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Post by another specialist on May 9, 2005 18:42:25 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 9, 2005 18:43:36 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 21, 2005 12:05:05 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jun 23, 2005 11:27:42 GMT
This is a note from the Commitee of Recently Extinct Organisms: Swamp deer recorded previously from specimens purchased in Thailand in 1932. Recently, a pair of swamp deer antlers, apparently fresh, were found in a traditional medicine shop in Laos (Schroering, 1995). Listed by IUCN '96 as Cervus duvaucelli schomburgki, but without a settled status. creo.amnh.org/datadwnld.htmlHere you can download two zip-files with lists (xls-format) of recently extinct mammals and fish. WinZip/ or WinRar required / MS Excel / or xls-compatible required / Subsription required. |
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Jun 23, 2005 17:26:28 GMT
The last Schomburgk's Deer was shoot near Sayok by a policemenan in September 1932. That was the last wild specimen (until recent records, if they are correct). The last captive animal was indeed a temple pet, and was indeed killed by a drunk. It seems that the animal, which was very tame, tried to beg for food or something like that; at any rate, the man felt threatened and beat it to death. Thai name was sman |
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Post by Peter on Jun 24, 2005 13:40:20 GMT
Thanks Melanie! For puting a link for those databases. I have tried to download it some years ago, but than I didn't succeed. Now I did!
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Post by Peter on Jun 24, 2005 13:47:46 GMT
The links of the images that I included in my previous posts were broken! I've updated the links, so that the images can be seen again.
One is of the photo of a live Schomburgk's Deer in Berlin, from the book Walker's Mammals of the World.
And another is a scan of the following article:
Schoering, W.B., 1995. Swamp Deer resurfaces. Wildlife Conservation, vol 98, December, p22.
It contains a image of the fresh Schomburgk's Deer antlers.
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Post by another specialist on Jul 16, 2005 8:25:34 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 16, 2005 8:27:20 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Aug 6, 2005 6:25:06 GMT
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Post by Peter on Aug 8, 2005 14:06:45 GMT
The last image is the specimen in the Paris Natural History Museum (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle) in France. This specimen was brought back of Siam, current Thailand, in 1862, by Bocourt and lived in the menagerie of the Paris Natural History Museum where he died in 1868. It is the single mounted specimen in the entire world.
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Post by another specialist on Aug 8, 2005 15:08:25 GMT
thanks for the info Peter
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Post by sebbe67 on Oct 12, 2005 18:30:21 GMT
The sman is unique to Thailand and once roamed the central plains. It has a graceful body with beautiful antlers making it one of the most beautiful deer.
But they were hunted into extinction in 1938. Today we are left only with pictures and stories from the past.
It had two equal sized toes on their hooves and antlers were found only on the male. The brow tine grew to an angle of 60 degrees to the face and the length of each branch was about 30 centimeters. At each end were 2 sub-branches. The beam was about 12 centimeters in length and perpendicular to the brow tine. The branches grow on top of each other for two to three layers. On average each side had about 8-9 branches. This gave the sman's antlers an appearance similar to a basket thus earning it the name "basket deer". The average length of the sman's antlers was 65 centimeters.
It measured at the shoulder a height of 1 meter. The body hairs during winter were rough and long and the color was brown with a darker shade or black found on the nose area. The cheeks, body, and underside of the tail were lighter.
The female was very similar to the la-mang and caused villagers to believe that there was only male sman. They would mate with the la-mang and the offspring would be either a sman or la-mang.
Living along the Chao Phya River plains around Bangkok and the surrounding areas, they roamed the area from Samut Prakarn to Sukhothai and in the east they were found in Nakhon Nayok to Chachengsao. On the west they were found from Suphan Buri to Kanchanaburi, truly native to Thailand.
It did not like dense forests because their antlers would get caught in and lived in small herds feeding in the early evenings to the morning.
During the day the sman would sleep and hide in tall grass. It is believed that the sman are now extinct from Thailand and from the world. The last reported sman has been shot in Kanchanaburi in 1932 and there was another report of one beaten to death at a temple in Samut Sakorn in 1938 because it came too close people.
There has been no reports of sightings of the sman from that day to the present. Prior to the extinction there were efforts by foreigners to capture these animals and breed them, however all failed because the Thais did not cooperate because they do not see the importance.
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Post by another specialist on Oct 20, 2005 14:44:15 GMT
What was your source sebbe67?
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Post by Melanie on Oct 20, 2005 15:24:49 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 20, 2005 17:50:49 GMT
thanks Melanie for the source. I'll go and have a read in a sec
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Post by sebbe67 on Mar 14, 2006 17:46:29 GMT
 Source: The Doomsday book |
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Post by another specialist on Mar 14, 2006 21:43:30 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Mar 14, 2006 21:46:08 GMT
Schomburgk's Deer (Rucervus schomburgki) last shot in 1932 at Sayok, Thailand 3.5' bamboo/tropical savanna herd browsing herbivore ranged from Yunnan to Indochina specimen in Paris disappeared after hunting for medicine; also declined due to agricultural habitat loss References: Harper, F. Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Old World QL707.H37 1945 p.437 Nilsson, G. The Endangered Species Handbook QL82.N55 1983 ISBN 0-938-424-09-7 p.212 Ziswiler, V. Extinct and Vanishing Animals QL88.Z513 1967 p.113 www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/SchoDeer.htm |
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Post by Peter on Apr 22, 2006 15:51:02 GMT
Germany has had certainly Schomburgk's deer in some zoos. The photo posted earlier shows one in Berlin Zoo (does anyone know the date of the photo with source? Here are mentioned two dates: 1911 and 1920s). The breeding record (of the Hamburg Zoological Garden), too, was impressive: it was the first zoo in the world, for example, to breed both the Brazilian and the Malayan tapir (in 1868 and 1879 respectively), as well as the now extinct Schomburgk's deer (1870). Source: Reichenbach, H. 2002. Lost Menageries - Why and how zoos disappear (part 2). International Zoo News Vol. 49/4 (No. 317) June 2002. www.zoonews.ws/IZN/317/IZN-317.htm. |
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