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| Title: |
The rare large mammals of Malaya |
| Author(s): |
Stevens, W.E. |
| Year published: |
1968 |
| Journal: |
Malayan Nature Journal |
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22 (1) |
| Pages: |
10-17, fig. 1, table 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| Metcalfe (1961) estimated that there were 50 Sumatran rhinoceroses remaining in Malaya, though he conceded that the actual figure might lie between 30 and 70 animals. Milton (1963), after spending a year or so studying the situation, decided that Metcalfe was reasonably correct in his estimate, ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
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| There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Reports from Ulu Perak, Gunong Chamah in Kelantan, the Kerau Reserve and two other localities in Pahang, and the Johore coast south of Mersing are of one or two animals only. Those may be wanderers with little chance of contributing to an increase in population. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Reports from Ulu Perak, Gunong Chamah in Kelantan, the Kerau Reserve and two other localities in Pahang, and the Johore coast south of Mersing are of one or two animals only. Those may be wanderers with little chance of contributing to an increase in population. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Reports from Ulu Perak, Gunong Chamah in Kelantan, the Kerau Reserve and two other localities in Pahang, and the Johore coast south of Mersing are of one or two animals only. Those may be wanderers with little chance of contributing to an increase in population. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| The species has come to its present precarious position through many years of persecution for its horn, and other body products to be used as medicine. Although the supply is all but finished the demand still remains, so the danger of losing more animals to unscrupulous poachers is as real as ev... |
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Location:
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Species:
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| There are four areas where rhinoceroses are present in sufficient numbers that breeding might be possible - the National Park, the Sungei Dusun Reserve in Selangor, the Ulu Selama area of Perak and the Sungei Emas region of Johore. The last two have been recommended as permanent sanctuaries. |
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The rare large mammals of Malaya
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