In the past and even today many people do not know that elephants are also located on the island of Borneo. Initially this was just considered to be a myth because in Dayak Ngaju mite known animal Elephant, Elephant considered animal that has given wealth of gold, diamonds, silver and other precious stones. It is said that first on Alam Up, elephant pierced by Maharaja Bunu use -senjata DUHUNG Dayak Ngaju- to death. Then the elephant blood scattered everywhere and dripped to the ground, blood trickling elephant is transformed into gold, diamond, silver, other precious stones. Carvings of elephants we can find some old betang in Kalimantan, such as elephant carving on the door in the village betang Sekudang, Kab. Lamandau, Central Kalimantan.
In the past people thought elephants in Borneo native of Sumatra island that is a gift to the royal era. Apparently the results of mitochondrial DNA research in Borneo elephant species is different from those in Sumatra. Borneo elephant has a posture that is smaller than its cousin in Sumatra and Africa.
Previously, according to the story of the elderly population of pygmy elephants are scattered outside throughout the island of Borneo, but this time Borneo pygmy elephant populations are threatened by increasing the amount of forest land being converted into a stretch of rubber, oil palm, jabong & sangon. Reported in 2007 there were only about 1,000 elephants. Its population is now found only in parts of North Borneo and some parts of South Kalimantan region Banjarbaru Mandiangin direction.
2. BADAK
As a kid I ever told alm. grandmother when he was a small time period had seen rhinos in the area of Kuala Kapuas. First time I thought my grandmother's story makes no sense, how can the rhino in Borneo, because so far we know only in the Sumatran Rhino. In one 1915 Dutch documentation Area upstream Barito photo collection of Dayak hunters who want to hunt rhino.
This time proved no rhino in Borneo, recently WWF-Indonesia field team managed to find traces of the Sumatran rhino in Borneo. Even managed to get video footage where rhino Kalimantan.
Here animal / creature still limited myths and stories of parents antiquity:
4. TIGER
Tiger in the Dayak language called Haramaung, supposedly these animals do exist in Borneo, even many engravings in carvings Dayak. The author never saw this Haramaung engraving on a statue Sapundu. Until now, evidence of the existence of animals in Borneo Tiger remains a mystery.
Dayak Kenyah people call Tiger Lenjau, antiquity if a husband secured the Tigers game during his wife's pregnant, her child would later become paren or a kind of king, for getting Tiger is very difficult at that time. There are also many Dayak amulet in the past using tiger fangs.
5. HORSE NIL
According to the story the testimony of those old antiquity even in the era of the 1970s the animals as Hippo or known ELEPHANT MINA often appeared on the river and Rungan Barito, Central Kalimantan.
6. BIG SNAKE
This story is also on the experience of my grandfather when he was young and like to hunt in the woods. He never met a very large snake as big as a palm tree. Also there is the story of the snake sightings / dragon in the Dayak language fattened in the Kapuas River. This story I can of late. ku om, om that time when I was a kid many people Area Kuala Kapuas see the curve of the snake is on the Kapuas River.
Even recently as reported by dailymail large snake sightings photo taken by one member of the team monitoring the flood from a helicopter, but so far the authenticity of the photo is still a matter of debate.
Also in the area of Central Kalimantan in 2011 sighting fattened or creature like Dragon in Joloi tumbles. This sighting was photographed by gold miners partially nude body of the dragon, after dragon photographed earlier this ferryman unconscious and oblivious to what happens next. This news was published in Kalteng Post, but the news link has been removed.
Tambun called the likelihood that this is a kind of ancient snake Titanoboa kind that experts say has been extinct and lived about 60 million years ago.
7. THE SHORT
Formerly Short People is a myth and people only know sekitarana Short People are in East Nusa Tenggara. It turns out there is also the legend of Borneo's species Short People, and recently scientists agrees with the existence of short people in NTT since the discovery of the fossils Short People, but experts say Short People are already extinct.
But there are stories from one of the Folks in the area Paser, East Kalimantan in around 1992, when it pamanya new home the night of the law's house on a motorcycle with his wife and children are still toddlers at the time, on a side street he saw a bunch of little people are depriving -cabut some trees at the edge of the woods, but her uncle just passed it, when he got home he took his father recently went to see what was happening, it is not there the dwarf, the few remaining trees are fairly large and is drawn is complete with akar- roots.
