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Title: Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak
Author(s): Harrisson, T.
Year published: 1938
Publisher: London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd.
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-x, 1-254
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Sub-References for this reference:

Moore, A.W. 1938 A tribute, Ev: Kalulong: pp. 229-236

Harrisson, T. 1938 Remembered jungle: pp. 3-62

Harrisson, T. 1938 Zoology: pp. 245-251



Categories and original text of this Reference:

Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
Buffalo and rhino very rare and local within the area covered by the Oxford Expedition.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Poaching
Sumatran Rhino
The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Oxford Expedition. Used a path which they believed had been used by a Dyak hunter following up a rhinoceros some months before.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Chinese in Borneo. The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks, for the horn is of great value to the Chinese, who use it as an aphrodisiac.
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