This is Mike Cabarles, director of The Littlest Rhino. I love this footage from the camera trap!

We were going to try to do the same thing in 2003 but our budget ran out. I’m glad someone finally did it!

Still I’m happy that we got some great steadicam footage of the West Malaysian Sumatran Rhinos in their native habitat (in a sanctuary at Sungai Dusun) and the Borneo Sub species in captivity in Sepilok.

The rhinos in Sepilok, seemed to have finer features, smoother, darker skin but like the West Malaysian relatives, they still developed the hairy growth if they are without a mud wallow for long.

The programme, aired on National Geographic, but was never released for retail distribution.

You’ll find a sample clip here.

At last, a DVD will be soon be available at http://www.thelittlestrhino.com, and you can see these animals up close, in the light of day!

Cheers!

This is Mike Cabarles, director of The Littlest Rhino. I love this footage from the camera trap, we were going to do this in 2003 but our budget ran out. Still I’m pleased that we got some great footage of the Sumatran Rhinos and the Borneo Sub species in captivity in Sepilok.

The rhinos in Sepilok, seemed to have finer features, smoother, darker skin but like the West Malaysian relatives, they still developed the hairy growth if they are without a mud wallow for long.

The programme, filmed in a Sanctuary at Sungai Dusun, aired on National Geographic, but was never released for retail distribution.

You’ll find a sample clip here on youtube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2ehNR7jKyE

At last, a DVD will be soon be available at http://www.thelittlestrhino.com and you can see these animals up close, in the light of day!

Cheers!

Borneo is a large Island situated in South East Asia, surrounded by the South China Sea, the Sulu Sea,the Celebes Sea, Makassar Strait, Karimata Strait and Java Sea.

Three countries have territories on the Island.
In the north is the Malaysian State of Sabah.
In the north-west is the Malaysian State of Sarawak.
Between the two is the country of Brunei.
In the south is the large Indonesian province of Kalimantan.

The Malaysian mainland in to the west, the Philippines is to the north-east and the Indonesian Islands of Sumatra to the south-west, Java to the south, with other Indonesian islands and provinces to the east and south-east.

Cheers

Anyway sorry for going slightly off topic Kudos to Dicerorhinus, for surviving the adversity and working it for the camera and the worlds press.

I swear when I look at this video, it almost looks staged. I know it isn’t, but my point is that if you took this same footage and put in a sasquatch instead of a rhino, this footage would still be considered suspect. No matter how realistic the Bigfoot seemed, people would still be poring over it trying to figure out if it was faked or not. Yeah, even if it sniffed the camera people might be suspicious and trying to spot things that could be fake. I am sure people would point suspiciously to the way it creeps out of the woods to almost seemingly pose for the camera before walking off. On the other hand, this video could have been dramatically blurrier and shakier and it still would have been embraced as showing a rhino. If it exists, the fact that Bigfoot is bipedal and somewhat humanoid is going to present unique challenges for anyone trying to videotape them.

“Finding” is a relative term. The rhino’s long since been “found” by both the native population and scientists, the former being why it’s in the mess it’s in. Now as to the sasquatch. Many, many people have seen this little needle flitting around. (Go ahead, mental image of something bigger than a gorilla “flitting.” Imagine a tutu. Free of charge; thank me later. ) The problem is, the scientific mainstream seems not to take these data points seriously enough to even consider following them up. There are some organizations (TBRC is one, and maybe the word “some” is an egregious overstatement) with very limited funding doing three and four day expeditions when they can, putting out a few camera traps with what money they can scrounge from their own pockets, and - not even knowing what a bigfoot travel route looks like, or whether a bigfoot will even use one twice - hoping one wants to have his pic taken. (Rhino trails in rainforest: a given. And look how long it took to see them, and longer still to film one.)

LOTS of people see the sasquatch. LOTS. (You know that you can guesstimate several times, at least, the number of people who submit encounter reports.) AND it’s a teeny needle in mulitiple haystacks. Both. Because it’s an invisible animal from science’s point of view. It’s got way too much room to avoid the people who do search, at the times and places they do search. It shows more than enough curiosity about people for TBRC researchers to have a lot of what sound like close encounters. But they haven’t had the technology (most of the time) nor the good luck (when they’ve had it) to bring it to bear for better evidence.

Numerically there may be more squatchers. But they’re covering vastly more territory, getting much less funding per person, and spending far less time on it than paid rhino biologists.

Incidentally, the (one-horned, hairless, hippolike) Sumatran rhino was a “Known” animal to Ivan Sanderson in Living Mammals of the World while Eberhart calls it a cryptid in his Mysterious Creatures. It is also a “Known” species: Eberhart is evidently following information by Willy Ley.

Please don’t think I’m pooh-poohing Sasquatch, just trying to invoke discussion via comparison, playing devils advocate if you will, I think it worked!