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View full screenDicerorhinus sumatrensis, Sumatran rhinoceros, mount, subadult male, Dindings, West Malaya, c. 1900
Z.1902.78
species: Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - Sumatran rhinoceros
Specimen form: Mount, part skeleton
Sex: Male
Phase: Subadult
Skin, with skull and bone of limbs, stuffed
Dindings, Malaya, South East Asia
Specimen stuffed by Rowland Ward Ltd: Rowland Ward Ltd
Survival (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
The Straits Times, 27 July 1900, Page 2: The rhinoceros which was sent down from Perak to the Austrian Consul here, and was sent to the Botanical Gardens, prior to being forwarded to Vienna, has died. Death was due to a wound in the back caused by a stake which caught the animal when it fell into the pit
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