Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis (Northern Sumatran Rhino)

[Bhagatí]

Map Source: A. K. Mukherjee (1982) and A. Choudhury (1996)


from:
stp.unipune.ernet.in/zsi/photomap.html?code=99
and
stp.unipune.ernet.in/zsi/species.html

[Sebbe]

I think that this thread should be moved back to extinct, there is no information suggesting that populations still survive.

[Melanie]

Mar 14, 2013 13:10:42 GMT Sebbe said:

I think that this thread should be moved back to extinct, there is no information suggesting that populations still survive.

I think the same. IUCN assessment (2008) stated probably extinct

www.iucnredlist.org/details/6553/0

[Sebbe]

Here is an very interesting photograph of the female "Begum" taken at the London Zoo, where she lived from 15 February 1872 to 31 August 1900 (has the distinction of holding the record for the longevity in captivity for a Sumatran rhino). She was captured by "some villagers" on the Sungu River in the southern part of Chittagong Province, Bangladesh in November 1867. She was purchased by F. H. Hood who published a first description accompanied by an illustration in 1869 (Hood, 1869). Presumably Hood kept the rhino in Chittagong until plans were made for its transport some 2.5 years later (Anderson, 1872). The once famous animal dealer William Jamrach negotiated its purchase for London Zoo in November 1871, for £1250. "Begum" was also the type of the now extinct subspecies D. s. lasiotis.



Here is another three very interesting photographs of the male "Jackson" who also belonged to the now extinct D. s. lasiotis, he lived at London Zoo from 27 April 1886 to 22 November 22 1910. He was caught in the Bassein Ditrict "in an areas just west of Rangoon", Burma. When first seen by his captors he was in the company of his mother, who however escaped by plunging into the sea and swimming away, leaving her young calf behind (Flower, 1886). He arrived in Rangoon on 27 March 1884, and was then sent to Calcutta to be exhibited at Calcutta Zoo between 1884 and 1886. He was also the last Sumatran rhino ever displayed at London Zoo.

[Melanie]

The photos of Jackson can be also find in the book London Zoo from Old Photographes p 150-152

[Sebbe]

In 1967


- Choudhury, A. (2013): The Mammals of North East India. The Rhino Foundation

[Sebbe]

There is a very compherensive species account of this species in Choudhury (2013) including alot of previously unpublished and overlooked information about the past occurence of this species in north-east India.

Aruncachal Predesh: there were two definite records at Nam Tsai in 1895 (Henri, 1898) and in Noa-Dihing in about 1953 (Shebbeare, 1953), formerly probably present in Lohir district (now Changlang district) in or around Namdapha National Park. In the adjacent areas of Myanmar there are reports of continued occurence from Hukawn Valley in the 1990s.

Assam: present in small numbers until the first few decades of the 20th Century. In 1967 a stray rhino was recorded in the evergreen hill forest of Sonai RF of Cachar distict in southern Assam, which in all probability was R. sumatrensis (listed as R. sondaicus by the Forest department at the time). Until 1890 the species was infrequently encountered in the Katakhal and Inner Line RFS of Hailakandi distict in southern Assam. It was occasionally in NC hills in the 1930s (Milroy, 1935). Shooting of an animal in Brahmaputra Valley is mentioned by Ansell (1947).

Meghalaya: reported from Khasi hills (Anderson, 1872) and Garo hills (Pollock, 1878).

Mizoram: former abundance in this state is evident from Shakespear (1929) who wrote that it was found in the valleys of Mat and Kolodyne rivers as well as the peak of Darjow Klang, all in Southern Mizoram. Common in the 1930s (Milroy, 1935). Subsequently it was believed to be extinct, but stragglers were recorded until the 1960s with an excpetional record reported in 2009 when hunters and villagers in the Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh chased one which crossed over to Dampa TR: It was stalked by them up to the India-Bangladesh border.

Nagaland: stragglers reported from the Saramati area. At the turn of the 20th Century a rhino was killed by Khiamuniungan Nagas near Nohklak in Tuensang distinct. Its skull is still preserved in the village.
www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/117/1175857476.pdf
In 1967-68 a rhino was reported from Saramati on the lower slopes of this 3826m peak. In 1994 the Yimchunger Nagas of Fakim area near Saramati reported seeing a "dwarf rhino". One came down just below Saramati in November 1999.

Northern West Bengal: Inglis et al., (1919) mentioned that it no longer occurs in Jalpaiguri distict altough one shot on the Sankosh R. in 1864.

Tripura: in February 1876 a male rhino was killed 20 miles S of Comillah (Manson, 1878).

Source

- Choudhury, A. (2013): The Mammals of North East India. The Rhino Foundation. www.nhbs.com/title/192914/the-mammals-of-north-east-india

[surroundx]

Lander, Brian and Brunson, Katherine. (2018). The Sumatran rhinoceros was extirpated from mainland East Asia by hunting and habitat loss. Current Biology 28(6): R252-R253. [Abstract]

[surroundx]

Brandt, Jessica R. et al. (2018). Genetic structure and diversity among historic and modern populations of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Journal of Heredity. doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy019 [Abstract]

[Sebbe]

Mauled by a rhinoceros: the final years of Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1824) in India.

Alfred Duvaucel, stepson of Georges Cuvier, collected animals for the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Paris, France, during visits to India and South-East Asia from 1817 to 1824. In early 1823, he set out from Chandernagor traveling upstream on the Ganges, intending to reach Nepal or Tibet. During a short stop near Sakrigali in the Rajmahal Hills of Bihar, he was attacked by a rhinoceros and badly hurt on 24 January 1823. After receiving medical treatment in Bhagalpur, he reconsidered his plans and returned to Calcutta. He succumbed to his wounds aggravated by attacks of dysentery on his homeward journey, in Madras in August 1824. His letters written in the Rajmahal Hills were published by Jean-Jacques Coulmann in 1862. The zoological material collected was reviewed by his uncle Frédéric Cuvier, who inserted many details in the Histoire naturelle des mammifères, to which he added biographical notices. The presence of rhinoceros in the Rajmahal Hills (until about 1850) is often recorded, but the specific identity of these animals is uncertain in the absence of any surviving specimens. A mounted rhinoceros in the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg was said to be the one which killed Duvaucel, but as it is a two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros, unknown anywhere near Bihar, this needs further investigation.

sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/41/14

[Sebbe]

Rookmaker, K. (2024): The Rhinoceros of South Asia. Chapter 53 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: pp. 643–646.
brill.com/display/title/64767?contents=toc-116020

[redpinnipedgamer]

www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/images/Glass-slide-of-Sumatran-rhino_i1662907933.php


www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pictures/l/1662907933/Glass-slide-of-Sumatran-rhino.jpg

Photo of possible Northern Sumatran Rhino from London Zoo sometime during 1900. Humorously also labled as a "hippopotamus"

[redpinnipedgamer]

Aug 5, 2024 20:59:24 GMT redpinnipedgamer said:

www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/images/Glass-slide-of-Sumatran-rhino_i1662907933.php


www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pictures/l/1662907933/Glass-slide-of-Sumatran-rhino.jpg

Photo of possible Northern Sumatran Rhino from London Zoo sometime during 1900. Humorously also labled as a "hippopotamus"

This individual was likely named Jackson