic species, as it is not only strictly protected by rules and regulations but these are enforced. In the days of the early settlers in South Africa this rhinoceros was so plentiful that it was all in a day's work for ... |
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| Dollman, J.G. 1937 Mammals which have recently become extinct in British North Borneo. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 67-74 |
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Asia
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Javan Rhino
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| The reason of this great scarcity is not difficult to ascertain. The horns of this and other species of rhinoceros are practically worth their weight in gold to the natives, who poach them, rhinoceros horn being used for medicinal purposes of a quack nature in the Far East. So much so is this t... |
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| Hornaday, W.T. 1918 Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park, 15th ed. New York, Zoological Society, pp. 1-192 |
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Africa
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African Rhino Species
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| The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros once was very abundant throughout the whole of the fertile plains region of east and south Africa, but the onslaughts of hunters have exterminated it from probably nine-tenths of the territory that it once occupied. To-day, the Englishmen of Africa are earnestly... |
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