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Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens |
Author(s): |
Newman, E. |
Year published: |
1874 |
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Zoologist |
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(2) 9 |
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3949-3952 |
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Javan Rhino
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Edward Blyth, whose knowledge of Indian Mammalia was unrivaled, and whose death we are still lamenting, published, at p. 8506 of the ' Zoologist' for 1863, the most exhaustive 'Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros' that has ever appeared. He collected every previously printed allus... |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. The skinfolds are of a less massive character and differ very considerably in outline and situation: there is partictilarly a saddle-shaped shield on the neck of Sondaicus of which I see no homologue in Unicornis
The flattened tubercles, which in the hide of Unicornis have been comp... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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Turning again to the ' Zoologist,' it is recorded by Mr. Arthur Adams, at p. 7328 of the volume for 1861, that at Mew Bay, in Java, near the Straits of Sunda, `the ground is literally ploughed up by the tracks of these unwieldy brutes.' The brutes in question beyond doubt this species, Rhinoceros... |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. The tip of the upper lip is pointed and finger-like. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. Was par- ticularly struck with the comparatively slender character of the head, which is much lower in proportion to its bulk than that of Unicornis. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology - Horn
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. The skinfolds are of a less massive character and differ very considerably in outline and situation: there is partictilarly a saddle-shaped shield on the neck of Sondaicus of which I see no homologue in Unicornis
The flattened tubercles, which in the hide of Unicornis have been comp... |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. the back is thickly covered with brown bristle-like hairs; a fringe of similar hairs is also observable on the margin of the ear. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. the back is thickly covered with brown bristle-like hairs; a fringe of similar hairs is also observable on the margin of the ear. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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London Zoo. Was par- ticularly struck with the comparatively slender character of the head, which is much lower in proportion to its bulk than that of Unicornis. |
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