File AvailableOtto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185
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Sumatran Rhino
The first horn was shining black and about 20 cm long, the second was quite small. Another animal: front horn 11 cm, second horn 5 cm.
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File AvailablePeel, C.V.A. 1903 The zoological gardens of Europe: their history and chief features. London, F.E. Robinson, pp. i-xiv, 1-256
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Sumatran Rhino
house contained Indian and Sumatran rhino.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1903 A unique pet (in North Borneo). Rugby Advertiser Tuesday 21 April 1903: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1903 La gran tienda de fieras. Notas curiosas de este comercio. Alrededor del Mundo No. 197 (13 March 1903): 173-174
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File AvailableMaxwell, G. 1903 The Pinjih rhino. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 174: 258-276
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File AvailableMaxwell, G. 1903 The Pinjih rhino. Living Age 138 (3089) 19 September 1903: 739-754
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1902 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for 1902. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-4
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Sumatran Rhino
The most important donation received was a female Rhinoceros sumatrensis which, although belonging to the Austrian Government, had been on exhibition in the Museum since 1900. The acting Consul-General for Austria, Mr R. von Pustau, kindly presented this valuable specimen to the Museum in February.
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File AvailableKnottnerus-Meyer, T. 1902 Der Zoologische Garten zu Antwerpen. Zoologische Garten A.F. 43 (6): 176-186
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
one Sumatran rhino.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1902 Arrival of a rhinoceros. Straits Times, Singapore 4 June 1902: 4
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The Malacca landed a rhinoceros at the wharf yesterday [complete text]
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File AvailableAnonymous 1902 Pet baby rhinoceros. Straits Times, Singapore 2 September 1902: 4
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableBuckley, C.B. 1902 An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore. Singapore, Fraser & Neave, vol. 1
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File AvailableHornaday, W.T. 1902 Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park as far as completed, 5th ed. New York, Zoological Society
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p.102 (no illustration)
THE SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS.

On March 25, 1902, the Zoological Society received by pur-
chase a fine female specimen of the Sumatran, or Hairy
Rhinoceros, (Rhinoceros sumatrensis) . She was captured
in the territory of Perak, Malay Peninsula, purchased f...
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skull, head skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Chittagong. Collected by: Zoological Society of London. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1901.1.22.1
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skull, head skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Chittagong. Collected by: Zoological Society of London. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1901.1.22.1
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skull, head skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Chittagong. Collected by: Zoological Society of London. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1901.1.22.1
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Lately, however, two examples of R. sumatrensis have been on view at the Botanic Gardens and some notes on them may prove of interest. Both were females trapped at S'tiawan in Perak.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. In both the front horn was very short, a mere conical process, and the only trace of the second horn was a small rough plate in the older one, and even that was absent in the second one.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The biggest and evidently the oldest measured 4 feet 8 inches at the shoulder with a length of 7 feet 4 inches to the root of the tail which was 22 inches long.
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File AvailableHartert, E. 1901 Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers: Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknupfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien. Berlin, R. Friedlander and Sohn; London, R.H. Porter and 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. i-xv, 1-329
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is not really rare in the lowland forests of all N.E. Sumatra. I once saw one in the forest at Serdang, where I came across aprobably adult animal, which just walked away.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
These animals in captivity are very quiet for most of the day remaining immersed in a wallow of liquid mud and thickly coated with it after the manner of a buffalo. During the evening and night they are much more active roaming up and down the enclosure.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
R.lasiotis. In the first place, with regard to the external characters of colour and hair development, a comparison of the head-skin of R. lasiotis with the two specimens in the Museum of 'Ceratorhinus niger' leads me to the conclusion that the differences described were mainly due to age. For ...
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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World
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Type of R. lasiotis. The following are its measurements, given in inches for comparison with those published by Sir W. Flower in 1878: Length from occipital crest to end of nasals, in straight line 23 5/8. With tape over curve of nasals 24.5 ; greatest zygomatic breadth 12 7/8 ; interor...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. They ate sweet potatoes, sugar cane, champedak, fruits and leaves, and the leaves of the Mahang Putih (Macaranga hypoleuca) and various species of Ficus, especially the Waringin (Ficus Benjamina) and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak m...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Sumatran Rhino
They ate sweet potatoes [etc] and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak much out of proportion to the size of the animal. They made no other noise except by snorting now and then but in the forests, what I suppose to be the same species makes a loud neighing sound.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
The animals were both of a quiet and inoffensive disposition, allowing themselves to be stroked and patted and readily fed from the hand although they had been quite recently caught.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
R. lasiotis. Nor is there in colour any difference worthy of note, that described by Selater having apparently disappeared with advancing age.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The hide is covered everywhere with stiff black hairs, longest on the ears.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Species:
World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
R.lasiotis. In the first place, with regard to the external characters of colour and hair development, a comparison of the head-skin of R. lasiotis with the two specimens in the Museum of 'Ceratorhinus niger' leads me to the conclusion that the differences described were mainly due to age. For ...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The hide is covered everywhere with stiff black hairs, longest on the ears.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The hide is covered everywhere with stiff black hairs, longest on the ears.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
R. lasiotis. Nor is there in colour any difference worthy of note, that described by Selater having apparently disappeared with advancing age.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Ecology - Food
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. They ate sweet potatoes, sugar cane, champedak, fruits and leaves, and the leaves of the Mahang Putih (Macaranga hypoleuca) and various species of Ficus, especially the Waringin (Ficus Benjamina) and when they wanted food call for it with a kind of whistle or squeak m...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Species:
Captive - Asia
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. In both the front horn was very short, a mere conical process, and the only trace of the second horn was a small rough plate in the older one, and even that was absent in the second one.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The hide is covered everywhere with stiff black hairs, longest on the ears.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Captive - Asia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
These animals in captivity are very quiet for most of the day remaining immersed in a wallow of liquid mud and thickly coated with it after the manner of a buffalo. During the evening and night they are much more active roaming up and down the enclosure.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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World
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
(Sub)species of Sumatran Rhino. On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong, and the characters of which it is only fitting should be here noted, now that its skull and headskin have passed into the possession of the National Museum...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Sumatran Rhino
They drink remarkably slowly and only a small quantity at a time, eat very large quantities of food, and pass the excreta always in exactly the same spot and almost always at night as the tapir does.
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Captive - Europe
Ecology - Population
Sumatran Rhino
On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong. As the animal was captured in January 1868, its age at death was more than 32 years.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
Lately, however, two examples of R. sumatrensis have been on view at the Botanic Gardens and some notes on them may prove of interest. Both were females trapped at S'tiawan in Perak. The biggest and evidently the oldest measured 4 feet 8 inches at the shoulder with a length of 7 feet 4 inches to...
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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Species:
Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong. As the animal was captured in January 1868, its age at death was more than 32 years. The first reference to this specimen is an account of its external characters given by the late Dr. A...
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File AvailableThomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158
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World
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
Further material may also prove that the typical horn of Gray's 'Rhinoceros crossii' belongs to the northern subspecies, in which case the name crossii will have to supersede lasiotis. But this identification is as yet too doubtful to be definitely accepted.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106
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Captive - Asia
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Singapore, Botanic Gardens. The biggest and evidently the oldest measured 4 feet 8 inches at the shoulder with a length of 7 feet 4 inches to the root of the tail which was 22 inches long.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1901 Straits Settlements. Annual Report of the Botanic Gardens for the year 1901. Singapore, Government Printing Office
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Captivity
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableDum Dum 1901 R.I.P. Elegy on a rhinoceros, lately deceased. Homeward Mail from India, China and the East 1901 January 21: 67
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Dum Dum, 1901. R.I.P. Elegy on a rhinoceros, lately deceased. Homeward Mail from India, China and the East 1901 January 21: 67
** Dum Dum is pseudonym of John Kaye Kendall 1869-1952
R.I.P.
Elegy on a Rhinoceros, Lately Deceased
Come, let us weep for Begum; he is dead.
Dead; and afa...
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File AvailablePollok, F.T. 1901 A disastrous trip. Wide World Magazine 8: 192-197
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Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skull - sumatrensis. Perak Museum, Malaysia
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Sumatran Rhino
Skull. In coll. Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
60 horns. In coll. , no data. In Siamese Museum, Bangkok, Thailand.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skeleton. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skull - lasiotis. Perak Museum, Malaysia
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File AvailableNieuwenhuis, A.W. 1900 In Centraal Borneo: reis van Pontianak naar Samarinda. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-369, i-xvi
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
One of the people went to the watersource on the mountain, but found the spring occupied by a rhinoceros which ran away quickly. During the climb we were much helped by the paths made by the rhinos which was so steep that we had to walk on hands and feet. About half-way up the mountain we found...
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File AvailableNieuwenhuis, A.W. 1900 In Centraal Borneo: reis van Pontianak naar Samarinda. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-369, i-xvi
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Upper Mahakam. One of the hunters met a rhinoceros which was disturbed in the bed of a small stream by the noise of dogs trying to get at some otters in a hole. The rhinoceros did not wait for an attack, but went away, while the dogs did not date to oppose this enormous animal.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr Ridley (JSBRAS, 1894) mentions having seen tracks of some species of rhinoceros in the Tahan River woods, Pahang, where he also heard the animal at night.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The turf was plough up at one of these grassy patches by rhinoceros, but the animals were not seen.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, ?I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. It was about 8 to 9 feet in length (guessed).
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
W.L.Sclater (Cat.Mamm.1891) records specimens from Malacca
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The Bangkok Times for 11 November 1897 mentions a rhino being shot by Mr. C. Ephraums - no species indicated - few details: animal was seen at a sulphur spring within 6 miles of Ipoh, Perak, it was an old male, 6 feet high at the shoulder and about 8 feet in length; his horn measured 13 inches an...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, ?I went to see a big rhinoceros in apitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily f...
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr Ridley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Sclater (1875) mentions a rhinoceros of this species ?captured in the Sunghi-njong (probably Sungei-Ujong) district of Malacca' and says other specimens ?from the same district or the neighbouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe.'
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Species:
World
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily ...
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1900 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for 1900. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-11
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Asia - South East Asia - Singapore
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
The most important addition, though it is only on loan, was a female Rhinoceros sumatrensis. It was caught in Perak for the Austrain Government, but died in Singapore before it could be shipped to Europe, and was mounted by the Museum staff. The Acting Consul-General for Austria, Mr. R. von Pusta...
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Species:
World
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis: dark reddish-brown in colour.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Sumatran Rhino
An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species.
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File AvailableFlower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1
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Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis: dark reddish-brown in colour.
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File AvailableBolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336
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Sumatran Rhino
Zoo Hamburg. One Sumatran Rhinos lived for 4 yrs 2 months and 6 days in the zoo.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, I went to see a big rhinoceros in a pitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. It measured 4 feet 3 inches at shoulder, measured with a standard.
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30
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Sumatran Rhino
Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, 'I went to see a big rhinoceros in apitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily f...
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File AvailableBolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336
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Sumatran Rhino
Zoo Hamburg. One Sumatran Rhinos lived for 4 yrs 2 months and 6 days in the zoo.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1900 Rhino sent to Austrian consul in Singapore. Straits Times, Singapore 24 July 1900: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
A large rhinoceros has been sent to the Austrian Consul at Singapore from Perak. It is at present located at the Botanical Gardens, and later on it will be sent ti the Vienna Botanical Gardens. [complete text]
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File AvailableAnonymous 1900 Rhino died in Singapore. Straits Times, Singapore 27 July 1900: 2
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The rhinoceros which was sent down from Perak to the Austrian Consul here, and was sent to the Botanical Gardens, prior to being forwarded on to Vienna, has died. Death was due to a wound in the back caused by a stake which caught the animal when it fell into the pit.
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File AvailableLondon Zoo 1900 The death of Begum [Sumatran Rhinoceros in London Zoo]. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser Saturday 08 September 1900
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1900 Bartlett's life among wild beasts in the "zoo" : being a continuation of Wild animals in captivity : the habits, food, management and treatment of the beasts and birds at the 'zoo' with reminiscences and anecdotes . London, Chapman and Hall
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File AvailableRidley, H.N. 1900 Straits Settlements. Annual Report of the Botanic Gardens for the year 1900. Singapore, Government Printing Office
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableF.S.B. 1900 Sport in the Arakan Yomas, Lower Burma. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 96 (2492), 1900 September 29: 496
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File AvailableEpstein, L. 1899 Ein Ausflug nach den zoologischen Garten von Holland und Belgien. Zoologische Garten A.F. 40: 5-12
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Sumatran Rhino
one specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis.
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File AvailableGreenwood, J. 1899 The adventures of Reuben Davidger: seventeen years and four months captive aming the Dyaks of Borneo. London etc., Ward, Lock & Co
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableGreenwood, J. 1899 The adventures of Reuben Davidger: seventeen years and four months captive aming the Dyaks of Borneo. London etc., Ward, Lock & Co
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableWeld, F. 1899 Rhinoceros killed in Kinta District. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 30 January 1899: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableNeumann, A.H. 1898 Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Loroge Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xix, 1-455
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Sumatran Rhino
Rivers Pane and Bila, Sumatra. Rhinos of two species are found both in the plains and on the highest and most inaccessible mountains.
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File AvailableHanitsch, R. 1898 Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Raffles Museum. Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for the year ending 31 Dec 1898, pp. 1-6
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Sumatran Rhino
The list contains under Ungulata:
Rhinoceros sumatrensis [Skeleton]
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File AvailableHenri d'Orleans 1898 De Tonkin aux Indes, Janvier 1895 - Janvier 1896. Paris, Calmann Levy, pp. i, 1-442
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Sumatran Rhino
On 1 Dec 1895, we climbed into the valley of Nam Tsa? on a reasonably good road. The public works on bridges and roads are done here by the rhinoceros who level and enlarge the paths by their frequent passage.
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File AvailableRathborne, A.B. 1898 Camping and tramping in Malaya: fifteen years' pioneering in the native states of the Malay Peninsula. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, pp. i-x, 1-339
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableLondon Zoo 1898 The new rhinoceros. Leeds Times Saturday 22 October 1898
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1898 Horn removed from the female Rhinoceros lasiotis in London Zoo. Zoologist (ser.4) 2: 142
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1898 Notes on the zoological collections of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp. Zoologist (ser.4) 3: 316-320
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1898 The surgeon at the zoo [Horn removal of Sumatran rhino]. The Sketch Wednesday 9 March 1898: 22
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1898 New rhinoceros at the zoo. London Evening Standard Thursday 29 September 1898: 6
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableFea, L. 1897 Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regione vicine, LXXVI. Roassunto generale dei risultati zoologici. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 37: 385-658
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Sumatran Rhino
[Results of travel to Burma and adjoining regions in 1895] Specimens in the collection: 55. Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuv..
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File AvailableJentink, F.A. 1897 Zoological results of the Dutch Scientific Expedition to Central Borneo: The mammals. Notes from the Leyden Museum 19: 29-66, pls. 2-3
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableStetson, G.R. 1897 The fauna of Central Borneo. Science 5 (121): 640-643
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 A rhinoceros caught. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser 31 May 1897: 2
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Sumatran Rhino
It is stated at Penang that a young rhinoceros was captured by some Kedah Malays last Monday, in a dry well, about a mile from Pinang Tunggul station. The tracks of a very large rhinoceros were distinctly seen near the post. The Malays there complain of the destruction of their padi by these anim...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 Rhinoceros caught in Penang. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 1 June 1897: 10
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableAnonymous 1897 Rhinoceros pair on display in Singapore. Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly) 14 December 1897: 379
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableClay, A.L. 1896 Leaves from a diary in lower Bengal. London, Macmillan
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Sumatran Rhino
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