"In Java I had to go forty miles in the eastern part and sixty miles in the western to reach a bit of forest and then I got scarcely anything…This is the land of the two-horned rhinoceros, the elephant, the tiger, and the tapir; but they all make themselves very scarce, and beyond their tracks and their dung, and once hearing a rhinoceros bark not far off, I am not aware of their existence. This is too the very land of monkeys; they swarm about the villages and plantations."
Alfred
Wallace (1861)
The Javan Tiger is extinct and the fossils found date back to 1.2 million years ago. They were hunted for their fur and by the 1940’s they could only be found in mountain ranges. By the early 1980’s, they were gone.
The Javan Rhinoceros is extinct. It was hunted for its horn. Some of these animals were left to bleed to death with their horn missing.
The Monitor lizard is endangered and very amazing. Scientists
did experiments like putting food on a
stake and the Monitor lizard could not
get the food off the steak.
The
Javan python has no poisonous fangs but the way it kills its prey
is it squeezed them to death.