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Title: Nashoerner
Author(s): Wieschke, R.
Year published: 1927
Journal: Mitteilungen der Frankfurt Zoo
Volume: 1927
Pages: 5-8, figs. 1-5
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Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
The horns can be used for different purposes. Sometimes the animal uses it to uproot small trees and shrubs, of which he likes to eat the roots, sometimes to clear paths thorugh the forest, and not in the least as a weapon.
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Morphology - Horn
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Wunderlich has shown that the horns can be shed at regular intervals and then grow again. At first the spot where the horn is attached looks like a wound and can be recognized by a lot of blood vessels. The new horn grows again slowly. This has only been witnessed in the Indian rhinoceros, not...
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Captive - Europe
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Black Rhino
One shown since pentecost 1927, 1 yr old male, 'Faru'. It was caught by Christoph Schulz in the former Deutsch-Ost-Afrika [Tanzania]. It plays the whole day with the animals with which it came, a monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans), a young riverhog (koiropotamus porcus daemonis) and a longear-goa...
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Indian Rhino
formerly the zoo had an Indian rhino.
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Black Rhino
One of two animals seen after WWI in this zoo.
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