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Java, the pearl of the East |
| Author(s): |
Higginson, S.J. |
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1890 |
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Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co |
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pp. i-viii, 9-204 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Habitat
Javan Rhino
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| The rhinoceros roams through the forests and jungles on the highest mountains, often descending to the salt swamps and flats skirting the sea for salt water. |
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Javan Rhino
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| The rhinoceros is fierce, but flies from man. When wounded or a female with calf, the rhino is dangerous and hard to kill. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1890, Java, One horn sells for 40 to 150 florins |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Javan Rhino
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| He is generally unaccompanied, is unsocial and fierce. Sometimes 7 or 8 assemble and visit a coffee or cinchona plantation where they commit serious depredations by eating the tender shoots and uprooting the younger trees. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| The carcass of a rhino is prized by the natives, especially by the Java Chinese, who even use the skin in preparations of food. The hide resembles that of a hippopotamus.
The horn is highly valued by natives, who belive it will extract the poison of applied to the bite of a serpent or scorpion.... |
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Java, the pearl of the East
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