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The Distribution and Status of the Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis, in Borneo—A Review The distribution and status of the rhinoceros, sum Dicerorhinus atrensis, in Borneo — a review by L.C. Rookmaaker Dokter Guepinlaan 23, Ommeren, The Netherlands Abstract ces to the rhinoceros. The following is an attempt In the second half of the 19th century, the rhinoceros occurred to collect these. northwestern throughout Borneo except southern Sarawak, For the latitudes and longitudes of the localities Kalimantan and some parts of southern Kalimantan. The I refer to "Atlas van Nederland" animal coastal and other areas tropisch was extinct in the populated may in about 1930, especially in the southern part of Kaliman- (anonymous, 1938) and "Gazetteerno. 13" (anon- scattered tan. Presently some small populations remain, over ymous, 1955). the Sarawak interior (if the rhinoceros survives at all there), northeastern Sabah, possibly also southern Sabah and around DISTRIBUTION Mt. Kinabalu, and the interior of Central and East Kali- It mantan. is estimated that some 15 to rhinos are still Some distribution the whole island 25 maps covering alive in Borneo. were published earlier. According to Guggisberg INTRODUCTION Since 1840 the rhinoceros is known to inhabit Borneo, but agreement about its specific identity reached until was not 1895 (Rookmaaker, 1977). The Bornean rhinoceros is presently regarded as a subspecies of the two-horned Sumatran kind, Di- cerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni (Groves, 1965). Erroneous beliefs in the aphrodisiacal and me- dicinal of rhinoceros properties many parts, espe- cially its horn, have reduced the animal to near- extinction. Protective laws are available (Chin, is 1971; Van Strien, 1974: 62-63) and generally it tried to practice them, but the difficulties are great. The survival of the rhinoceros to this day is mainly due to its occurrence in remote and uninhabitable regions. Consequently, studying it in the field, al- becomes hard has been though necessary, very as experienced in supposedly better populated areas in Sumatra and Malaysia. Map 1. Sketch-map of Borneo showing the rhinoceros distri- Therefore, the literature on Borneo remains as bution. ......... political boundaries; — possibleboundary the source to establish the only practical present of distribution ca. 1850; ------ approximate boundaries of which rhinoceros populations be and former distribution of the rhinoceros there. areas in can expected today. Fossil evidence shown as F1 (Niah cave), and F2 (Bau); More written statements about Borneo exist than rhinoceros became around d shows areas where the extinct but include rather few referen- one supposes, they 1930. Downloaded from Brill.com09/28/2021 06:20:20AM via free access 198 L. C. ROOKMAAKER - THE RHINOCEROS IN BORNEO (1966: 104), the animal lived throughout Borneo and Loch (1937: 145). Lydekker used the incor- in 1850, but "presently" only in northern Sarawak rect criteria of Busk (1869) to identify the teeth. and in East Kutai Therefore (unconfirmed) Kotawaringin, Hooijer (1945: 253; 1946a: 10) sus- and along the Reyang river. Groves (1967: 225) pected that they in fact belonged to D. sumatrensis, shows localities of some museum specimens. Krum- which was later confirmed by Medway (1965b: and Groves Kurt biegel (I960: 16, left) & (1972: 80, pl. XXI) who, unlike Hooijer, was able to fig. 4) doubt the former distribution in southern inspect the actual specimens. and Van Strien's Busk southwestern parts. maps (1974: (1869) discussed two further second exhibit the records he could find in the molars from Sarawak but their is 33, 34) upper origin literature. His of the shows unknown map present occurrence (Rookmaaker, 1977). Mt. Kinabalu and the East Kutai reserve. 1.2. Recent records Northern Sarawak: 1. SARAWAK Harrisson (1949: 71): formerly upper Limbang, especially 1.1. Fossil records Mt. Batu Lawi. — Banks (1931: 19): Lawas interior. — Banks (1935: 329): Mt. Mulu; none there in 1946 (Har- The excavations in the Niah cave have unearthed risson, 1949: 71). — Harrisson (1949: 71; 1955: 134; fossil rhinoceros material in several the 1956: Kelabit "within layers, 264): plateau living memory", or near Raya river. oldest with 14 183 cm deep corresponding a C date of 30,673 ± 700 B.C. years (upper pleisto- Upper Baram river: The material has been discussed Har- cene). by Banks (1931: 19), Harrisson (1949: 71): Baram district. risson (1957: 164, pi. Pb; 1961b: 90) and Med- — Harrisson (1956: 264): 79 rhinos killed in Baram district, — Arnold on 1964: 1925-1931. (1959: 94): hunting way (1958; 1959: 157-158; 37; especially first half Usun Apau plateau, 20th century; no traces in 1965b: 77-79). The fragments must belong to 1959. — Mjöberg (1929: 68): Mt. Murud, 1922. — D. of be sumatrensis, although none them can Cambridge Zoological Museum, no. 6383: Mt. Kalulong, Baram district; donated by Hose in 1896 (Groves & Kurt, identified unequivocally. A tendency to decrease 1972: fig. 2). — Cambridge Zoological Museum, no. in size from the pleistocene to the average present, 6381: Baram district; donated by Hose in 1898 (Groves, demonstrated in — several large mammals, has been in litt., June 1975). Sarawak Museum, Kuching, no. 64.19: lower jaw from Baram in described for Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, (Chin, litt., February 1976) . 1822, by Hooijer (1946a: 27; 1946b). Similarly, Sumatran of recent teeth D. sumatrensis are nor- Reyang river: smaller than from that mally the subfossil ones Wallace (1874), Bartlett (1891), Banks (1931: 19), Harrisson (1965: 102): course of Reyang river. — island (Hooijer, 1946a: 16-29), which Sody upper Harrisson (1955: 134), Chin (in litt., February 1976): (1946) named D. s. eugenei. There is some evi- Baleh, upper Reyang river; front horn confiscated (Sarawak dence for similar — a trend towards size diminution Museum, Kuching, no. 59/64). Banks (1931: 19): strays in ulus Oya and Mukah !). — Sarawak Museum, in Borneo material (Medway, 1965b: 81; Groves no. 64.20: Jalat, 1926 (Chin, in litt., February 1976). — & Kurt, 1972: 3), but it is insufficient to draw Sarawak Museum: several skulls and horns from Reyang certain any conclusions. district (Bartlett, 1891; Chin, in litt., February 1976). The British Museum received in 1884, from Southern Sarawak: P. L. Sclater, some fossil rhinoceros bones and Banks (1931: 19): never found "on the left bank of the in upper molars, found an alluvial cave deposit Rejang or down into Saribas and Sarawak proper", cf. Bau (upper pleistocene?) near in southwestern Gomes (1911: 149) and Low (1848). Only fossil remains from Bau (see § 1.1). Sarawak, at a depth of some 20 m (Beccari, 1904: 135; Medway, 1965b: — not at Paku 80) (Banks, 1.3. Conclusion The skeleton 1931: 21). was catalogued under In the this first decennia of century the species D. sumatrensis, but the molars (British Museum occurred from the Lawas interior in the north M. (Natural History) cat. no. 1968) were "pro- (ca 04°30'N) southward along the border with visionally referred to" R. sondaicus (cf. Lydekker, 1886: 129), as was noted by Banks (1931: 21) !) ulu = headwaters. Downloaded from Brill.com09/28/2021 06:20:20AM via free access BIJDRAGEN TOT DE DIERKUNDE, 47 (2) - 1977 199 Baram and ulu Kin a a Kalimantan (ulu Reyang). The Upper bat n g a n : Harrisson Kina- regions nearer to the coast were inhabited formerly (1956: 265), Burgess (1961: 150): upper batangan river. — in a conviction in Burgess (loc. cit.): 1958 (fossil evidence Niah) but in more recent times in Ranau for illegally shooting a rhinoceros. only occasionally. The rhinoceros recently did not Western Sabah: occur south of the Reyang river, but again fossil Sandilands (1974): Tambunan man told him that permits remains were found there, at Bau. to shoot one specimen were sold for $ 25 between 1903 and 1928. He found tracks in the ulu Karamuak in I960, but none in 1974. — Harrisson (1956: 265): around Mt. 2. SABAH Trus Madi and eastward to the Kinabatangan river, asserted officials by government in 1952; no traces there in 1956. 2.1. Recent records — Harrisson (1956: 266): Pretyman shot a rhinoceros General: — near Kota Kinabalu, early this century. British Museum (Natural History), no. 1875.8.9.18.: mainland opposite Raffles Museum, Singapore: North Borneo, donated by Labuan Island, according to Jentink (1884: 556); possibly Rowe in 1901 (Hanitsch, 1908: 8). — Bristol City Mu- incorrect. seum, no. A. 1031: "British Borneo" (Groves, in litt., June 1975). — De Silva (1968: 145): one seen by Northwestern Sabah: member of Forest Department in 1957. — De Silva (in Medway (1965a: 155): J. L. Harrison saw tracks on Mt. litt., June 1975): one seen in 1969 and evidence of Kinabalu — in 1962. Corner (1964: 17, 20): Mt. Kinabalu, rhinoceros found in 1971 and 1974. 8,000 feet, toothmarks on bark of a tree; a few animals 10,000 feet — Sandakan district: expected on eastern ridge. Jenkins (1971: 177), Harroy (1971: 337), Van Strien (1974: 34): Mt. Pryer (1881: 394): specimens and tracks often seen near Kinabalu, based — on Corner and Medway. Museum Sandakan. — shot Burbidge (1880: 302): young on Saga- specimen from Mt. Kinabalu incorrectly shown on the liad river, 20 miles from Sandakan, by T. S. Dobree. — in Groves Van Strien map (1967: 225), repeated by (1974: Harrisson (1956: 266-267): in 1889 H. Edgar Hughes 31). — Jenkins (1971: 177): unauthenticated record from shot one along the lower ( ?) Kinabatangan river. — Mt. Tambuyokan in 1970. — Evans (1922: 58): occasion- Several specimens were sent to European musea from "in the which from Kinabalu in the ally seen range runs Sandakan in the cf. Rookmaaker 19th century, (1977: 59). direction of Kudat." — No 20th century records from this region. 2.2. Conclusion Northeastern Sabah: Formerly the rhinoceros was probably distributed Harrisson (1949: 71; 1965: 102): some survivors in north- throughout Sabah. Reports from the first half of eastern Sabah. — Burgess (1961: 150): Darvel bay forests this are almost nonexistent. it and Dent peninsula; in 1958 indications of illegal hunting century Presently in the Darvel bay district.
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