|
|
 |
|
|
|
Reference Base  Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist |
|
| Title: |
Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist |
| Author(s): |
Medway, Lord |
| Year published: |
1977 |
| Publisher: |
Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7) |
| Volume: |
- |
| Pages: |
pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
 |
| File: |
View PDF: 303,1 kb |
 |
Any PDF files provided by the RRC are for personal use only
and may not be reproduced. The files reflect the holdings of the RRC
library and only contain pages relevant to rhinoceros study, and may not be
complete. Users are obliged to follow all copyright restrictions.
|
|
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Ten years later, T. Harrisson (1949) wrote, `There are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak', although he was able to report observations in 1946 from the upper S. Padas, in Sabah, and in 1945 from S. Raya and from high ground in the upper S. Bahau in Kalimantan. In the Kelabit upl... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| By the early 1930s, rhinoceroses could still be found in most parts of Borneo, but under acute hunting pressure survived only in remote and inaccessible terrain (Banks, 1931a; Zondag, 1931; Keller, 1932; Witkamp, 1932a). Banks (1931a) concluded, rather surprisingly in the light of his own eviden... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Yet in 1836, in the neighbourhood of Banjermasin, M?ller (1839-40) found no traces; his informant described a rhinoceros seen in the upper S. Kahayan, Central Kalimantan. Bock (1882) reported that the rhinoceros was 'very rarely captured' in southeastern Borneo (i.e. the region from Kutai to Ban... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In West Kalimantan, B?ttikofer found tracks and fresh droppings on the higher slopes of G. Liang Kubung, upper S. Kapuas, although not in the surrounding plains; he also reported that Malay rhino hunters were active, and regretted his own bad luck in not getting a specimen (Jentink, 1897). In 19... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Harrisson (1961b) later suggested that there were then `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'. J. L. Harrison (pers. comm., 1962) saw tracks on G. Kinabalu. |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| P. F. Burgess (in litt., 1963) found reliable evidence of animals surviving at S. Bole on the Segama, the Dent Peninsula, upper S. Kalumpang and Ulu Kuamat, Sabah. A less pessimistic estimate of numbers in eastern Sabah was given in 1970 (Anon., 1970), but was not corroborated by detailed eviden... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The original range of this rhinoceros undoubtedly covered all mainland Borneo, but by the time of the first scientific investigations of the mammal fauna, human depredations had already begun to take their toll and the species was rare in settled areas. That its natural habitat was not restricte... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| In the first report of rhinoceroses from Borneo in scientific literature, M?ller (1839-40) could offer as authentication only a secondhand description of a one-horned animal, suggesting the occurrence of the Javan Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest. A skull of this species was among a sm... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Harrisson (1961b) later suggested that there were then `probably not more than thirty in the whole island'. J. L. Harrison (pers. comm., 1962) saw tracks on G. Kinabalu, and P. F. Burgess (in litt., 1963) found reliable evidence of animals surviving at S. Bole on the Segama, the Dent Peninsula, ... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| By the early 1930s, rhinoceroses could still be found in most parts of Borneo, but under acute hunting pressure survived only in remote and inaccessible terrain (Banks, 1931a; Zondag, 1931; Keller, 1932; Witkamp, 1932a). Banks (1931a) concluded, rather surprisingly in the light of his own eviden... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Categories and original text of this Reference:
details