Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1988 |
Authors: | Cranbrook |
Journal: | Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series |
Volume: | 42 |
Pagination: | Pagination missing - please provide |
Date Published: | 1988 |
Keywords: | Cuon alpinus, Panthera tigris |
Abstract: | The extant fauna of Borneo lacks several large mammal species that are widespread elsewhere in the Sunda region. Archaeological research in Borneo has already found remains of three of these in late Upper Pleistocene or Holocene contexts: the tiger, Panthera tigris; Malay tapir, Tapirus indicus; and Javan rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus. Evidence of a fourth, the dhole, Cuon alpinus, is now reported from a midden dated about 10 000 B.P. in Agop Sarapad, Madai caves, Sabah. Extinction of these species evidently occurred within the last few thousand years and it attributed to failure to adapt to the environmental consequences of post-glacial climatic changes.-Author" |
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